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Charles Nyakito posted an update in the group
7.3 3 – new things and old ways – will old tactics work with mobile technologies? 9 years, 5 months ago I teach in a Teachers’ College that trains Secondary school teachers in Uganda. The rate at which the possession of mobile devices has proliferated in the recent past poses a great opportunity for the use of the mobile devices for learning purposes. At least 80% of the students possess smart phones, a good number has tablets, MP3 potable media players, cell phones, and others. The possession of these portable devices by students present a good opportunities for teachers to take advantage of them for learning purposes.
The greatest challenge is that teachers tend to use these new mobile devices to teach using the old pedagogy. Ultimately, what’s important in successfully integrating any technology in the classroom holds true with mobile devices: students need to play an active role in learning and receiving frequent feedback, mobile activities need to be grounded in learning materials that require students to critically analyze and create content, and technology needs to connect students to the world outside classrooms. Teachers have to teach using the mobile technology and harness it in the fashion it is meant to be used — interactively.
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You have Saïd it Charles, teachers in fact must use new technologies and Harness it in thé way it is meant to ne used ie interactively , this will d’or sûre engage them and cause
authentic learning.
Accurate analysis Charles, what we need to do as teachers and curriculum developers is to re-align our pedagogical approaches to match with the current technological advances so that we can make use of mobile devices to enhance learning. in this way we shall avoid substitution but rather move on to augmentation and even re-definition.
how I wish that possession of those technology gadgets would be true with primary and secondary. it would do the same to those teachers too.
Charles,
Am of the same belief that the new can work with the old ways. Just wanted you to reflect over the following questions:
-What are the old ways in teaching?
-What are the old ways in learning?
Despite the proliferation of devices think what is vital for new vs old to work is much more emphasis on how the two should be streamlined/ integrated to achieve the expected goals.