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Blog 2: Non-responsive Students

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Why do not some students participate in lessons? According to my previous teaching experiences, this can happen because of two reasons. Firstly, the teacher may be aggressive towards the students, discouraging them when they give a wrong answer, not listening to  students etc. as you can see, it may originate from the teacher itself. On the other hand, there are some elements that are caused by students themselves. The first reason is that they may not fully know the answer or they do not have any idea about the topic. In this case they don’t want to look silly in front of their peers, thus they prefer remaining silent. In this case the teacher should promote students to join the lesson by saying “It does not matter if it is right or not, just tell your opinion because that matters.”, secondly, they may think that it is not worth answering questions. As a student myself, in high school I usually avoided answering questions, and sometimes I even did not bother with answering them on...

Blog 1: Technology Enhanced Learning

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Do you think mathematics is too vague to understand or was that your mathematics teacher who made it boring to understand it? Do you think that listening to a history lesson is more exciting than listening to a mathematics lesson? Well, my friend then your teacher didn’t make your lessons enjoyable by using some visualization tools to make mathematics more abstract. According to qualitative study conducted by Kennedy & Dunn (2018) using technology enhanced learning, promotes the interaction between the students and the teacher.  When I was in high school, my physics teacher used “simulations” to explain us how physics work, he used PhET simulations to teach us about gases, vectors, molecules and many more things.  It looked like this. A PhET simulation about gas properties. But I have always dreamt about learning mathematics in a similar way, because you know high school mathematics sounds boring with its logarithm, derivative, integral, trigonometry, cosines, sinuses etc....