1. article: Three Trends That Define the Future of Teaching and Learning
I found this article on the blog which is called MindShift. Its author, Tina Barseghian, is a journalist and - as she mentions - the mother of a grade-schooler. Her blog explores the future of learning mostly in the context of cultural and technology trends.
The 3 trends that will define the future of teaching and learning can be abbreviated as CTB - Collaborative, Tech-powered and Blended. Let's explore these trends one by one.
Collaborative means sharing information and connecting with others. You can do this easily with social networking sites as well as with open-source sites and you can even be collaborative when you are offline using team-teaching and professional learning networks organised by schools. The advantage of collaborative learning and teaching summarises the veteran educator Chris Lehmann from the Science Leadership Academy: “If you’re teaching something that’s usually bland and you insert a simple tool that allows students to connect with each other or their peers in other schools and countries whenever they want, you just see kids’ faces light up.”
Tech-powered is not only about using various gadgets and aps in the classroom, but it also means to teach your students how to operate and create them. Students can also make digital portfolios to show their progress which may be faster and more interesting for them than writing piles of papers for hours and hours.
Tina explains blended learning as combining computers with traditional teaching. The way how to do it is left up to the teacher. You can assign some projects to be done at home or you can have your computer time directly in class or you can combine these two ways. Blended learning saves also money on books and supplements.
The whole article to be found here: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/
2. article: Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say
This article was published on The New York Times websites and its author is Matt Richtel. He presents two surveys which were conducted on the topic of technology influence on child's attention. On one hand, the outcomes of the studies may not be reliable enough since the findings represent the subjective views of teachers who were interviewed, however, on the other hand, such data are significant because teachers are very close to the students and spend hours a day observing them. As a premise for the research might be taken the findings of Vicky Rideout who has shown that teenagers aged 8 to 18 spend twice as much time with screens each year as they spend in school. Such exposure to digital technology may hamper the attention spans of children and their ability to hold on when doing a more challenging task.
And this is exactly what the majority of teachers agreed on in the survey - they said that more and more they feel like an entertainer who has the hard task to capture and hold child's attention. However, most of the teachers perceive technology as a useful educational tool with a positive impact on student's researching abilities. The other side of the coin is that digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.
The whole article to be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/education/technology-is-changing-how-students-learn-teachers-say.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
3. article: New trends in teaching that make learning fun
This article was published on the websites of dna which is an English broadsheet launched in Mumbai. The author of the article says that big bags full of text books and notebooks are not "in" anymore. He stresses the importance of schools as they are powerful institutions with the ability to shape and change one's mind. The schools may have their limitations, however, the author proposes two fundamental bricks which should constitute their credo and that is experience and technology.
Following Confucius who said: "What I hear I forget, what I see I remember and what I do I understand," the feeling process would definitely make the learning process more enjoyable and the gained knowledge more stable. Moreover, giving practical examples is another way of making the learning experience more close to the real life. The use of videos, films or technology in general also positively fosters one's learning.
The whole article to be found here: http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/1291890/report-new-trends-in-teaching-that-make-learning-fun
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