Sunday, 18 March 2012
Our Blindness
Last week I went to church, the priest's sermon was about how Jesus healed a blind man. The moral of the story is much more than Jesus can heal people. It is how people today are blind to the world. We all need to accept change because the world is forever changing. Nowadays our elders are not aware and couldn't be bothered to learn about the new technology as they find it is difficult to accept this change. They hear about devices like ipods, ipads and social networking sites such as facebook and tweeting, but still many decide to ignore these new technological devices and social networking sites. We are taught in education that we need to change lessons once we try them and modify them afterwards to make improvements. However, there are still a lot of teachers that present the same lesson year after year without any changes. Since it worked 40 years ago, teachers figure it is still a good lesson today. This is not the case, a lot has changed over the past 40 years, therefore we need to modify our lessons and make them relative and up to date to with the world today.
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This is very true. Our lessons need to fit our students needs and our students will be different from year to year. Using the same lessons every year without changing them to fit the needs of our students is not effective.
ReplyDeleteI agree lessons need to be updated almost every time they are presented. I remember when I was in elementary school I had some teachers that used those overhead projector scrolls. Basically they had a scroll of plastic with all of the notes on it and they every new unit had it's own scroll or set of scrolls and the teacher would just switch them out and present the same material over and over again. At the time I thought it was a good idea but now I realize the diservice those teachers were doing us students.
ReplyDeleteGood post, Dylan. We need to change how we teach, not simply because there are new tools that can be used (blogs, wikis, YouTube, etc.), but because we were doing (and many still are) isn't effective.
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