Assignments_KizzelMina



**// Assignment#1: //**    **// A Teacher: That's Me! //**   //Silence prevail... My thoughts begin to wander until it reached a point of time which seems to be inconceivable. I closed my eyes and let my imagination bring me to the future. // //Standing in front of a classroom, I find myself. I am facing 30 to 40 highschool students with minds hungry for knowledge and it's my job to feed them. But if I would consider that it's not a job but rather "MY LIFE". Yes, teaching is my life and I'm living as a teacher. So, I was standing in front discussing something about Phrase structure rules. I'm an English teacher, you know. As usual, my students were actively participating. It feels great to see that there were no sleepy heads inside my class. Somehow, it makes of feel that I'm an effective teacher. Even though every class is a hodge podge of different personalities, I was still able to adjust to every behavior and learning styles. Definitely it's the result of the learnings I gained from my Principles of Teaching, Facilitating Learning and Child and Adolescent Development when I was in college. And maybe it was also contributed by the fact that I know my students personally and not just mentally. I believe learning process is not just inside the classroom because in reality the world, itself, is the real classroom of every person. And as I let my students answer on the board about disecting certain sentencer into categories and further breaking them into simpler parts, I can't help but to smile not just because they answer it correctly, which is a manifestation that they understand the lesson well, but because of their smiles that shows contentment. Right now I can say, technology really helps me in teaching my lesson. Thanks to my Educational Technology when I was in 2nd year because I learned to present my lesson using powerpoint. That is using technology as a boon! :D // //It happens everyday, I'm teaching them lesson concerning the English subject. But I must say that's only 50% of being a teacher because there is still a greater //

//half that I haven't mentioned yet. It's the fact that being a teacher with good attitude and values, I was able to influence my students to become good citizens of the Philippines and the whole world. Being with them Mondays to Fridays gives me time to know them better and let them know me better. I became their counselor and surrogate mother. As a teacher, I have touched lives and will be able to touch more lives. I'm really happy with my life right now. //

//To be called "ma'am" everywhere I go, it's the simplest payment for my rigorous 4-year preparation as a BSE student of UNP. //

//To be written in their slam book as their favorite teacher, it's a touching flattery. //

//And to hear that they succeed in their life somehow because I've been one of their inspirations....that is living life... eternally. //

Assignment#2:

//**Technology: Boon or Bane?**//



//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Technology is like raging water that has carved new paths on the lives of men. Through this we were able to make a leap from a slow revolving world into a fast and innovative one. But just like a coin tossed in the air, it doesn't have only one side, because no matter what the situation is, there's still a good aspect of every negative situation and there is a bad side of every positive happening. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I believe that technology is a boon. If we were about to think about those years when people die of pneumonia or measles without any medication, when parents were terrified because they cannot do something to save their son or daughter, then we would realize the great help of antibiotics. If we would reminisce those days when writing research papers requires dictionary, encyclopedia and a trip to the catalogs in the library and when acquiring information is only possible by a journey in a hundred piles of books in a large library then we would be grateful for the convenience given by just a click on the internet. If one would consider those years when transporting from miles to miles is impossible and takes a day or more, then we would be thankful for the different vehicles intented like cars, ships and off course airplanes. If we would consider those times when news doesn't have wings and travel very slow, then we would appreciate the different medias like televisions and radios. If we would take time to realize those times, I think all will agree with me in saying that technology is a boon. // //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">But as time goes by, the coin of technology was flipped and its bad side was shown. The benefit given by drugs to make the life span of longer was turned and shifted into a worse utilization. Drugs were abused and became an addiction which in turn caused crimes such as rape, stealth and killing. The internet is a very convenient tool for learning but most of the times people use it more for entertainment and satisfaction. Facebook, Twitter and online games dominate most of the screen of every computer. I'm not saying that these are bad, actually it is a mode for socialization, but I think it became a barrier for physical interraction which supposed to be much better. Aside from this, young people are exposed to pornography which should not be. Another is the effect of vehicle, because of too much reliance on modes of transportation, pollution has been produced and the phenomenon called global warming was known. Media has also been abused in terms of editing, that it distorts or skews the meaning of what really happen and sometimes it has also been used to communicate war, bad attitudes and immoral ideas. //

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">We have used technology a lot that we forget our potential capabilities. **We have used it a lot that we have flipped its wrong side.** And now I wonder, if technology is the bane or we, humans who have the control. Are we the one who are responsible for the disadvantages of the thing we must call gift? Yes or no? //