Riyan Oi: Class Management

Assignment 13.1:

Today technology has become a major driving force in our life. we rely most of our life's business on the use of technology. Ranging from making phone call, traveling distance places, making daily food, and handling various works. we use technology at home, in the office, at schools, and everywhere. In terms of schools, Technology today has contribute so much leap that make education today develop faster and faster. But unfortunately technology may never be able to replace human teacher to educate (Wright, 2013). It is only tool that may help teachers to ease them in educating people.

For teachers and students, today there are many tools available, that may help in teaching and learning process. We have been discussing and trying some of them during this course. Yet, it will be much more useful if we can specifically learn and try the tools that will help us to better prepare to be teachers and manage the class. Managing the class is very important because a better classroom management is an important component in creating an effective classroom environment (Jones, 1996: Manning & Bucher, 2012). In this session we will look at some tools that are available on the Internet that can help us store students learning prgress information, communicate with students and parents, distribute quizzes, making wikis, sharing files, buidling class web, scheduling etc.

A. Gradebook