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My future classroom? The discussion on this issue may be unstoppable, since it is something that you want it to be in the future. You may add on something day by day in order to create your dreamed classroom, especially by integrating your classroom with high technology, powerful teaching aids that may sustain students’ interest throughout the lesson. Technology like Smartboard, Macbook, and Wii may be some of the elements that most of us really interested to integrate in their teaching, and I do admit that I may be part of those people. Since all these technologies have the ability to increase the effectiveness of the lesson taught in the classroom, it will be something worth for both the part of the teacher and the students to implement it in their classroom.
Although the word ‘my future classroom may be all about integration of technologies in teaching, we can widen this scope by speaking on the condition of our future classroom. In my opinion, my future classroom must be well-interactive. This means that the interaction is not just limited between students and teacher and students and students, but the scope of interaction can be increased between the learners and the teaching materials used. How can this happen? We can achieve this for instance by using Smartboard in teaching and learning process. Smartboard is one of the latest technologies that enable teacher to increase the participation of students in the classroom. For instance, the teacher may ask students to come in front and choose the correct answer on the spot using the Smartboard. In addition, Smartboard provide variety of interesting teaching and learning activity, for instance online games and quizzes that will create a safe, lively and non-threatening learning environment. Students may also get immediate feedback using the Smartboard, which will be very good in enhancing students’ motivation towards learning. Using conventional paper and pencil exercise, students may have to wait until one week in order to get the feedback from their teacher. At that point, the students may already forget about what they have learnt last week. As the result, students may feel less interested towards the lesson.
In addition, my future classroom should always be in a healthy condition. The atmosphere in the classroom must always be safe and non-threatening, as this has a big impact towards students’ acceptance of the lesson. This is in accordance with the theory proposed by Krashen which emphasizes that a threatening learning environment will increase the affective filter, and eventually result in the negative affects towards the emotions of the students.
In short, a future classroom may be equipped with all the technological stuff but it depends on the readiness of both the teacher and the students to apply and interact with the technology. Hence, it is essential for me as a ‘teacher to be’ to equipped myself with the knowledge in technology so that my vision of having a future classroom that suit with my demands will be achieved.
My future classroom? The discussion on this issue may be unstoppable, since it is something that you want it to be in the future. You may add on something day by day in order to create your dreamed classroom, especially by integrating your classroom with high technology, powerful teaching aids that may sustain students’ interest throughout the lesson. Technology like Smartboard, Macbook, and Wii may be some of the elements that most of us really interested to integrate in their teaching, and I do admit that I may be part of those people. Since all these technologies have the ability to increase the effectiveness of the lesson taught in the classroom, it will be something worth for both the part of the teacher and the students to implement it in their classroom.
Although the word ‘my future classroom may be all about integration of technologies in teaching, we can widen this scope by speaking on the condition of our future classroom. In my opinion, my future classroom must be well-interactive. This means that the interaction is not just limited between students and teacher and students and students, but the scope of interaction can be increased between the learners and the teaching materials used. How can this happen? We can achieve this for instance by using Smartboard in teaching and learning process. Smartboard is one of the latest technologies that enable teacher to increase the participation of students in the classroom. For instance, the teacher may ask students to come in front and choose the correct answer on the spot using the Smartboard. In addition, Smartboard provide variety of interesting teaching and learning activity, for instance online games and quizzes that will create a safe, lively and non-threatening learning environment. Students may also get immediate feedback using the Smartboard, which will be very good in enhancing students’ motivation towards learning. Using conventional paper and pencil exercise, students may have to wait until one week in order to get the feedback from their teacher. At that point, the students may already forget about what they have learnt last week. As the result, students may feel less interested towards the lesson.
In addition, my future classroom should always be in a healthy condition. The atmosphere in the classroom must always be safe and non-threatening, as this has a big impact towards students’ acceptance of the lesson. This is in accordance with the theory proposed by Krashen which emphasizes that a threatening learning environment will increase the affective filter, and eventually result in the negative affects towards the emotions of the students.
In short, a future classroom may be equipped with all the technological stuff but it depends on the readiness of both the teacher and the students to apply and interact with the technology. Hence, it is essential for me as a ‘teacher to be’ to equipped myself with the knowledge in technology so that my vision of having a future classroom that suit with my demands will be achieved.
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