Sakinah's Elearning 2 Part B

The first impression that came across my mind after watching iN2015 is honestly something like this: Is this for real? I don’t think it’s going to happen so soon. That will be like 6 more years so how can things move that fast?

Oops! I know it’s a very pessimistic view and very shallow. I’m very guilty of that. The thing is I failed to see the big picture of the whole thing. The thing is I failed to realize that things HAVE been moving very fast. Technology has been changing and advancing at a speed never before occurs in history of mankind.

Technological advances have caused a change in many aspects of life. From the way people communicate and connect to each other to the way people learn and observe from the surroundings. I think the way students learn will be very different as compared to 10 years ago. The students craved for other things. They want it fast, exciting, thought-provoking and relevant. The same goes to their learning in school. They don’t want it to be linear and one –way. They want it to be interactive and energetic; like how fast everything is changing. If they don’t see the relevance in it, they simply would not be interested in it.

NIE is doing a fine job in preparing future teachers. Maybe not fully but hopefully the teachers get the gist and CHANGE the way they teach. It may be very hard even for me, since we’ve been brought up in a different kind of technological advances. It may be hard because it has been hard-wired in our minds that there is only certain typical ways to teach. I hope as a teacher I will make my class more interactive and thought-provoking. They want immediate feedback. So hopefully I can incorporate that in my teaching. I shall respect their different ways of learning and not see it as a problem.

I hope I can understand their different ways of learning and adapt towards it.