Hi everyone,
This week we have read
articles mostly dealing with benefits of using technology for instruction. The
most important is we had to write a technology-enhanced lesson plan. Let me
honestly tell you that I have never written lesson plans at our university; I
learned how to write lesson plans when I was a university student. Actually, we
do have lesson plans but they are the intrinsic ones, in our mind and we do not
need to submit the plans to the university academic section. We know what we
are going to do in a class because we have relied on course descriptions which
we have to set contents accordingly. Mostly, we are encouraged to produce
instructional materials by ourselves.
The lesson plan model of
the College of Education, University of South Carolina directs me to be
more professional in my career. My technology-enhanced lesson plan proposed in
nicenet might not be best because I have never used the Internet for my
teaching. However, it is my first step for further plans. I do agree that
planning the instruction is much more difficult than delivering the
instruction as mentioned in "Lesson plans" from http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html
I think the new generation of
teacher of English should take technology-enhanced lesson plan into
consideration since they are surrounded with technologies. Perhaps they can
easily apply them to language instruction. What do you think?
Best,
Arifeen
Hi Arifeen,
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you're taking little steps towards using the Internet in class. But even though I'm teaching this class, I'm still a firm believer in "old-fashioned" technology (the blackboard and overheads) as well! There is a time for everything.
Jodi