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.