Technology Teaching
I think this is an age of technology. It's so convenient for eveyone to access any high-tech equipment every day. When I take advantage of the convenience the technology brings to my life, I deeply appreciate the age I am in.
In teaching, I think it's good to use technlogy in the classroom. The students I teach are all about teenager. They spend a lot of time in internet everyday. If teaching can connect technolgy, I think they will be so interested in learning from it. Nowadays, though our school have enough money to change each classroom's technology equipment, I know they try hard to work on the goal of it.
It takes time to change the exterior equipment; meanwhile, teachers still need to equip themselves to be ready to use technology in thier teaching. They need to prepare themselves about as much professional technology as possbile to meet students' demand in learning specific field of knowledge from technology.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
My future dissertation
My Future Dissertation
I might focus on the research of narrative writing in compostion class. As a second language learner and teacher, I know how boring the traditional writing class is no matter when I was a student to learn it or a teacher to teach it. I think the point lies in the topic of writing is too far away from the learner's life experience. Thus, I am interested in discussing the possibility and importance of teaching narrative in ESL writing classroom.
To teach narrative in ESL writing classroom might be a very controversial issue for the narrative is not treated as the acadmic writing. I will based on Bakhtin's viewpoint to go against the anti-narrative's argument that the validity of narrative is questionable.
I think this is an interesting field which I might focus on my future dissertation.
I might focus on the research of narrative writing in compostion class. As a second language learner and teacher, I know how boring the traditional writing class is no matter when I was a student to learn it or a teacher to teach it. I think the point lies in the topic of writing is too far away from the learner's life experience. Thus, I am interested in discussing the possibility and importance of teaching narrative in ESL writing classroom.
To teach narrative in ESL writing classroom might be a very controversial issue for the narrative is not treated as the acadmic writing. I will based on Bakhtin's viewpoint to go against the anti-narrative's argument that the validity of narrative is questionable.
I think this is an interesting field which I might focus on my future dissertation.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
What is literacy?
1. What is literacy?
In my opinion, literacy is the knowledge which is formed by the social context we situate in.
We are what we are today is created by the whole social discourse and that empowers us to be "literate." I don't think literacy can be defined by the single concept but must be interpreted by the whole context.
2. How to teach literacy?
I don't think literacy can be taught. Students are literate before they come to classroom. I mean they are the creature of social and cultural context, so they were and are literating all the time. The only thing I think we need to teach them is to help them to do the self-consciousness. To help them to better understand themself, define themselves in thier own way rather than define themselves according to the literal definition which is defined by the theorist or textbook.
In my opinion, literacy is the knowledge which is formed by the social context we situate in.
We are what we are today is created by the whole social discourse and that empowers us to be "literate." I don't think literacy can be defined by the single concept but must be interpreted by the whole context.
2. How to teach literacy?
I don't think literacy can be taught. Students are literate before they come to classroom. I mean they are the creature of social and cultural context, so they were and are literating all the time. The only thing I think we need to teach them is to help them to do the self-consciousness. To help them to better understand themself, define themselves in thier own way rather than define themselves according to the literal definition which is defined by the theorist or textbook.
Monday, June 9, 2008
My experience in IUP
1. So far I enjoy the life in IUP. As an international student, I feel frustrated at the beginning
when I came to IUP. I can't get myself involved in this community in the first semester, but
now, everything is getting better. I think I learn a lot from the past two semesters. The most
challenging thing for me is to understand and to be understood in this academic community.
Anyway, I can see myself get the improvement more and more. Though there are a lot of
difficulties to study here, I know I can overcome them gradually.
2. I am interested in talking about the narrative pedagogy in writing discoure in my future
dissertation. I believe that the narrative writing can benefit students in second language
learning. I think I will talk about the important role the self identity may play when one
uses narrative in the writing.
3. I think writing can be based on technology and this idea will be applied to my future teaching.
As a teacher, I will let my students to use technology to write down their thoughts and feeling.
For instance, their thoughts and feeling can be shared from blog.
when I came to IUP. I can't get myself involved in this community in the first semester, but
now, everything is getting better. I think I learn a lot from the past two semesters. The most
challenging thing for me is to understand and to be understood in this academic community.
Anyway, I can see myself get the improvement more and more. Though there are a lot of
difficulties to study here, I know I can overcome them gradually.
2. I am interested in talking about the narrative pedagogy in writing discoure in my future
dissertation. I believe that the narrative writing can benefit students in second language
learning. I think I will talk about the important role the self identity may play when one
uses narrative in the writing.
3. I think writing can be based on technology and this idea will be applied to my future teaching.
As a teacher, I will let my students to use technology to write down their thoughts and feeling.
For instance, their thoughts and feeling can be shared from blog.
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