DefinitionEducation is the key to further expand your knowledge and understanding through a learning process. It passes information from one generation to the next from gathered primary and secondary sources. Education is not always taught, it can be self-learning through a wide range of media now available including internet sources, primary knowledge from the older generations and libraries.
Teachers educate students from pre-school to grad-school which is also know as ‘schooling’ Owsten R, (1997) but children educate themselves from birth through listening and ‘play’. Through teaching methods, the individual gains knowledge and skills that they will continue to build on throughout there life time.
The word education originates form ‘mid 16th century: from Latin educatio(n-), from the verb educare.’ Oxford Dictionaries, 2010 which in Latin means to “bring up”.
HistoryEducation can be divided into loads of different sub heading due to the different techniques, skills used, who the leaner is and the age of the recipient.
In this technology based society we live in, our world is being forced into using technology as a very useful part of everyday live. Education is heavily involved in using technology to teach, and as a teaching source.
Students in further education hugely depend on the internet and its widening functions. “Both teachers and learners must adapt to new styles of teaching and learning to meet future learning requirements.” (French, Hake, Johnson, Farr, 1999). It is far easier for students to embark in independent study if necessary, due to the internet having so many resources and having easy access to other educational tools. This places far more responsibility into learning for themselves and finding their own information rather than depending on a teacher to gather and present the research for them.This is backed up by (French, Hake, Johnson, Farr, 1999) “self-directed learning places the learner rather than the teacher in charge for some or most of the learning process.” This should be an exciting part of learning because this gives responsibility to find out new subject matter and gains new skills. Also giving the teacher a different role as (French, Hake, Johnson, Farr, 1999) explains, “He or she will not be an actor of transmission of just consumption, but will become the facilitator of learning and research as a whole process”, encouraging students to find their own educational solution.
Although Technology plays an important factor in Education there is many teaching techniques that remain the same.
Bauhaus operated during 1919 – 1928. To-date Art students still follow the General Foundation Art course that was introduced by the Bauhaus. “Introduced by the German Bauhaus as a preparation for the follow-up design courses” (Bredendieck, 1962) states and also explain how it used to be called “Foundation-workshops” and still remains to be the General Course.
Although Technology is coming into play with Education is it still Education along with Technology. The Internet is only a resource that Teachers can use to educate but may change the way educators from pre-school to further education compose their teaching plans (Owston 1997).
DesignAlthough technology in the future may do away with typical classroom text books and introduce other forms of technology, teaching methods will still need to be applied to educate the former students. As (Hooper and Rieber, 1995) states the “questions such as how a classroom might change or adapt when a computer is integrated into the curriculum.” This is not technically a bad situation if teaching methods can be improved for better results. With the moon integrated as part of Google Earth, it is now possible to look at pictures taken from forty years ago when two humans walked on the moon. “The Moon add-on has extensive satellite pictures and detailed information about the lunar surface - as well as detailed panoramas of the lunar landing sites.” (Sky News, 2010) This is a good source for teachers to incorporate into a teaching lesson to explain historical situations rather than using a flat text book with sketchbook pictures to try and replicate images that will not be accurate, or using a globe that doesn’t have the graphics required to give indications of the real thing. This can be used as part of projects to feed children’s imagination and explore the idea, using this technology to give an indication of what be like to be an astronaut.
3D interactive heart has recently been created to show all the parts of a human heart including pulsing veins and arteries. This is a great invention for medical students, “to take medical lessons into the 21st century, say the doctors from University College Hospital who created the Heart works model.” (Sky News, 2010). This does away with the use of animal hearts which can only be used for a certain amount of days and students in Biology whom may not want to touch a real life heart, taking a more hands on approach to their studies. Primary schools can also be exposed to this ‘real live heart’ as part of a project because due to the fragility of young children they cannot see an animal organ because it’s too graphic. This 3D heart can then become introduced into primary schools. As explained on (Sky News, 2010) “This 3D computer generated heart simulator” will also replace the use of textbook in primary, secondary and further education and do away with using deceased patient’s hearts for research purposes. This new invention will make any other methods seem ‘old-fashioned’.
Medical students will benefit from this greatly because when graduates takes part in their first cardiac operation they may feel under pressure and extremely nervous where as if they have first hand experience dealing with this piece of technology they will educate themselves with the techniques to under go an operation safely without exposing any implications in the hospital operating theatres, suggested by (Sky News, 2010). Due to the hands of nature of a medical student when it comes to graphin images, it is better to see the image rather trying to understand through text says, (Cousin, 2009) “Images evoke deeper elements of human consciousness than do words.”
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