During a class discussion about the value of creative writing as a tool through other arts forms such as the visual arts, music, and the performing arts, I was suddenly faced with a lot of terminologies I have never encountered yet in the course of my reading simple literature stuff. I have to admit that even though I belong in this different generation of web blogging and where the spirit of this age speakes the language of speed, I still have to comment on teachers adapting the language of the internet into the classrooms.
I’m afraid one of my teachers is like that, and the problem is that I could not understand what she is trying to say after all. Perhaps she only adores accounting on her experiences in blogging and all her frenzies to the class that she slowly overlooks the language she uses. I still have to understand though that the reason why she does that is because the course demands her that knowledge to be imparted to her students. However, the problem I see there is that the old way of teaching slowly diminishes into our view and we are suddenly faced with a different kind of knowledge that’s still beyond our capacity to learn, quickly. As for me, I still have to go inside an internet cafe just to get in touch with my e-mails, at least. And learning those new online jargons turns the experience not as a chance to widen my knowledge more and appreciate it, but creates another kind of paranoia and fear knowing that I still lack the sufficient knowledge in handling these programs.
What I’m simply trying to say here is that young teachers should not make it a means of imparting academic knowledge jargons usually found online. The prospect of using them is good though, but there are certain limits and teachers should be aware of that. Besides, these teachers may not know what’s playing in the minds of their students, whether they’ve understood them well, or not.
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