Q What do you think of the new interactive teaching aid?
While the new interactive teaching aid may seem like an easier way to reduce workload, in the long run it cannot replace the effect of students learning directly from fully trained and qualified teachers in the classroom.
Without the teacher physically being at the front of the classroom, a number of things will happen. Not only will the attention of the student be less rapt, but connections between teacher and student are lost.
Students who find it hard to concentrate on a teacher will find it even harder to focus on a projection, and will not absorb information as well.
But most importantly, without the teacher being present in each class, a rapport is not properly established between the instructor and the pupil, a link vital to the pursuit of self-motivated learning.
The addition of 'middlemen' to the question-asking process can only hinder it, again removing this bridge of support and understanding.
Setting the student farther apart from the teacher disconnects the two from each other more and more, and soon each will not know the other as well as they would have by being constantly together in a classroom setting.
