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Never stop learning. Learning is an ongoing process, so you have to be updated because there are many things you don't know when you learn something.

Community based learning projects

  Community based learning is an innovative way to get our students involved in the different issues that surround them in their community. Schools affect the society and are greatly affected by it. So the role of educators is so important in making that link between the curriculum and the community to apply what is taught and make the necessary change around them.
     Educators need a lot of training and flexibility to bring what they teach to the real world and to have their students'hands on what should be done. The "aha" moment that came to me yesterday is that we need a self-confident generation to go on with the world and to be able to solve their problems on their own. They have to be ready for that great mission for the future. I think that community based learning helps greatly in forming that future generation as it helps them find the problems, analyse them, study their causes and find solutions.
 On the other hand it helps them learn through actions (by doing) and hence keep their knowledge in their memories forever. 

Our kids are our futureOur kids are our future

Our kids are our future. One day we will have to sit back and leave the lead to them. So we have to think over the way we teach them or the way we build up their characters. We have to bear in mind that we learn from each other and that co-operation makes learning better and easier. The "aha" moment that I came across was  the group work that we practiced in our session and the wonderful ways that these groups can be formed upon. Besides fun, group work provides a chance for shy students to share their knowledge with their classmates in a safe atmosphere.It creates mutual understanding and respect among group members and foster democracy while performing a certain task. It also helps them work to certain rules followed in the class.
  I think that I can apply active and collaborative learning in all my classes no mater which grade I'm teaching.   I have to bear in my mind that my students are my future leaders and decide what kind of leaders I need for the future; democratic, flexible, cooperative, courageous, caring, thoughtful etc. I have to work hard to help my students be those leaders. I have decided to apply group work in my classes to achieve my goal. 

technology and teaching

   Modern technology can help us motivate our students to learn.The session we had about the different usage of modern technologies in our classrooms was so inspiring. We all complain that our students have mobile mania. the struggle we face in class is to stop them from using their mobiles during the lesson.What We learnt from the previous lesson is how to make our lessons interesting and appealing to our students. Students can use their mobiles for taking shots and writing comments on them these shots can be from the community they live in. They can record a part of the lesson and they can even make a movie. The "aha' moment i that session was that modern technologies can be teaching aids instead of being disruptive tools.

   I have decided to use modern technologies within my classroom besides using the internet. I can ask my students to take a shot with their mobiles and write a composition about it. Using videos can be an incentive for students to learn instead of the textbook. Some of us may say that their schools are not well equipped, but very simple and cheap technologies can be used. In the past , it was a must to go to the multimedia lab. to teach a lesson using modern technology,but there is no excuse for teachers to ignore using modern technologies in there classrooms. 

Using Technologies

   It is my first time to use the blog. It came after I had attended the last session in which we got through different uses of modern technologies in our classrooms. It was agreed that teachers themselves must be motivated to be able to motivate their students to use these technologies in their learning process. Our discussion was so fruitful that it empowered me to move forward and challenge my limited abilities in using these technologies. Here I am using the blogger.
 
     The use of modern technologies is so various. I can use educational movies in teaching my students about global problems like "Global Warming", "Pollution" and so on.Students can use their mobiles in serving the learning process instead of disrupting it. They can record a conversation, a group work task, a pair work task or making interviews with other people. In addition to that, students can surf the internet to get to know about different topics. Students can create a movie  or document different things.