My answer to this question always has been positive. In todays globalization world’s, technology has changed and improved. It emerged with our Daily life. Living without technology is almost impossible. If technology became so common, why do teachers insist on not to use technology?
I chose this topic, because todays technology is really impressing and it can be used for education also. As future teachers, we should adapt ourselves to the further education system. Education is also changing like technology. For example, in Turkey, compulsory schooling was eight years, but now it becomes twelve years. In the past, traditional methods were more dominant than todays’. We should follow the new World new technology. If we cannot keep up with the times, we cannot accomplish our due.
As teachers, one of our responsibilities is making students feel comfortable in classroom in order to get their attention and start the learning process. If we use the technology, we manage it easily. Technology helps us.
For example, if we look at the first pattern of the Gagne’s teaching model, we will see the importance of the attention. The teacher should take students’ attention to teach something. In order to do it, they should use some technological items such as videos, visuals, interesting websites. Thanks to technology, teacher can take students’ attention easily, because students like technology.
All in, of course, still there are some teachers who think that technology is far from instruction, but I am not one of them. I believe that all teachers should adapt themselves to the todays educational needs.
