Educator: you must be afraid of technology? – Administrators

The school and the teacher are the basis of social, intellectual and cultural development at the beginning of our training. But we know that these three elements are subject to change with the passage of time. You can not teach with the same methodologies ten years ago. We are constantly changing and the teacher should enhance your knowledge, covering theories, technologies, and other factors that drive education.

 

I have spoken several times about how technological tools can facilitate the work inside and outside of schools. However, this does not mean that this facility be seen by all with good eyes, because there are some professional education area, especially teachers, still do not accept the new technology as a transformative tool in their teaching.

 

This rejection happens often because of lack of knowledge of the educators on how to use the technology to acquire practicality in the process of teaching and learning. And now we enter the conflict many teachers: fear of the new. Fear of being replaced by new technologies and the ease of access to information caused by it. For 20 years, schools and teachers were extremely theoretical and teaching was mechanistic. The function of this educator’s past as dowel really content only has no more space in the current context. That teacher whose methodology today is still the same as before, can be easily replaced by computers, with great advantage to the student and society.

 

You have to accept the changes and make the technology an ally. The teacher’s role is still important to filter a lot of information and transmit the knowledge appropriately for students and especially be the mentor of the student showing the various ways of how to learn.

 

Educational Census conducted by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research (INEP) indicate that most public schools already have at their disposal a number of technologies. However, the presence of these tools do not necessarily mean the appropriate use of them. The truth is that most educators, was instructed not to use digital technologies in the classroom and those who are still in graduation are also not being properly preparados.O main argument of the teachers themselves to explain this difficulty of this room is the inclusion in fear of failing to master the technological resources.

 

In Colombia too, a project developed by the Ministry of Communications, has donated 140,000 computers to six thousand schools, involving 2 million students and 83,000 teachers. A study that compared the schools that received computers with others who were not part of the project, pointed out that differences were identified in students’ learning level. This shows us that not always the problem is the lack of technological resources. It is a deficiency in initial teacher education because the university education schools do not teach about pedagogical innovation.

 

Besides the lack of proper incentives, this lack of knowledge is also a question of mentality. It is the generational gap phenomenon: teachers were not born scanned while their students, yes. There is a natural resistance to adhere to changes and to adapt traditional teaching methods to the new environment.

 

Mark Abellón is CEO of W5 Solutions that created the multiplatform tool Q2L learning