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Teachers Can Start Using Technology

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1- Active: Teachers can start using technology not only to deliver a lesson but also let students to engage with the technological tools. For instance, using smart-board is becoming more popular day by day, and teachers are using it in their teaching activities. However, just showing videos on smart-boards to students relevant to the context that they are learning will not enhance students’ engagement and learning. Thus, teachers can allow students to deliberately engage with technological devices. For example, while teaching numbers, instead of just showing the numbers and the objects, and asking them to calculate, teachers can give them opportunities to draw numbers with their hands on smart-board. In this case, as they will be engaging with the technological device, their attention will be higher, and they will learn easier.
On the other hand, some of teachers may not be eager to give chance to students for using technological tools actively because they believe that it is wasting time. However, although discovering the tool by students takes some time at the beginning, it will help both teachers and students to save time during further activities. For instance, some students may not familiar with computer because of different reasons. Thus, the teacher may not allow students using computer to prevent chaos during showing the context of an activity. However, in this case, each time, s/he will need to spend much more time to show each student the context. Instead of this,

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