TEACHERS MUST MASTER THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY

NANCY S. BASILIO

Teachers must not only new physical technology but new psychological technological. I guess the most immediate example of physical technological devices would be computers. Teachers must enhance their own capacity to deliver on teaching particular subjects, but also they a can help young people become proficient at the use of new technologies as they are entering a world where what has been novel and new to us in the latter part of the 20th century will be common place in the 21st Century

In terms psychological technology we must think faster in order to keep up with developments that in front of us on an ongoing basis from the microwave oven to cable channels on televisions, to up linking and downlinking in satellite technology. And our response time to events that occur in front of us on an ongoing basis has to be a lot faster that it had to just a couple of decades ago.

Therefore, even if we are not instructors of science and technology, higher math, or the use of developing machinery, we must be on top it enough to be able to interpret what young people will be encountering now for the rest of their lives, and certainly for all their children’s and their children’s lives.

If teachers are going to be on the cutting of this things that are occurring worldwide, that we must be two of three steps ahead of our students, even if the subject that we are teaching is music. I guess that I shouldn’t even say even if in the case of music because there are new technologies us essential to assisting young people in the primary grades as their mastery of machinery technology must be born out of a firm foundation to which they have been introduced at a very young age. We teach technology through our use as well as through our concern for youth.

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The author is Teacher III at Sta. Rita Elementary School, Sta. Rita District