Everything can happen…
Who is afraid of giving classes in the computer lab? There are thousands of teachers who feel afraid of these experiences (including me), why? These are some of the reasons I've listen to:
- The students have better computer skills than me: what if they have a question I cannot answer?
- The students break some equipment
- There are no enough computers so the ones who have no access to the equipment just loose their time
- The students were not working! Or even worse, they were playing games or searching for porn
- I cannot see what they are doing and I cannot control their work…
These are the common fears I’ve heard from teachers. I used to be very worried about taking my students to the lab but not anymore. I believe that these situations can happen in any class and not only in the computer lab. In any class, a student can ask for things we have not idea how to answer, they can break school property, they may have no material and be wasting their time. There are always students who are not working but doing something else and we, as teachers, cannot really control everything they do!
We must be ready for anything… Everything can happen! I believe that the best solution is to well prepare our classes knowing that they will not be perfect (we must be flexible!) We must think about our students and try to prevent different circumstances that could present.
What do you think?
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E-tools into the classroom pose new challenges for teachers. Here are some tips:
• Assess available instructional technologies. In other words, make sure that you have the adequate equipment, a reliable server and links that can deal with high traffic.
• Book the computer lab in advance
• Show the basic technical protocols used in the task;
• Prepare step by step instructions and follow them with your students
About the work itself I recommend preparing an activity that takes into account appropriate levels of difficulty, to set easy goals that can show results at the end of a period (to provide feedback), to include a clear plan and evaluation criteria and to explore learning strategies regarding E-learning. After reading all this stuff maybe you feel overwhelmed, but you do not have to; summarizing the recipe is to determine the learning outcomes, to identify learning experiences, to match them to appropriate available E-tools, to prepare for delivery and to evaluate.
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