Module 14
– Adult learning
Groupmembers:
Ajekie
Romana, Gooroocharan Crasida, Mohan Perwin, Pallees Mildred and
Vitesh
Shankar
Assignment
1: Persuading other Adult Educators to US ICTs in the Classroom
1. Short
description
School
name :
Private
Number of
Students :
300 students
Number of
Teachers :
20
Availability
of Computers : yes, 15
Teachers
in school if they are more conservative or more open to new technologies:
60% of the teachers
are conservative, a view teachers are open for technologies
Socio
economic situation of the students: bad,
one parent families, large families.
Socio
economic situation of the teacher:
reasonable or rational
Teacher
nickname : Granny
Age : 55+
School
region : Paramaribo Flora B
Teaching
subject : History
Numbers of
years in the school : 2 years
Numbers of
years in education : 35 years
Teaching
philosophy : teacher based education
Teaching
style : orthodox, consequent, like one way traffic
Teacher
thoughts about technology:
technology is bad for students, because she think
they don’t think
the tools for right thing
Interests : reading books, travelling,
Good
teaching practices : Teacher with previous job position at
history exam committee
Passion :
discipline
Other
information :
Frustrated, ICT is too bad for youth
Mobiles are only call and pick up calls
Conclusion :
she was not able or she don’t want change
1.2 Describe a
detailed plan about how you would convince this teacher
to use
technology.
Class
situation: regular history lesson
Lesson
subject: Industrialization in Europe
Description:
The teacher asked the class how they
feel, how their weekend was. After that she take absent of the class and asked
the students to put their history book on the table. She tells the class that
the lesson will be about “Industrialization in Europe”. One students asked the
teacher if she made a mistake because “Europe” is a subject of geography. There
is a small discuss about it with student and teacher. Student want to search Europe
as continent at google map in their mobile. The teacher don’t want to see
mobiles on de desk of the student. The students asked the teacher about
Facebook, WhatsApp and other mobile gadgets, but the teacher is very angry
about this manner of the students. She give the student the task to read a
paragraph of the chapter and go out of the class to report this to the
principle. Out of the class she met her colleague Mildred, the geography
teacher.
3. Write the arguments you would use to make sure this
teacher could be
possible influenced to use technology
Mrs. Mildred were late that that they because her alarm
clock didn’t rings that morning. She woke up late when the alarm of her mobile
rings, but luckily she was free the first 2 lessons. Mrs. Mildred ask Mrs.
Granny what happened why she looks so angry. She told the story of the class to
Mrs. Mildred, and Mrs. Mildred took Mrs. Granny to the teacher’s room and tell
her the story what happened to her. Suddenly Mrs. Granny asked of it is possible
to put a daily alarm on a mobile. Because her alarm clock is broken and a new
one is too expensive. Mrs. Mildred shows Mrs. Granny the opportunities about
the alarm setting but also what the students tell her about during the history
lesson. Mrs. Granny get interested in the possibilities of the mobiles and how
she can use it in her class. Mrs. Granny promise to talk to her students and
will take some course to use mobiles during her lesson.
4. Detail
what ICTs applications you would use to influence this teacher
A.
Mobile: alarm settings
B.
Laptop: google earth
