Imagine the future....IMAGINE!!!!!

My future classroom is based on the principle that I will try to foster an environment in which all my students will always feel comfortable, be active participants in learning, and be contributors to everyone else’s learning process. In designing my classroom I have utilized all that I have learned this semester and from my experiences.

My classroom will have five “stations” which will be located in our website that I wish to build for them. These stations will be called “Pens in Motion,” the “Class Library,” “Math Magic,” the “Science Center,” and the “Communication Station."

“Pens in Motion” will be the blogs to write something of their refelection for each class and they can ask whatever they not clear from the teacher. This called pen in motion because they can let all children all over the world to read their writing.

"Class Library” is the most important corner for a teacher to upload his/her teaching resources. This provide oppurtunity for the children to access the information anytime and anywhere. The children also can upload any resources that seems related to the lesson but have to be approve by the teacher first.

“Math Magic" is a corner of mathematical questions and any applets that contain mathematical concept. 

“Science Center”is a corner of any resources related to science and any new explorations made by the scientist all over the world. 

"Communication Station." is the conference room between teacher-students and student-student. This is where they share ideas, discussions even their houses are far apart from each other. 

This may sound simple, but the practicality and user friendly are my criteria that determine my future classroom.

Can the "Web" promote and improve learning?

There is promising indication that the Web is a viable means to increase access to education. Evidence on how it can promote and improve learning is as forthcoming.The Web is used as a tool for learning. By a learning tool, I mean use of the Web simply as a vehicle to search for and retrieve information. Clearly, a tool can make a task easier to do--and we likely can do it much more quickly with the tool. But the central question is when we no longer have the tool to use, have we taken away with us some unique skill or ability that could have been acquired only with that tool.

My purpose in raising this issue is to highlight that we cannot simply ask "Do students learn better with the Web as compared to traditional classroom instruction?" We have to realize that no medium, in and of itself, will likely improve learning in a significant way when it is used to deliver instruction. Nor is it realistic to expect the Web, when used as a tool or to develop our students' any unique skills. The key to promoting improved learning with the Web appears to lie within how effectively the medium is exploited in the teaching-learning situation.For example, employs a "conferences" of conversation technique to record and classify student and instructor on-line communication. Unlike in a live classroom where conversations disappear, this medium allows every thought to be captured for future examination, elaboration, and extension. The result is richer, more thoughtful discussions, not because of the medium, but because of the way the instructor stimulated and created the environment that can be made possible by the medium. From this perspective, the Web appears to offer some advantages that can be exploited by the instructor to promote and  improve learning.

How do children think about technology?

Today, children growing up cannot imagine a world without mobile phones. They use high-tech gadgets without thinking much about them. We call them ‘power users of technology’.

The first thing we tend to think about is computers, but to be a “power user” involves much more than that. Let’s take Game Boy, for example. If you are a child good at Game Boy, it comes with a certain social status. Children call their friends to discuss Game Boy. They have a completely different field of activities than adults and it is a challenge for us to understand how these skills influence their studies, their circle of friends and even thier thought.

We wish to find out how they think about their own use of technology, and it is important to look at it from many different points of view such their personal development, learning and cognition. I believe, it can be observed that children who are granted access to communications technology develop the same skills regardless whether they live in developing countries or industrialised countries. 

However, many adults watch the children’s mass consumption of technology with scepticism. In newspaper parents are constantly encouraged to pay attention and to limit the time kids spend in front of the computer. “But if the child was sitting on the couch with a book or a board game, the parents would be happy as we have an idea of what is good and what is bad for our children.Truthfully, the technology changes society and the pattern how they interact with one another. If you ask a young person how many friends he has, the answer may be one hundred. 

To sum up, there are too many aspects we have to look at for this "power users", the most effective one is check and balance method to maintain their usage to stick in track and free from technology abuses.