ESSAY OUTLINE
Question: Is technology useful in the classroom?
Thesis: the incorporation of technology as a pedagogical tool in the classroom
can be a good strategy for a better teaching-learning process.
INTRODUCTION
Hook/Topic Sentence: "Technology should not be used just because it is available, but rather, because it will enable teachers and students to reach learning goals that were not obtainable or as easily obtainable without the technology"(Dror, 2008).
Background Information: Technology slowly seems to be taking over many aspects of human society. Education has gradually evolved to incorporate technology in the dissemination of information. This advancement has revolutionized the classroom environment leading to improved grades and learning experiences.
Thesis: Technology usage in the classroom provide some advantages for the teaching-learning process such as helping to ensure full students' participation in class activities, giving access to a large amount of information, and helping to create a motivating and exciting way to teach.
BODY (1)
Topic Sentence: Technology helps to ensure full students' participation in class activities.
Supporting Sentence: In class discussions, there are many students who are too shy so they do not participate at all. The use of some platform to make online discussions could encourage these students to share their ideas in a written way.
Opposing Opinion: Lack of technological resources in the classroom, not every student has equal access to it.
Counter-Argument: If there are no so many technological devices for each student. Teachers could incorporate collaborative work and make students do the activities in groups.
BODY (2)
Topic Sentence: Technology gives access to a large amount of information
Supporting Sentence: There is a lot of information about different topics of a certain subject that can increase the students' knowledge.
Opposing Opinion: Technology can give access to inappropriate content
Counter-Argument: Students could not access inappropriate content if professors play the right role in paying attention to what their students are reading on the internet.
BODY (3)
Topic Sentence: Technology helps to create a motivating and exciting way to teach.
Opposing Opinion: Technology in the classroom can be a distraction.
Counter-Argument: The distraction is not a big problem when the online activities catch students' attention and encourage them to develop them
CONCLUSION: Technology presents many benefits that can help teachers to have a better teaching-learning process with their students since technology is not only the fact of having technological resources or devices but use them for motivating students to develop different activities in the classroom.
This is an interesting topic, but the effective use of technology in the classroom is faced with other challenges which can be explored as well. For example, developing students´ critical and creative thinking skills, transforming the conventioal teaching practices, or developing students´ new ICTs literacies.
ReplyDelete