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Essay on A Teacher: Person or Computer
With the aid of technology, many teachers can take students beyond traditional classroom limits, creating virtual environments to experiment and explore. According to Postman (1996), technology should be utilized as an object of inquiry. We should be aware of how we might use technology and also how technology uses us. Some technologies are particularly helpful because their design characteristics challenge higher order thinking and problem solving tasks; students are encouraged to explore and to learn by discovery.
Computer-assisted technologies in schools offer students greater access to information, an eager motivation to learn, a jump-start on marketable job skills and an enhanced quality of class work.
Computers have also provided various synchronous discussion methods. Video-conferencing through internet, which has been successfully used in the past at many schools, is a method where remote computers can be linked and allow participants to talk and view to, each other in classroom. With the help of this technology, teachers are conducting remote guest speaker sessions for students. Internet relay chat softwares, such as NetMeeting, allow users to form discussion groups for synchronous chats.
Computers help teachers to develop interactive and creative teaching tools that present information in all the ways students really learn and think.
According to teachers advantage of having computer-assisted instruction in the classroom is that the computer can serve as a tutor.............
