About Philosophy
I am not
quite familiar with “philosophy”, since I am a science student from high
school. So I googled it and wished that could help me understanding this
concept deeply. Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems,
such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason,
mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing
such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance
on rational argument. The word “philosophy” comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia),
which literally means “love of wisdom” （from Wikipedia）.
And talk
about educational technology, I would like to say that it is going to be more
important in the education field. Since we have internet all over the world, we
can do things that were never expected. Like now, we can have classes online in
everywhere. I could still remember that when I was in high school, I broke my
leg by an accident so I had to stay at home for two months. That was a dark
time, high school is the most important period during a student life, it
impacts a student’s future, and I missed part of it. Teachers would not give
you a private tutor, so I could only learn by myself and call my friends for
help. Otherwise, I can take classes online in my home, discuss with classmates
or professor in email. Also, my favorite subject of mathematics is geometry, it
asks students can image how a function turns into a graph. Last year I learned
how to use Mathematica to graph on computer, however, I have actually learned
Mathematica in my college in China. But I did not know how to use it until last
year, because it was just in our textbook and we learned it even without
computers. So it reminds me that only textbook is not enough, it is better for
us can practice in reality.
I do not
know how to define my educational technology philosophy, I am not an idealist
usually, but I do believe that where there is a will, there is a way.
Technology is a great result of humans’ wisdom, it will have no limit.
About Stephen Downes' article
I have to say that this article is very impressive. I cannot
imagine that all things about blog happened like this early. There was a
computer class in my middle school in 2002, everyone in that class had an Apple
laptop were supposed to study with. Obviously, the time that they played CS was
more than studying. Also, internet was little interesting for us, I did not expect
that it could be such popular today.
In my opinion, there are 3 possible reasons for students
in China or teachers did not accept this educational method.
Firstly, some of parents are not allowed students use
internet. They think there are lots of unhealthy information on it and students
are teenagers that cannot identify which is meaningful and which is
meaningless. And they cannot focus on study online, there are full of advertisement
of games, videos, or commodities popping out.
Second of all, there will be some unsafe factors on the
internet. Since our blogs are allowed to be visited publicly, there may be some
people staring your blog with unusual purposes, which makes people afraid to
post what they are really thinking about.
Thirdly, most students do not have time after finishing
their daily homework. There is a sentence popular in China, children cannot
lose in the beginning of their life. That means, children have to learn almost
everything from a very young age. Even finish the homework of school, they have
to do lots of extra practices out school. All we do before college is doing all
kinds of exercises about College Entrance Examination.
I have a dream that one day we do not have to learn all
about examination but about what we are really interested in.
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