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- Bmcallis on 2009-07-14 - Tags technology , education , learning , ICT
- Lynnec on 2008-04-12 - Tags curve , Australian , article , teaching
- Barbs1 on 2008-04-07 - Tags profread
- Jessmcculloch on 2008-04-07 - Tags teaching , austedtech , newspaperarticles , theaustralian
- Mruley on 2008-04-07 - Tags learningcurve_for_teachers
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As a matter of course, technology is also changing the way teachers teach -- from how they engage their students and manage their classrooms, to how they shape their working day, manage their professional lives -- and indeed how they think about a career in education.
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this is affecting the way she manages the class.
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"Firstly, I teach in smaller grabs of time," she says, "but this is a good thing. I personally believe that teaching has long been too auditory. It is important to cater for different perceptual styles -- visual, auditory and kinesthetic (learning by doing) -- especially when teaching younger children."
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Before the internet, to be a teacher you had to be everything in one person. Now there is a range of possibilities and many more people can become part of the education process,"
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"This is not to diminish the role of educators to simply and an administrative job," she says. "Teaching is an intellectual skill. It is the art of getting people to expand their minds, have insights, develop values and to grow emotionally. That will not change."
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