ESSAY 4. (UNIT 4)

 COMPUTERS AND THE TEACHER´S ROLE ON CLASSROOM

       To start with, nowadays, we are living in a computer age. The appreciation of computers is more than at any other time. It has dominated almost all the fields. What is more, there is no cast doubt that education institutions make use of them increasingly. Manifestly, the teaching-learning process has changed since their introduction. The search for information has become easier and delightful, and connectivity has accelerated the data availability. Even though experts systems have made computers more intelligent, they have not yet become a substitute of the human interaction in the learning process. As far as I am aware, what can be expected is a change of the teacher’s role, but not their appearance from the classroom. However, better results will be gotten on classroom  if teachers make the best use of technology. 

      In addition, by using a computer, the acquisition of knowledge is more comfortable. So, the mere activity of touching and exploring the latter device constitutes an enjoyable task for an individual. Besides that, a better grasping of new knowledge is too often a consequence of an accompanied relaxing attitude and software interactivity. A good illustration of this is that at a higher educational level, the availability of digital books, simulators, and other academic materials will aim at providing the learner with an ever accessible source of information, that quite the contrary would not be performed at hand.  Moreover, there is more and more an increasing complexity and behavior of intelligent software, which is usually embedded in the academic digital material. It means that the need for human interaction in the learning process will always be fundamental, at least in a foreseeable future.

      Nevertheless, there is always the necessity for a human being to be able to determine what the specific needs of each individual are. It goes without saying, the expertise of a teacher in how to explain and adapt complex concepts to different individuals can hardly be developed by a computer, no matter how sophisticated its software is. While computer are becoming a useful tool for teaching, teachers ought to be more aware of their role as guides in the acquisition of knowledge rather than transmitter of facts. They have to be open minded to the changes that are emerging in today's world; instead, they have to take advantage of every single new breakthrough that come up by keeping updated and serving as problems solvers in such a process. Consequently, allowing students to discover the fact for themselves, it will lead to a better understanding of certain problems likely to appear during the aforementioned process. In class, people can get to know different points of views of others, what is more, one teacher has adequate knowledge for teaching with more ease to students in an effective way. Although learning from computers is comfortable, it is void of disciplined learning environment provided by teachers.

       Overall, from my standpoint, teachers play actually and will continue playing a pivotal role on classroom, mainly at the primary level. It matters little how complex computers become one day, there will be no need for replacing the human interaction, but in the way how this interaction takes place. Obviously, computers have to be considered as one of teacher aids and not as a replacement. While studying with a teacher, students get to know well among them. They learn to work in team when they are given group assignments. Therefore, a feeling of compassion is developed among them, which is not possible in computer learning. In conclusion, it is always better to have a teacher since he or she has a wider knowledge, a great experience, and a respectful education in order to teach others. People are more likely to learn along a teacher rather than on their own.