Monday, 27 August 2018

Using Webfolio For The Improvement Of Education

By Andrew Turner


People depend always on technologies for it gives more convenience to the lives of everyone. Because of that, technology keeps on developing and evolving as the world change. The use of technology was also applied in education to improve teaching strategies of educators. So that students or learners will improve more, maybe this is the opportunity for schools to introduce the use of webfolio.

Information and Communication Technology, commonly known as ICT, had been implemented during 1980s. Basically, ICT is the application of technology in order to access, collect, edit and deliver an information to the learners. Programming was taught at schools and during that era, Computer Based Training had been discovered. ICT is quite effective in teaching for it can increase the motivation and productivity of a student.

Schools had adopted internet as a means to help students gather and share information. With that, educators should enforce the use of web-based portfolio. Its functions are like that traditional portfolio but the difference is works are published on the web. Students will not need bond papers and spend money to print their outputs if that will be implemented for they can just publish it on their website.

Nowadays, internet became a huge part of the daily lives of individuals. Mostly, people spend more than five hours diving in the virtual world and looking for new information that can entertain them. Almost all things can be found in that world that is why it became more reliable.

Because most people rely always on the internet, some things become neglected. Number one is education. The downside of a virtual world is it really pulls you to that world, making you fail on coming back to reality. For that reason, Google became your instructor now instead of your frail Math teacher. And education would not allow that to happen.

For that reason, new techniques are needed to improve the educational system. Writing a reflection paper using Microsoft Word is not enough. Students need something in which they can learn significant lessons and at the same time explore the use of internet.

Social media sites have influenced many human beings to interact with others through posting and sharing. Most students are enthralled with that activity, therefore web-based portfolio can make their productivity increase. Though most professionals are using this for business purposes, using this in a school can definitely enhance the computer skills of a student and more likely make them enthusiastic on learning.

Perhaps this is the time to improve the educational system by engaging student in using web-based portfolio. Teaching strategies can turn obsolete and maybe by letting the students explore in that platform with the guidance of a teacher can enhance them intellectually. However, implementing it is somehow difficult right now for many reasons. It still takes time for this to develop.

Versatility and flexibility are very important in teaching. As a teacher, you should learn more strategies and know how to use it in the class. It may be difficult to implement this electronic version of portfolio at this moment but perhaps in the future, this will be applied.




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