How teachers learn technology best
When going through the article, I connected with how we as adult learners are trying to grapple with technology today.
The provision of the computers at the Resource Centre and at home was just not enough to get us started. The intermittent use of laptops and projectors by the faculty was not motivation enough. We viewed the submission of soft copies of the assignments as an unnecessary burden. Our perception was also that technology is a distinct subject to be learnt [and later taught] without trying to realize that technology is the delivery system for sound curriculum and student learning. The challenge lay here. The workshop persuaded us to embark on the highly personalized learning journeys to become responsible for our learning. After exposure we needed time to learn on our own. Team learning and support by the mentor provided the necessary environment that spurred us to move forward. Online learning and the resource support staff proved crucial. Therefore, it was not the provision of the physical infrastructure, but the enabling conditions that prove to be our Messiah.
Our own learning experience corroborates what the article talks about i.e. that it is adult learning strategies that help the teachers to learn, grow and accept technology as an integral part of the teaching-learning process.
The provision of the computers at the Resource Centre and at home was just not enough to get us started. The intermittent use of laptops and projectors by the faculty was not motivation enough. We viewed the submission of soft copies of the assignments as an unnecessary burden. Our perception was also that technology is a distinct subject to be learnt [and later taught] without trying to realize that technology is the delivery system for sound curriculum and student learning. The challenge lay here. The workshop persuaded us to embark on the highly personalized learning journeys to become responsible for our learning. After exposure we needed time to learn on our own. Team learning and support by the mentor provided the necessary environment that spurred us to move forward. Online learning and the resource support staff proved crucial. Therefore, it was not the provision of the physical infrastructure, but the enabling conditions that prove to be our Messiah.
Our own learning experience corroborates what the article talks about i.e. that it is adult learning strategies that help the teachers to learn, grow and accept technology as an integral part of the teaching-learning process.
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