Saturday, April 12, 2008

My Personal View of Forums

We are surrounded by technology during our everyday lives, and school will use many more in the next few years. At first sight, forums are only group discussions on the internet, they can be about any subjects you want (cars, music, sports ETC). The major reason why forums should be implanted in every school is the help it would bring to students. The community could do a lot more by itself while surfing on the forum because all the ressources would be at their disposition. Forums also have a tremendous impact on peer sharing because it pushes students to develop their abilities to share their opinion about their personal beliefs. It also helps them to write a text with a good language because they can show their credibility through the posts they write.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Students' Behaviour in Computer Lab

Internet is very wide concerning the content it can display on the screens. As a future teacher, my biggest worry is situated on the kind of websites the kids will go on when I'll have to take them in a computer lab. Whatever the content is pornography, gaming, gambling or illegal download, the aspect we should not forget is that all of them are inappropriate in a classroom environment.

School is an environment where kids are expected to learn, so the content of the visited websites should reflect that idea. However, there are always some possibilities that a kid will not respect those rules, and the way that teachers should deal with it is really important. 

In my mind, no one should be humiliated on the public place. This is why a teacher should not talk in front of the whole class about a bad thing a kid just did. I think that there should be a discrete intervention between the teacher and the student. It should also take place in a discussion format because student will feel less embarrassed.