Teacher Training: Technology savvy teachers
Teacher Training: Technology savvy teachers 2010/12/11 suzie@nst.com.my (From left) Liew Tho Lip, Jayanti S Sothinathan, Ooi Say Tin, Chua Lay Siok, Bushro Ali and Hasnan Hakim Five educators relate how Malaysian teachers have benefited from the Intel Teach Programme, which celebrates a decade of innovative teaching practices this year, writes SUZIEANA UDA NAGU THERE was a time when typing out essays on a word processor passed as “integration of technology into the teaching of language”. English language lecturer Jayanti S Sothinathan recalls this as being a dilemma which English teachers faced a decade ago. “They did not know what language skills they could teach using a computer. (So) they taught students how to type out essays on Microsoft Word and ask them to hand these in as assignments,” says the teacher trainer from Education Ministry’s English Language Teaching Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Teacher trainers, on the other hand, were at a loss to explore crea...