Some time ago, I had a discussion with my friend on teaching and learning
in class. He pointed out something which struck me precisely at my blind spot
on my perception on teaching and learning. Connectedness with the content
matter will be severely missing if emotional factor was taken out of the
content. How true this was! Given a choice between watching a movie, playing
sports, chatting with friends to attending a typical lesson in classroom,
majority would have went for the former three instead of latter. This is
because, at the end of the day, we human beings are species with emotions and
feelings. Students may not be able to intellectually comprehend the subject
matter, but emotions and feelings might be able to bridge this gap! This factor
was like a missing puzzle piece to the problems and challenges that we brainstormed
during the class. Now, the question lies how do we incorporate emotions such as
fun, touching, inspiring, exciting etc into our learning?
It will be human factor when the students love the class, not
technology. But, technology could pretty much play an important role to foster
the touch of the heart.
I agree with you, Ng, technology is important but not everything, we as teacher must always remember technology could be the best assistant but not the protagonist. Do not let our class icy cold like technology, we have to put our efforts in toughing our students' heart by using high technology. (#8)
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