Teachers and technology

1. What role do you think technology does take/can take in learning?

Teachnology is an important resource because it provoques a meaninful learning. It is a facilitator, and it motivates the students for a better learning.


Through this answer it is possible to have an idea of the approach adopted by this teacher. As almost the majority of chilean teachers, this is a most intrumentalist one. He considers technology as a tool to obtain the desired objectives.


2. What role should the learner take in the classroom?


The role of the learner is to be a receptive person, and a builder of his own knowledge. He should be very active in the classroom.


3. What role should the teacher take in the classroom?

The teachers’ roles are:

- They should be facilitators of their students’ learning
- They should be a collaborator for student in the discovering of his own learning
- They should make the students build his own knowledge


Through these two answers I realise that this teacher is a learner- centered one. Despite he answered in the first question that he thought that the learner’s role is the one of a receptive person, he repeats several times that are the students the ones who must build their own learning.

4. What does good teaching look like?

Good sense of humor, a great knowledge and expertise on the topic he teaches, collaborator, and he should establish a good raport with his students.

I am sure that the teacher did not understand my question (as it was sent via e-mail) therefore this answer, I think, does not have much validity.