Taken from https://www.udel.edu/sbct/
Beliefs on
Student Behavior
By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.
School of English
Faculty of Social Sciences
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Post 258
Teaching in higher education is a
fascinating area of work; seeing learners how –step y step- develop their
knowledge and how it can be applied in various working settings is rather
satisfying for any faculty member. Though it is a great field to work in, we
come to question several behaviors students hold or even our beliefs towards
those conducts. Now, if you were prompted with the following, how would you
react and what would you write?
ü Write
down three statements you believe about your students and their behavior. On what
do you base these statements?
ü Reflect on
your beliefs about your students and their behavior.
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As part of this exercise I was given
in an online course on higher education, I came up with my statements and with
my explanations. What can be concluded? Take a look at this.
1
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Students
are not that technologically-oriented.
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It looks
like they are, but technologically speaking they are more into being part of
their circle of friends and acquaintances. Just because they have a
smartphone, it does not mean they are into using technology-mediated
learning.
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2
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Students
are not that savvy when it comes to technology.
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Once
again, the use of smartphones does not guarantee the use of technology per
se. Ss are much more into understanding what new apps there are than what
kind of freeware is there to help them learn.
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3
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More deep
learning and engaging activities are needed for them.
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If
technology-mediated activities are meant to be used for objective development
and learning consolidating, they need to be modeled and then appealing to
them to produce engagement and motivation.
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As a quick conclusion, it can simply
be stated that we faculty member need to further develop our ethnography of
groups of students to really see what it may be happening with all of them.
Through our reflective journaling, as this piece, we can get to know more about
ourselves as instructors and about our learners in a classroom or in a virtual
space.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
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