E-learning2 Part B (sheng zhi)

Wow... it looks like anything that has a flat surface can become a video screen. If I have sunglasses that doubles as a video screen, I will have to train my left eye to look at the screen and my right eye to look at where I am going, then I should be talking simultaneously, that's too much work!

I think as the video shows, there will be gadgets everywhere to feed us with infomation in the future. There will also be people who will be exhausted from all this information handed to them but they have nowhere to hide because even the toiletbowl lid can become a video screen. That's a scary thought.

In the future, learning for students will be about learning itself and not spewing out facts because the tablet pc will do that for them. There could be no paper exams or even no exams at all. Or maybe the exam is a case problem and the students are given one month to solve it by themselves.

I think NIE is preparing us to be teachers that learn how people learn, know how people know and think how people think. I am tempted to impart what I have learnt in NIE to my students about ed psych, ICT, Chem-learning, Maths-learning on top of their knowledge content. Maybe even make that the major part of my teaching and they can learn the knowledge content themselves. I will teach them to be teachers then they can teach themselves. Sounds confusing? I think so too but these are my thoughts so far, probably I will have a clearer picture of how I want to teach when the future is nearer. Hopefully I don't get crushed by restrictions and the cirriculum before the time comes.