Students Centred - Learning

Student Centre of learning is an approach to education focusing on the needs of the students, rather than those of others involved in the educational process, such as teachers and administrators, or in other words Student Centred-Learning is totally the opposite of the Teacher Centre, because the student will have the opportunity to talk most of the time and to perform most of the jobs in the class. The teacher will not teach but will by the guidance for the student during the activity performing and the teacher will give the student the way to learn without her help.

 

This is a new technique that we didn't use to have at our studying years at school, but I noticed it from my one year experience in teaching.

From my experience I noticed that student centre learning that the main example for the student centred- Learning is the group work; because during the performing the tasks or solving the problems between groups in my point of view that will allow the students to cooperate with each other, desire the achievements, solving the problems, and share the information.

From what I read about this topic and from my experience in teaching I think that this is a good technique that could be better than the teacher learning because the students will get the knowledge themselves, will participate more with the teacher in the lesson, and share their knowledge   with the classmates.

But the question that I'm thinking about is that applicable now a days with all the subjects studied? Or  is it related to specific subjects? Are the teachers going to apply this technique with their students in the next coming years? What are the goals that will be desired if they apply this technique? 

Tool, Tutee, Tutor

Three modes of using computers in education

Taylor, R., P. describes three modes of using computers in education, which are listed in tutor, tool and tutee.

If we are going to talk about each part of which the computer can be considered we can say that if the computer is acted as a Tutee, then there are lots of advantages of being a tutee described as

• You will learn what you are trying to teach the computer, because you can't teach something you don't know about yourself.

• As the computer can only operate within narrow confines this will force you to think about how to teach the computer.

• Teachers can save time and money by using computers as tutees because they don't have to locate and pay for tutor or tool software.

In other case to talk about the computer as a Tool.  It is a useful machine to install different software in, such as calculator or word processing, paint, and Microsoft Office  that are useful for the students in different subjects studied, where the calculator will be used with math subjects to get the results for calculation.

but to talk about the computer as a tutor it will act in both ways as a teacher when the user try to learn something, and as a student that will help them to build their own information. so   when the student uses the computer this will  develop high level of thinking, and solve problems and make decisions.

In my point of view that we didn't use to have this with us when we were students so the Ministry of Education is now trying to improve the teacher skills into now a days technology.

From my one year experience, in my point of view that the computer will act in two different modes the Tool that will be used by the students to perform some tasks, and could be as a tutor that will looks like a teacher when you are going to use it to learn something.

About me...

My name is Maryam Mohammed Yaseen, I'm 25 years old. I've graduated from AMA International University with the course of Bachelors of Engineering Informatics ( BSEI ) for the school year 2008/2009. I worked at MotorCity show room before I joined to Ministry of Education. I have one year experience in teaching. Currently I'm doing my masteral degree with AMA International University for evening time and I hope that I will continuou my Phd. once I ended my Master thesis. I enjoyed browswing through the Internet, swimming, and looking among magazines.