The Usage of Technology for Teachers in Times of Pandemic

by Carolina II Mateo

 

Teaching profession is a very challenging job. It requires creativity, resilience and guts. It also requires a person who can adapt in different situations and could manage to create possibilities of a more learner-friendly content.

As we all know, technology is a student and a teacher’s best friend. It makes majority of work less time-consuming and more manageable. Technology is a great help on developing and increasing one’s knowledge and an excellent aid on accomplishing different tasks. Experiencing it first hand, I believe the technological skills earned will be an asset to design a more interactive and collaborative learning in the classroom. Technology truly modernized teaching-learning environment.

With the use of technology teachers can present their lesson in a more exciting way- video presentations, movie clips and music. This will enable them to become more creative in their work and be able to catch student’s attention. The use of technology will improve the teaching-learning process and the ways of teaching.  Teachers can discuss lessons and present it using the technological tools like projectors to be more involved and making use of this in a more realistic setting.  They can also make use of different softwares/apps like Kahoot!, quizzit and the like to easily assess students’ learning in a paperless method. Technology provides enormous support the teachers as well as to the future teacher as the facilitator of learning.

21^st century teachers on the new normal setting can make use of technology in different situation. It can enhance one’s competence and can inculcate scientific outlook as to educator, encourage us to imbibe skills to source information with speed and accuracy, and facilitate actively and collaboratively in the learning-teaching environment.