Essay
Question: How can [NA1] schools
make the best
use [NA2] of
information technology [NA3] in
the classroom?
à The interpretation of the
assignment question: Identify 3 main part of the question; Command, Topic and
Focus.
Nowadays, education
pursuant is essential on acquiring the skills required for building a comfortable
living. It means considerably beyond just able to teach a student to read,
write and manipulate numbers[NA4] . With the advent of new technology,
it leads to the development of the technology-based education[NA5] that is more entertaining and gives
more rewarding educational experiences. Such new approach for education offers
vast opportunities in widening the access to various resources and knowledge
base for both teaching input and learning outcomes for teachers and students in
school. Therefore, technology may significantly affects the educational
experiences in school by enhancing the way teachers teach and students to learn.
What really the first order matter is the way to best manipulate the technology
in education so as it able to improve educational experience in school. In order to
achieve the best outcomes from the use of information technology (IT) in
schools, proper workable plans need to be in place to fully integrate IT in all
aspects of curriculum so that it contribute to further enhance the educational
experiences for both educators and their students[NA6] .
The risk of not having a proper plan before the setting up of the
education-based technology is a kind of wasting the money, time and resources.
The implementation of the technology-based education is rather quite expensive
and requires a substantial amount of investment. There are considerable costs
involve to buy IT appliances and equipment for making them ready to start the
educational courses in school. The IT experts also need to be consulted for
proper installation taking place. Hence well-functioning system is able to
perform as desired. Additionally the operations are also costly while the
system maintenance needs to perform on frequent basis on avoiding any possible
breakdown and obsolete in technology. For taking such a substantial amount of
investment at once, proper plan inevitably essential to avoid risk of failure
and loss in investment.
The school’s management has to conduct research of the most appropriate technology
to ensure the good value for money on the technological investment for their
educational purpose is obtained. The bought technology has to be compatible to
the existing expertise and human resources. Unless the school management affords
to hire additional experts to serve the newly built educational aids, the
compatibility issue became less relevance. Randomly buying IT equipment or
software may not be a wise decision since functionality of the system is at
risk. It is a waste to simply owned the most recent technology without having
capacity to use them in assisting the teaching and learning experiences in the
school. The condition as such is wasting of time and resources. Longer time may
be required to adopt and adjust comfortably of using the new technologies that
were randomly purchased for the school. As such, the important aspect to
consider is to conduct proper research on evaluating the technological options that
may yield the best outcomes to enhance educational experiences within the
capacity of school itself. The compatibility may accelerate the adaptation and
adjustment of utilizing technological innovation for teaching and learning
among the teachers and students in the school. Thus, it provides higher probability
of success of incorporating interesting educational experiences for every
lesson in the school.
The anticipation of the possible problems during the implementation
process of the technological-based education needs to be as part of the
school’s plan as well. This way, the staffs and students are fully supported
and well-inform of the desired results from the newly established IT system for
education in the school. The resistant to technological changes among teachers
has to deal effectively by providing extra helps and supports for those who are
unfamiliar with the technologies. The inexperienced in handling the
technologies may limit to achievement of the overall intended outcomes for
technological-based education. As such, training may be required to make sure
teachers are competent in handling the IT equipment for them to enjoy the
teaching and gaining full benefits of obtaining better educational inputs as
outlined for the desired teaching improvements.
In addition, assessment of students’ learning experience is also an
important aspect to consider during the plan. This may provide a yardstick in
relation to the level of technological success in adapting technology for the
education experience by teachers who teach and students who learn using the IT
tools. The better scores in the assessments of students’ experience in their
education through the use of technologies, the more exciting and more rewarding
the knowledge they could benefits by attending the lessons in school. Thus
encourage them to perform better in their academic. For school management, the
results of the assessment provide them an input on their preparation to monitor
the development of students as a result of the technological-based education.
Such inputs also enable the school’s management to adjust the educational
assistance tools accordingly as the necessities may arise. Continuous
monitoring would ensure the effectiveness of the system in place with any
defects could be corrected at the earliest instances they are detected. Thus, avoiding
the risk of failure in technological investment for the school.
It is equally vitally important to incorporate in plan of educating both
teachers and students in relation to the potential and capabilities of
technological assistances provided to them. They should be thought about the
strategies of utilizing the technologies at optimum. The possible danger of
having to unlimited access through online contents by students who got chance
to use technology could be restricted by imposing them certain rules and
regulations upon their access to virtual information. Such provisions should limit them to utilize
the technological facilities only in manners that could bring the most beneficial
for their educational development. By making aware of the context in which they
could have better prospects of dealing with the technological assistant tools,
students are directly learn to appreciate all the potential benefits they could
reap from the learning tools that are most valuable to their educational
purposes.
Nevertheless, the full potential of the technological-based education is
entirely depend on the creativities and imagination of the teachers and
students themselves to utilize the technologies in a way that best suit to them
to enhance their educational experience. The actualization of the full
potential of technological educational tools is imperatively though, started
from the proper initial plan to arrange, structure, implementation and maintain
the IT according to the capacity of a school itself. In complimentary, the competent
handling of the IT tools among teachers, and rules and regulations of IT usage
in place, would formed the best mechanisms to encourage students to accelerate
their adaptation to IT in the way that most beneficial of enhancing their
learning experiences. The success in the incorporation of IT into the classroom
eventually resulting to broaden the minds and experiences for students in
reaping worthy academic experiences for every hour they spend in school.
[NA1](1)
COMMAND of the question: This are command or directing words that tell you what
to do, such as discuss, analyse, compare, critique or evaluate.
Things to accomplish: Tabulate all the command words
for reference.
[NA2](3)
FOCUS of the discussionà
The specific area of the topic that you need to concentrate on. Sometimes there
is more than one focus in a question. This can usually be extending the
strategy suggested in (2) for e.g. Discuss what? In relation of what? In the context of what?
[NA3](2)
TOPIC of the questionà
is the general area of discussion. The topic can be determined by taking the
command word and asking “What” after it. For e.g. Discuss ..what? or
compare..what?. Here the topic is the use of information technology in school/
educational institutions.--> context is in school.
[NA4]Structure: Introductionà The essay
begins with a general lead into the broad topic by indicating the inadequacy of
traditional teaching and bring up the technology to improve the limitation of
the previous system in education.
It sets up a problem that the essay will solve.
[NA5]Structure:
Introduction à
Topic is narrowed by affirming the significant of the IT for teachers and
students.
[NA6]The
final sentence is the THESIS STATEMENT =ARGUMENT. Notice how the beginning of
the sentence is constructed to answer the essay question: the FOCUS; best use;
impliedly ask for the elaboration how best technology be used to help produce
the favourable result afterward of using technology in school.
The essay suggest the early stage of technology use.
The preparation to setup the technology to enhance educational experience in
schools; Stages suggestion could be before/during/ after. This essay
particularly choose to elaborate on initial stage to use IT in school.
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