The word question is essential to learning. A learner asks questions and seeks answers. Questioning leads to deeper understanding and increased knowledge. Questioning is essential to growth. We ask question to others so as to acquire information regarding a topic or a subject.It is like gathering fine flowers and fruits from the garden of knowledge, every flower got varied fragrance, every fruit holds new taste. So in continuation of my theme questioning I would like to raise the question “how technologies can affects teacher and teaching”.
In simple words we can say teacher is the individual who imparts education and teaches us. And for education we can relate it to something that helps in achieving numbers and grades in our due course of academics. With reference to the term “Pedagogy”, we can conclude that teacher is the individual who uses instructive strategies and set learning goals for student and himself.
We can also define teacher, without the hardliner border of terms and concepts, teacher is the medium between us and the education as teacher act as a catalyst for our every step taken towards education. One who tries to diminish our incapability and makes us realize our potentials.Teacher is the person who communicates with people of different group and languages but still speaks the lingua franca.
We are not trying to limitize the role of a teacher but in this ever changing world of technology, there is a new phrase added to the teacher “tech efficient”.If we look at Alpha Centauri, our nearest star, we are looking at what happened 4 years ago, as the light took 4 years to reach from its source to our eyes due to “Distance”. We don’t want our teacher to be “Alpha Centauri” and the “Distance” depicts the technological difference between the generations.
Even if in some field teachers are not accountable,still we don’t want to run in same pace as our earlier generation of teachers and students.The pedagogy should be intertwined with the current scenario of education and technology.Teachers are getting aware of advanced teaching aid like e-learning,blogs,innovative devices for classroom but we are still in a safe learning traditional environment, where teachers are teaching and learning but they are not successful in implementing the process they have acquired. The teacher is the link between inter generational concepts of education and if they are getting stronger means, we are realizing a new reform in education. Accordingly it should be a blend between traditional approaches with the technology. Whatever the end product will be, will it be fruitful or some other hoax of development in the field of education?
