This week I
can feel what teaching or learning would be with the coming generations. With
the trend of autonomy we are experiencing in every sector, from education, to
media and other sectors I feel a free generation coming. Even today, we are no
more in a time where the only news available is what aired by official radios
and televisions. Today, we select what we want to read, listen or watch. In
other words we build our opinion with resources of our choice. In the future,
students will build their careers according to what they want as resources. The
time when the teacher is the only master is old now and must help students and
learners to acquire autonomy. That’s what I call preparing students for tomorrow’s
challenges.
I believe teachers are no longer the centre of the universe. Teachers are helpers, they are the ones who facilitate knowledge. In technology students generally know more than teachers. We can exploit that part and feel that students can help us acquire the knowledge we do not have.
ReplyDeleteELena
Yves, your are right. And ultimately a teacher is more then just about the subject s/he teaches. We can also weave in life lessons. My best teachers did not limit themselves to the content of the class, but showed me how what I could become in the world somehow. -Robert
ReplyDeleteThanks Elena and Robert, i learn a lot when engaged in a class with students interactions!
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ReplyDeleteYa I totally agree that the best teacher is one who is not a sage on the stage but promotes autonomous learning. Teachers in my context are so used to teacher-centered classrooms but the time is changing and soon, I hope, that the teacher will changed soon.
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