Being passionate about teaching, coupled with a personal mission to provoke thinking and independence in learning, my prezi taps on the necessity for teachers to view themselves as partner learners who look into matters from different perspectives, directions and ways to tear down walls constructed by a too familiar system.
“We shape our tools,” McLuhan said, “and then our tools shape us.” The quote raises the question: Do we create our own destinies or become subordinate and play into the hands of forces beyond us? Technology, according to McLuhan, is an extension of our own natural faculties. Every technology is, likewise, an extension of our own natural powers, born out of some natural need or the other. “This is to say that technology can be understood in terms of final cause, or purpose, and that purpose is a purpose of the living human being.” Technology, therefore, has a relation to the need and purpose and cannot be otherwise. As such, technology has an important role in linking people at the grass-roots level to the outside world. There are many examples in rural areas of how technology is helping people to take informed decisions. Technology will continue to play a decisive role in ushering change in the rural areas.
Stephen Krashen makes more sense than a library of books on language acquisition and ESL teaching methodology. LingQ follows Krashen's precepts with a few different features.