Education through Modern Ways
(Abha Abubakar Khalid, Bahawalpur)
No, one can deny that the
electronic media and modern ways of Education are very useful and are just a
click away but to get to that standards What is the role of our Teachers.
so the Question arises?
Q: The disruptive power of digital learning tools & resources is hard to
underestimate. How is this impacting our traditional ways of acquiring
knowledge? Are opinions formed in isolation-or within closed communities-a
threat? And what should be the role of the teacher when every piece of
information is just a click away?
Now the answer is: This current period of time is no doubt the era of technology
where getting information about anything is just a click away. It is sure a
fastest, easiest and more advanced mean of learning. At this current age it is
no big deal to write articles, essays, reports etc of thousands of words in a
matter of time of a day or two, but previously it was a big task in itself. As
students literally used to find people to help them in specific subject or
anything. As very few people were available with the knowledge of that
particular subject and all. But at this time no one needs to go and consult
anyone and roam around to complete any sort of task as everything is present out
there on internet.
Since we all consider it as a blessing and without any sort of doubt it is but
with every blessing comes a curse as well. These days parents do not have to
worry about how their kids going to do their homework or in university or
college instructors are not that much bothered about their subjects as they know
even if they miss out anything every single student has access to digital
learning tools and resources. But this way of thinking has caused a damage in a
way that no one can realize it. In good old days teachers used to consider
teaching a very serious business as it was not just a way of making money for
them but they actually used to take the responsibility of making the student
understand what they have taught, and guide him properly until or unless he does
not become capable of flourishing in that subject.
Getting knowledge to know stuff is not at all the core idea but to understand it
and to capable of utilizing it is the main task here. In old times teachers used
to make sure that students understand what they have learnt. And teachers never
used to leave them depending on other people and outside resources. They used to
work hard on pupils so they come up with their own way of presenting stuff yes
of course they do need some sort of help from outside but that does not mean
that we get the information on certain topic without even knowing anything about
it. We can expect someone to know alpha and omega of every single thing. But to
have basic knowledge and understanding of something is the most important thing.
In this era students complete their projects and degrees but they are not aware
of the basic information of the subject they got degree in. and that is the
drawback of depending too much on digital learning tools and resources that we
miss out the true meaning of learning that was available in old days. We need
genuine way of teaching for students along with the digital learning so we
produce true scholars, doctors and engineers not just students with no pure
knowledge of what they have studied.
So the role of the teachers is that they should take their job more seriously,
their core responsibility is to make sure students understand and guide them
properly and not just leave them depending on digital learning. It is time for
them to take their job and duty seriously it is not just about getting salary
but about the future of a student. What students lack these days is an
intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher that can help to
overcome their weakness and guide them to become better student and this gap can
only be fulfilled if they start it seriously. We don’t need teachers which
merely tells stuff to students, demonstrates or just explain. But we need
teachers to inspire students so they feel free to share a good strong bond with
teachers because they are the ones who work on our character, personality and
abilities so we become what we want to, To make that happen teachers need to
understand that if the student fails as teachers they also fail because they
were not able to make their student become a better one.