To tell the truth my mouth was open when I was watching those
children. Definitely they know much more about new technology than most
Armenian adults. Yes, they are our future for sure. That is really great when
school children can use new technology for their classes. As I remember many of
those kids have different type of class assignments connected with the internet
that was very motivating. We should accept one very significant fact that our
children do not want to study using old type of methodology at schools. They
want to use their creativity, their own style and new things. New technology
can give them such opportunity.
The traditional way of teaching does not have
such value nowadays and we future teachers should take into consideration that.
But it does not mean that we should not use books or board for writing any
more. All those kids are curios to learn new things this fact stroke me most of
all. Many of them help even their teachers or their parents to design personal
websites. Of course, in Armenia the picture is completely different. Many
children do not have personal computers at home which they can use for their
learning. While introducing
his book ‘The World is flat’ Tomas Friedman mentions that people can work
together with the help of new technology. More people could collaborate no matter where they live
geographically. So we can consider this to learning as well. People even can
learn languages with the help of new technology. When he talks about ten
flatteners he mentions several times that nowadays it is impossible to imagine
life without new technology .We should be aware of new things and all those new
things we can use not only in our daily life but during classes as well. In
conclusion I would say that Tomas Friedman`s ideas can impact on us as future
teachers greatly. As he says we can discover something accidentally the same
thing can happen even during our classes. Link for the 1 st image : http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/11/29/1322586940401/Children-in-the-digital-a-007.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2011/nov/30/sponsored-roundtable-lift-digital-age-barrier&h=276&w=460&sz=21&tbnid=YO-jOx99Jqz7BM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=142&zoom=1&usg=__Bml1LmS81kQ6NHE8tjHiNznmlA8=&docid=TPx8ziHJgXyRhM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=10uIUIHvJuqiiAfYvoD4DA&ved=0CD0Q9QEwCg&dur=302
Link for the 2nd
image: http://www.google.com/imgres?start=388&hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=hJEnYSJNFVeV6M:&imgrefurl=http://www.thelandofme.com/blog/2011/3/17/how-has-technology-changed-childhood-in-the-21st-century.html&docid=-Yu2-r1TYx2QPM&imgurl=http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/1111162/13572705/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-01-at-14.54.07.png&w=500&h=330&ei=I4i_UKeNNI_4mAWIpYHwAg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=594&vpy=348&dur=1382&hovh=182&hovw=276&tx=126&ty=104&sig=109605187291664981752&page=15&tbnh=139&tbnw=214&ndsp=7&ved=1t:429,r:91,s:300,i:282
