Taken from https://www.udel.edu/sbct/
Beliefs on Student Behavior By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed. School of English Faculty of Social Sciences Universidad Latina de Costa Rica Wednesday, April 26, 2016 Post 258
Teaching in higher education is a fascinating area of work; seeing learners how – step y step- develop their knowledge and how it can be applied in various working settings is rather satisfying for any faculty member. Though it is a great field to work in, we come to question several behaviors students hold or even our beliefs towards those conducts. Now, if you were prompted with the following, how would you react and what would you write? Write down three statements you believe about your students and their behavior. On what do you base these statements? Reflect on your beliefs about your students and their behavior. As part of this exercise I was given in an online course on higher education, I came up with my statements and with my explanations. What can be concluded? Take a look at this.
Students are not that technologically-oriented. It looks like they are, but technologically speaking they are more into
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being part of their circle of friends and acquaintances. Just because they have a smartphone, it does not mean they are into using technologymediated learning. Students are not that savvy when it comes to technology. Once again, the use of smartphones does not guarantee the use of technology per se. Ss are much more into understanding what new apps there are than what kind of freeware is there to help them learn. More deep learning and engaging activities are needed for them. If technology-mediated activities are meant to be used for objective development and learning consolidating, they need to be modeled and then appealing to them to produce engagement and motivation. As a quick conclusion, it can simply be stated that we faculty member need to
further develop our ethnography of groups of students to really see what it may be happening with all of them. Through our reflective journaling, as this piece, we can get to know more about ourselves as instructors and about our learners in a classroom or in a virtual space.