Technology into my teaching??

Spend a little time thinking about your role as a teacher scholar. Write about practical ways you might incorporate technology into your pedagogy and research to take yourself in new directions or to reenergize your established practices.
Set a few small technology-based goals for yourself for the upcoming academic year.
Before deciding which pedagogy for classes, teachers should think about goals for the class. What do you want to accomplish? What do you want students to learn from your class? Technology is a useful tool to facilitate teaching somehow. I have ever heard one teacher told to her students. “If students don’t know some pieces of information, many teachers may say, “ Googling” When I heard that, I was so confused and wanted to question about the functions of teachers in the class. If your answer is just one single word, then most students already know the answer. Why do they need to be here?

Internet pedagogy is becoming so popular in Taiwan. Many teachers ask students share their personal experience or their works on Internet or in public place because of global audiences- real audience? From teacher’s perspective, yes, students can exchange their information via blog or Internet, meet friends, collect feedback from peer’s and etc.. However, if students feel uncomfortable about this activity, do they have a right to say NO? I don’t want to post my work to public? I am sort of interested in this question for a long time.

I would like to bring up the second thought of applying technology in literacy teaching. Definitely, technology is an efficient tool in the class. Students can write for global audiences not only teachers; they also can read in a wide range of topics and research many resources. Simply just surf the Internet, students can find out much information or maybe “their knowledge”. However, just heavily rely on resources from Internet shallows our thoughts. For example, many students may spend one-two minutes for one page and go on next. They basically skim the information and may not read through it critically since they don’t want to stick to one page for a long time and read it and think it or even reflect their thinking. Second, after reading few pieces of information, readers may think that “ I probably can be a doctor as well since I can research or terminology from Internet and I can consult any symptom I have from Internet.

Another problem is that many students create their or new language in chat room. Where is Standard English which many teachers consider in the classroom? Some words such as ORZ, IBM draw their attention immediately. I found out that many students write fragment sentences or grammar; however, it may cause a big problem because as long as they cultivate this writing behavior, they may gradually change their writing style.

I am not trying to persuade that teachers should apply technology into the classroom because one coin has two sides. It may optimize one purpose and not others. How can we adjust and adopt technology pedagogy into your classroom. We should contextualize our teaching method with your institution and out local context.