Rough draft of technology philosophy

Rough draft of technology philosophy

1.       Philosophical school of thought you subscribe to

For me, philosophical school of thought should be free at first. This free means their mind, I want all the students could be themselves. Admittedly, there is only one Bill Gates in the world, there is only one Steve Jobs in the world, I do not expect my child could be one of the top in the world. But I truly wish that my child could be one of the happiest people in the world. I would like to make him/her having their own idea about this world, and I wish they could speak out other ways than books. Free is easy to say bur hard to do. I read a story these days, it was written by a mom who just sent her daughter to a primary school for 1 month. That was is real story, and it happened to her and will happen to other parents in China. One day she sent her girl to school and saw her girl went to school with other children by walking in a straight line one by one. Before get into this school, this mother prepared all most all things that this school asked in a printed paper, which labels that all the students have to prepare the same bagpack, the same pencil, the same notebook, even the same shoes. However, this prepared girl still got punished because her shoes were not white as others, which made her really upset and humiliate. This mother got confused, should she send her little girl to this school after all? My recommend is no, please give this girl a freedom space. She is too young to afford this.

Second of all is communication. As human beings, we cannot write but we have to speak. A good communication could make the things go through smoothly. Our teachers more care about how much score we get in the examinations, but not how much we learned and keep them in mind. Sometimes I do not know why I have to learn this, and this negative idea makes me do not want to learn it anymore. I know we cannot satisfy every student in the school, but we could try to let them know why they should learn it at least. This is asked communication, which could make both students and teachers be more positive and understandable.

2.       Role you see technology playing in your classroom, school, and/or workplace to empower you and those around you via informating (see course notes)

I am a mathematics student right now, and what I have learned using technology is mathematica 8.0, which is an awesome software to solve math problem. And after this class, I learned there are tons of way to use Google, Wiki, Blog and podcasting. Before this class, I thought eCourse is just a course that professor and students connect to each other via emails. But now, I learned that I could build my own blog in the internet and speak myself out. Especially, after this week I learned that Google has lots of applications that would help me with my work and study, I will try it in the future and if I have chance I wish I could introduce it to my friends and students.

So I think technology is playing a more and more important role nowadays. Because of internet we have no nationwide, no racist, and no generation gap. This is a good way to help parents and children or teacher and students work together, everyone can express themselves freedom.

Although I know every good thing has its bad aspect. The internet is convenient but also dangerous. All kinds of information go through it, how to identify them is a big problem. Even I learned some way to tell whether they are formal or fake, I am not sure I could recognize it every time. Hopefully, I could share my information with others, my friends or students, it may be helpful.

3.       Views on teaching, learning and education/training.

View on teaching, I do not really know about teaching. It is a huge thing for me, I think teaching is more like to show the teacher’s own philosophy to students. Whether you want or not, it does impact students’ thinking. I heard that a teacher who does not like fractions was teaching fractions in a very negative mood, and then the students did not do very well at that part in the exam. That teacher told us, after that she does not do this anymore, because it is a huge thing to pass the negative power to students.

View on learning, I am still a student now, so I guess I could say something from my view. I usually do not like to participate in a procedure, and I would like to learn what you write on the board and say this will in the exam. Last semester, I had a statistics class with only 4 classmates and the professor said we could teach each other this semester. Which means that we had to prepare the class ourselves and we would try to explain it to others in the class, that was fun. I prepared thoroughly, since I had to prepare both statistics and my English. But I have to admit I love to be involved, and I have a big progress.

View on education, I am not familiar with this part. After all this course, I feel I still have a lot of thing need to learn and I am proud of learning so much high-tech methods with computer. I regret that I used to treat internet as a game center or entertainment, I knew it is powerful but I never thought it could do almost everything. Although this is only an ecourse, but I made lots of friends and learned lots of real world skills. I will keep trying in the internet and see if I could use in the future.