Student-Centred Learning

    

From my understanding to student-Centred Learning is that kind of teaching that focuses on the student. Decision-making, organization, and content are largely determined by the student’s needs and perceptions. Even assessment may be influenced or determined by the student. The instructor acts as coach and facilitator. In many respects, the goal of this type of teaching is the development of the student’s cognitive abilities. I think Learning will be most meaningful when topics are relevant to the students’ lives, needs, and interests and when the students themselves are actively engaged in creating, understanding, and connecting to knowledge. The students are not just memorizing information, but they are allowed to work with and use the information alone or with peers.

From my point of view that this type of education has many positive because it provides motivation to student, teaches understanding no knowledge, effective in developing study skills, higher motivation and grades and finally it is interesting ,exciting and boosts confidence. But in the other hand it requires more resources and it is difficult for large classes escpecially in Bahrain the average of class is 30 which is too large.

In the end it is up to each of us as teachers to determine how much SCL we will use. It helps to vary class structures for students. It helps to strengthen outcomes for students. It provides variety for us as teachers. It is up to us as teachers to lead the class and to see how to best utilize the benefits that SCL can provide us. It is up to us as teachers to use a variety of techniques to keep our students challenged in their ongoing quest for understanding.

Computer as tutor,tutee,tool

The computer is a machine like any other machines, but we can make it tutor or tutee or tool.

To function as a tutor in some subject, the computer must be programmed by experts in programming. The student is then tutored by the computer executing the program. The computer presents some subject material, the student responds, the computer evaluates the response, from the results of the evaluation, determines what to present next.

I think that this mode requires a lot of money when we want to apply it in schools to buy these huge educational programs, and to purchase computers that will be used for this task. There is a group of teachers, especially computer teachers which they are excellent in programming, but the lack of encouragement and financial support from the Ministry of Education make them refuse to work in this area, especially the programming means time-consuming.

To function as a tool, the classroom computer need only have some useful capability programmed into it such as statistical analysis, super calculation, or word processing. Students can then use it to help them in a variety of subjects. For example, they might use it as a calculator in math and various science assignments, as a map-making tool in geography, or as a text editor and copyist in English.

In my opinion,To use the computer as tutor and tool can both improve and enrich classroom learning and neither requires student or teacher to learn much about computers.

To use the computer as tutee is to tutor the computer; for that, the student or teacher doing the tutoring must learn to program, to talk to the computer in a language it understands. The benefits are several. First, because you can't teach what you don't understand, the human tutor will learn what he or she is trying to teach the computer. Second, by trying to realize broad teaching goals through software constructed from the narrow capabilities of computer logic, the human tutor of the computer will learn something both about how computers work and how his or her own thinking works. Learners gain new insights into their own thinking through learning to program, and teachers have their understanding of education enriched and broadened as they see how their students can benefit from treating the computer as a tutee. As a result, extended use of the computer as tutee can shift the focus of education in the classroom from end product to process, from acquiring facts to manipulating and understanding them.

Inroduction About myself

 

My name is Fatema Alawi, I am 26 years old; married and have a daughter; she is the most beautiful thing in my life; I have the Bachelor in computer Engineering from University of Bahrain also I have CCNA and CCNP certificate from Cisco .Now, I am a student in BTC (Bahrain Teaching College) and in the same time I am a student in BTI (Bahrain Training Institute) I look forward the CCDA certificate. I have two years experience in teaching in Ministry of Education. I like discovering other cultures because it  helps me to improve myself by re-evaluate my thoughts and look at things from a different prospectus and reading articles about latest technology because  It keeps me up-to-date with the latest technologies in my field and improve my capability of proposing the best possible solution during my duty.