TECHNOLOGY AND THE CLASS

                                         REFLECTION ON WEEK-NINE

We are just a week away for our final week of the course. I wish the course had gone longer. Anyway I applaud them whoever say “every great thing comes in small package.” Otherwise why I am feeling as I got more and profound than a long yearly academic course? OR why I feel as my classes these days have been more effective and participatory than before?

As a teacher we have been approaching our students in multiple ways. Some of these approaches were coincidentally innovative, but in most of the cases teaching methodologies are predominantly monolithic and traditional. Books are the ultimate resource, you can’t turn anywhere around, was the notion. Saying it we can’t overlook the importance of textbook in our spatial-temporal location. Even in the highly digital world, the fun and scope of the book can’t be minimized. But when we ponder on the issue of teaching and learning, gigantic but mostly unexplored, still incredible potentiality of technology is distinct. That is the ultimate resolution of this course.

Talking about nine week; we had a huge task to be completed i.e. project report. Our initial concept on project and its gradual development up to eight week has been systematically catapulted in the report. My project report basically intends to enhance writing competency of the students through blogs, email and wallwisher. Initial feedback of the students is pretty encouraging. Students are posting their post and comment in a regular basis. This is how I am communicating the importance of learner’s autonomy to my students. Proper communication and establishment of Learner’s autonomy indeed is inevitable to increase the motivation of students.

At the same time, it’s high time we got to foster Gardner’s idea of multiple intelligence. According to Gardner learning is both a social and psychological process. If so learning and understanding of the ideas are determined by several such factors, and intelligence which is customarily measured in a one dimensional measuring rod can't avoid the ultimate flaws inherent with in it. To borrow Garder's idea each individual has nine intelligence  If so our "universal standard of intelligence" can't be compatible to foster these "intelligences", and to better harbor and recognize these intelligences we need to incorporate technology. So to ignite the multiple intelligences of our students we need to incorporate technology in our class. Thanks to Oregan and thanks to our course instructor Donna for making us realize it.