CAN TECHNOLOGY REPLACE TEACHERS.........

CAN TECHNOLOGY REPLACE TEACHERS?

WHAT THE TEACHER IS, IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT HE TEACHES.

 Teacher:  

                     A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive is also able to understand the present. The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

Technology:

                        It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

                         

                                           Technology has grown leaps and bounds in every aspect that it looks as though we can totally depend on it for our daily needs. Children are seen glued to computers, iPods and cell phones looking for information, playing games, chatting with friends etc. Anything and everything seems to be available at the click of a button. Then why do we need teachers? Are we going to get rid of them? Won’t it make much sense to just learn from the various sources, instead of having someone standing and reciting all the information? There are many more questions which we have come across from time to time.

                                “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.”

TEACHER CAN DO MORE THAN TECH:

                                                                    I hate that technology and education seem to be at odds with each other as presented in some media.  This "either or" mentality is, in my opinion, detrimental to the future of education.  We should embrace technology when it serves its purpose, but not treat as a replacement for teachers.  Computerized tests may be better at accurately assessing which reading skills my student needs to focus on, but a computerized test will not know why that student has not mastered that skill.  It can dictate a learning program fit to fix that gap, or to propel them forward, but hitting rewind and watching it over and over will not always guarantee that a student masters a concept.   So when we let videos be the only teaching tool for a child, or a computer program, then we stop figuring out why that child does not understand. We lose that human connection that teachers provide.

                                         We need the human connection for that, we need some form of a teacher to sit down and figure out what is happening in that child's mind.  To figure out how we keep them engaged and interested.  How we keep them invested.  A computer program will always analyze but forget about the human aspect.  It will assess the problem from a deficit standpoint whereas lack of understanding may be as easy as lack of vocabulary or lack of sleep.

                                           A frightening future to me would be one where teachers are nonexistent or serve a secondary role to the almighty computer.  Where students are greeted by machines from their own private spaces and curriculum is served through a computer program.  Lunch is served by them and extracurricular activities are gone by the wayside. Teachers don't just teach the curriculum; they process it, they analyze it knowing their students' skills.  They invest their time in it so that students will want to invest their own.  They make it meaningful, relevant, and they make it fun.  Technology can help with that, but it shouldn't replace.  Teachers do more than just teach; they shape, they mold, they model behavior, and they connect.  Often that connection is worth more than any curriculum.  Worth more than any computer program. So the path of the future is our hands; we can show the way of how to use technology correctly as a tool to help propel us forward as practitioners or we can hide from it and lament its coming.  Technology was never meant to replace teachers, but it slowly is, it is up to us whether we let it.

When technology is out spacing indigenous methods of teaching in the field of education too, former president of India A. P. J.ABDUL KALAM said that ‘TECHNOLOGY CAN NEVER REPLACE A TEACHER’.

Some reasons to prove that teachers can never run out of work.

1. A teacher is a guide, friend, motivator and a person who can be approached at any time.
2. Teachers use technology as a means to teach children. Though children rely more on technology, they require a human presence to tell them the right way to do it and also explain to them in case of any queries, which a computer will not be able to.
3. All of us prefer someone to interact with.  A teacher is able to develop a two-way communication process which helps the child learn better.  Interaction is something which can happen only when there are humans and not possible with a computer or any other technological gadgets.
4. A tech gadget cannot motivate students to work harder and also strive towards the best. Teachers are the best influencers which a child comes across in his life. A teacher can build or break the child’s motivation. Continuous exposure to a machine only makes a person brain dead and not a normal human being.
5. Teachers cater to every child’s need in the classroom. Every child is unique and as such would need a different approach to learning and teaching, which can be developed only by the teacher.

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

                                  “It is not about the technology; it’s about sharing knowledge and information, communicating efficiently, building learning communities and creating a culture of professionalism in schools. These are the key responsibilities of all educational leaders”.

TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS TEACHER:

                                                              Technology can make lesson more interesting for the students. To makes things visual is so much more interesting than only telling about it. Interactive lessons on a smart board for example give you the opportunity to 'play' and learn. The students like to do something. You have all the attention and the results of understanding are getting better.
What I did was to scan the pages of a workbook or textbook and show them on the screen. Now all the students look at the board and I can see if they are paying attention. I can write an example on the board a use the page they have in the book. You want ideas to make some nice lessons? Use the internet. Nowadays teachers from all over the world are helping each other with great lessons.
Besides lessons there is a lot of administration in school. All the tests, all the observation and talks with the parents. 20 year ago everything was written down on paper. Now the data is all on the computer. With one click you can find all the info from all the years the students were at the school. You don't need 5 folders to get all the info. There are special programs that contain everything.
The grades can be compared with previous years and the national tests you can compare with all other schools. So I think technology is without a doubt necessary nowadays.

“TECHNOLOGY IS SO MUCH FUN BUT WE CAN DROWN IN OUR TECHNOLOGY. THE FOG OF INFORMATION CAN DRIVE OUT KNOWLEDGE.”

TECHNOLOGY HELPS TEACHERS WITH ASSESMENTS:

                                                               Assessment is not just about testing how much learners know – it is a vital part of teaching and learning.   While recognizing its value, many teachers avoid assessment tasks as far as possible because of the great admin load it creates. When teachers use technology to help them with assessment tasks the only tears they’ll shed will be tears of joy.

Those who hope 21st-century technological wonders will replace teacher should listen/ read my points that definitely clear the picture that “TECHNOLOGY NEVER REPLACED TEACHERS, IT HELPS TEACHERS AS A TOOL, IT IMPROVE THE TEACHING SKILL OF TEACHERS, IT CAN MAKE TEACHING MORE INTERESTED AND ACCURTE BUT NEVER REPLACE TEACHERS”. 

                    If you take admission in ‘Virtual Learning English Language Arts,’ in which you answered questions on the computer. While you worked on the computer, your teacher graded papers or did other work on own computer. Your teacher did not lecture or use the blackboard for instruction. You did not receive direct instruction from your teacher and was frustrated that, although the computer program would indicate whether you answered a question correctly or incorrectly, it never explained why a particular answer was correct.” That is a dead end. It will only lead to more students confused and frustrated, losing precious time.

WHAT IS THE CASE FOR FACE TO FACE TEACHING?

                                                                                      First, it is precisely the condition of being face to face.  Great teachers know how to take the temperature in the room, and see how to take the experience of a diverse group of students learning together and transform it into something magical (at its best) and irreproducible mechanically.    There is a quality of the human and aspiration and inspirational that defines teaching and that is something that happens when I am in the same room with you.   Great teachers understand how precious face-to-face communication is and find ways to make the most of our very special time together.  Great teachers understand the intimacy and responsibility of great learning, of how charged and fraught and precious the role model and mentor are.   They treat that human relationship with the utmost respect and care. More than one person has said the really important 3 R's are "rigor, relevance, and relationship." A great teacher does all three, setting the standards sky high, making sure that the learner understands how all that hard work will translate into life-forming knowledge or values and ensuring a personal connection that, in essence, models the way to translate that rigor and relevance into something intensely meaningful and motivating. The teacher can see how far a student has gotten on her own and where she's stumbled.   Class time then is spent with very small clusters of students, each cluster chosen because of a problem, and with other clusters working together during that same time on a different problem that they are helping one another to learn.   When the teacher focuses on them, they can they show if they've solved it or not by talking about how they answered the next series of questions and on and on. How do we learn best?  How do we teach best?   That's the question.   If we can be replaced by a computer screen, we should be.   If that statement worries you, well, maybe that's a good thing.   It's a challenge.   It's meant to provoke thought about what we can add, or how online learning can take care of certain basics but there are other, even more foundational basics, that require real, human, interactive, meaningful connection.   That's the point.  There's no one model, there's no right way.   But there are plenty of lazy, unthinking wrong ways.  That's the challenge.  That's the choice.” BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT TEACHERS CAN BE REPLACED BY A TECHNOLOGY, AT LEAST NO TECHNOLOGY I'VE YET SEEN. TECHNOLOGY CAN ENHANCE TEACHING, IT CAN'T REPLACE TEACHERS. THE INSTRUCTIONAL MOMENT IS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.”

TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T TEACH, TEACHERS TEACH:

                                                                                    Education is experiencing a seismic change. The chalkboard and print-based textbook classroom of yesterday is fast becoming the digital-whiteboard and e-book classroom of tomorrow. But as students across the country head back to school this month, the companies charged with helping to implement these changes cannot forget the golden rule: the motherboard and the memory chip will never replace the passion and inspiration of a real-life teacher. No matter how far we evolve from the technology, we cannot afford to sacrifice the foundation of education that is built upon the unique relationship between teacher and student.  I urge to education community to increase their efforts to provide not only the resources to our teachers, but also the necessary professional development. We must recognize that the teacher-student relationship comes first. Only then will we continue to see improved results in the wired classrooms of tomorrow. “Technology doesn't teach. Teachers teach.”

                                      The technology revolution needs excellent teachers. Good teaching is more than knowing the core standards. Good teaching operates at a human level and involves:

• Motivating students to take on next challenges and persist despite barriers;
• Helping students with time and task management and other habits critical to success;
• Building children’s social and emotional skills and fortitude;
• Mentoring and modeling life skills;
• Addressing personal and family situations that may impede learning;
• Helping students dig deeper into material and develop higher-order thinking skills (analytical, conceptual, and creative); and
• Taking responsibility for ensuring learning outcomes, making changes when a student’s learning growth stalls – below or above standards.

But it is also a consideration that good teaching needs the technology revolution.  There are three basic ways that the digital environment can aid teaching:

1. Enabling excellent teachers to reach more students.
2. Attracting and retaining more of these excellent teachers.
3. Boosting effectiveness and job options for average teachers.

TECHNOLOGY NEVER REPLACES TEACHERS:

                                                                               TECHNOLOGY can't fill in the role of a teacher. Scientific gadget doesn't have personality, mood, or feeling like teachers does. Also, can't discipline the students in the classroom if the students go out of control, can't comfort a human soul. To make a human being human feelings are needed which are available in human beings only not in any gadget.  Well gadgets / machines / computers are nothing but Idiot boxes. They just do what they are programmed for without considering the "emotion" factor. So NO WAY can gadgets replace teachers. But yes technology can enhance the mode / approach of teaching.

                                                   A teacher is a teacher not just because she imparts knowledge but does much more. Gadgets certainly cannot substitute the warmth and the understanding of a teacher which goes a long way, perhaps all your life. However, there is no denying that teaching and learning does become more interesting and has more impact with visuals. They are helpful not only in enhancing the knowledge of both teacher and the taught; they also break the monotony in teaching and learning. A combination of both- the teacher and technology can do wonders.

                                                        Gadgets can help teachers in many ways but it can never replace a teacher...A teacher not only teach a subject but he/she has to play many roles sometimes a friend and even sometime equally to parent which electronic gadget can never provide....A teacher will always understand students demand and their mental state and teach accordingly. Gadgets can be used to make thing simpler and creative but it to needs to be controlled...But a teacher can handle different types of students at a time with his/her efforts.

                                                             Teachers can never be replaced. Human touch is much needed for our children to learn well. Teachers can understand the uniqueness of each child and cater accordingly. Moreover, we need teachers to use the scientific gadgets to teach the children... So... No question of replacement, only effective usage of scientific gadgets by teachers as one of their teaching tools. Giving exposure to various scientific innovations in the primary education by involvement of the teacher in teaching basics has to be thought. out in our country. Young minds can be taught anything if practical demonstration is done by the teachers involvement. Learning should be made comfortable by practical exposure instead of laborious mugging of the theoretical concepts. Practical formulation in class room to teach sound theory has to be thought.

                                

                                                    A real teacher is needed to utilize these new gadgets to instruct the kids about the way things are relevant today than they were years ago in order for the kids to learn the correct way to use it.
I would say in my final sentence that let's teach humanity to the kids and teach them to be humans and be humane first rather than force feed them with information which leads to the end of innocence with these so called effective tech tools.
                                                      Any gadget is a lifeless tool, a creation or an outcome of human brain made to think and create by the inspiration (teaching) of a teacher. The effectiveness of the gadget depends on the teacher's skill or the way he uses it in the class room to supplement his teaching and necessarily the teacher is its master. Truth is- nothing can replace a teacher.

                 “No technology howsoever efficient can replace teachers from the classes. The affective domain of the learning is managed my heart and soul only and we cannot device any machine with heart and soul.”

                                      Teachers cannot be replaced in any case but with the help of some gadgets for example.....earlier Chalk & Black-Board to White Board & Marker and to Interactive White Board & Bundled software & Classroom Technology solutions.....which aid teachers in a great extent....
So in my words Teacher never be replaced but with the help of Technological Up gradation & use of some modern day gadgets and solutions presents the classes in a better way........

1. There are no easy way outs for success. Leaning in not an exception, learning should carry out in accordance with proper conventional method otherwise it is volatile.
2. Man has created the scientific gadgets and at any point of time it requires the presence of the trainer or creator.
3. These days we are running short of maintaining relations so let us not leave this relation which has given an eminent place in the Hindu mythology by equating a teacher to trinity.
4. Added to our economic problems of our country we have one more burning problem from the students society is lack of indiscipline which may be a resultant of nuclear families or mechanized life structure of parents.
5. According to our ancient Gurukul System of Education, our methodology is a perfect combination of practical and as well as theoretical way of dealing a subject it is agreed that in the span of time we have a lost a essence but it doesn't mean that it should go into a different mould which we call it as scientific methods for easy learning.

IF IT HAPPENS, MAN IS SCREWED BY THE TOOL.

TECHNOLOGY LEARNING MEANS A REVITALIZED TEACHING PROFESSION, IF WE HAVE THE WILL.

At last I conclude:

                              “The nation’s schools and policymakers will need the courage to dramatically change – and not just nibble away at the edges of – a profession that has remained static as other professionals have advanced. Without that courage, our teachers and students – and our nation – will miss an enormous opportunity made possible by the advent of digital technology while other nations undoubtedly seize it.”

Nancy Kassebaum says:-

                                                            “THERE CAN BE INFINITE USES OF THE COMPUTER AND OF NEW AGE TECHNOLOGY, BUT IF TEACHERS THEMSELVES ARE NOT ABLE TO BRING IT INTO THE CLASSROOM AND MAKE IT WORK, THEN IT FAILS.” 

Dr. A.P.J. Kalam says:-

                                   EDUCATIONISTS SHOULD BUILD THE CAPACITIES OF THE SPIRIT OF INQUIRY, CREATIVITY, ENTREPRENEURIAL AND MORAL LEADERSHIP AMONG STUDENTS AND BECOME THEIR ROLE MODEL.

                           “NEW TECHNOLOGY IS COMMON, NEW THINKING IS RARE. TEACHING IN THE INTERNET AGE MEANS WE MUST TEACH TOMORROW’S SKILLS TODAY.”