In their article, “Paulo Freire and ICTs: Liberatory Education Theory in a Digital Age,” John F. Freie and Susan M. Behuniak mainly discuss liberation and oppression in education when ICTs involved. They stand on the same side as Paulo Freire, arguing that the dominant tendency of computers employed in college class reinforced Freire’s “banking system” type of education. They also presented Freire’s Liberatory Pedagogy and applied different types of ICTs to prove the reliability of Freire’s theory in today’s digital age. They want readers to be more sensitive to the political nature of the technologies.
They begin with a review of the digital technologies and how different scholars interpret the value of all those ICTs employed in the classroom. …show more content…
Under banking education, teachers control everything, they lead the class, and they even manage the thought of the class. They are oppressors and students are objects, “empty jugs”, waiting to be filled in. Freie and Behuniak also put it to a higher standard, to a larger social scale. Banking education is referred as the third face of power, a “hidden” form of control of the citizenry. So Freie and Behuniak then tell us what is liberatory education. Liberatory education relies on practice. The understanding of knowledge consists the act of cognition. So teachers should create the possibility for the production or construction of …show more content…
The benefit of clickers is that all the student can get involved in the class, which is a great opportunity for introverted students to express their thought through. Teachers can also get the satisfaction of getting immediate feedback from students. However, many people claim that the participation of clicker is fraudulent participation. It only gives the appearance of participation but not covering up the fact that teacher controls the subject. Clickers help oppressors to force students to accept the world of the teacher controlled classrooms. The participation of clicker is so
They begin with a review of the digital technologies and how different scholars interpret the value of all those ICTs employed in the classroom. …show more content…
Under banking education, teachers control everything, they lead the class, and they even manage the thought of the class. They are oppressors and students are objects, “empty jugs”, waiting to be filled in. Freie and Behuniak also put it to a higher standard, to a larger social scale. Banking education is referred as the third face of power, a “hidden” form of control of the citizenry. So Freie and Behuniak then tell us what is liberatory education. Liberatory education relies on practice. The understanding of knowledge consists the act of cognition. So teachers should create the possibility for the production or construction of …show more content…
The benefit of clickers is that all the student can get involved in the class, which is a great opportunity for introverted students to express their thought through. Teachers can also get the satisfaction of getting immediate feedback from students. However, many people claim that the participation of clicker is fraudulent participation. It only gives the appearance of participation but not covering up the fact that teacher controls the subject. Clickers help oppressors to force students to accept the world of the teacher controlled classrooms. The participation of clicker is so