WEEK 4: A New Perspective

While I was reading the instructions for this week's task about creating a lesson plan enhanced with technology I realised that so far my lesson plans have been very detailed which I don't find very useful. What counts for me are the general aims and the specific objectives the teacher has for each class she teaches and not so much the procedure and the timing. We cannot disregard the fact that the class is defining the pace of teaching and learning as the lessons must be student-centered and not teacher-centered.
Most of the times I have used technology was to add something to my lesson, to make it more up-to-date, to intrigue the students and sometimes facilitate the learning process. Never before had I seen the use of technology as a way to solve learning problems or suit learner's needs.So, it is a new perspective for me to try to see things from this angle, i.e to first think of a problematic area and then try to find with the help of colleagues a solution using technology. How many things we're learning and how many things are left to be explored...
Maria