How you as a teacher will be learning.

QUESTION 2

Teacher education in learning technologies is essential for teachers to realize technology's full potential in language learning and teaching. Teachers should be equipped by all the latest knowledge of technology that can be used in teaching and learning purposes and can be implemented with reference of the curriculum and the syllabus. There are also many research done that shows the effectiveness of technology-based instruction for language learning. As the students itself had an advanced knowledge with some technology, teacher should have a better knowledge than the students as the teacher should be the one who will transmit the knowledge to the students.
In order to develop the full potential in the learning process of the students, teacher should know the basic technology on how to download certain interesting clips, create a simple video clips or even editing the video or songs that will be suitable for the students’ learning. This will help the teacher to use it as teaching resources in the classroom and bring the students in the wonderful ride of technology in the lesson instead of let the students learn with the traditional methods through chalk and blackboard lesson. For instance, through the movements that appears in the video clips, students can easily learn about verbs, adjective and other language topics. When they were able to see and watch it, they will understand and acquire the knowledge that the teacher tries to transmit. This will eventually make the lesson more productive and enjoyable for the students, especially young learner age between 7 to 9 years old as they would love to see the animation or movements.
Furthermore, we as teacher can also benefited a lot with the help of technology. Besides that saving the time and money to prepare the teaching aids, teacher can also learn how to fully exploit the usage of resources from technology, through out the lesson. Teacher also must have adequate understanding of and appear confidence in various technologies that can be used in the classroom. Besides, teacher should be students’ role model in learning. That is why teacher should shows positive attitudes in front of the students.
In the nutshell, it is important for teachers to have the mastery knowledge of technology or well-known as ICT. It will provide lots of benefit both to teachers as well to the students. As the saying says,
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana