HomeEducation in JapanAs English teachers here in Japan, what kind of technology would you like to see implemented at your workplace to help make work easier and to help you focus more on your lessons?
As English teachers here in Japan, what kind of technology would you like to see implemented at your workplace to help make work easier and to help you focus more on your lessons?
A computer (notebook is fine) hooked up to a TV screen (doesn’t have to be huge).
Once you have access to a computer and the internet, so much more becomes possible.
Time carved out of the curriculum to teach junior and senior high school students about digital literacy, privacy, appropriate use of images, how to avoid plagiarism of digital resources, how to email a teacher (what to write in the subject line, how to open and close an email).
Every student and teacher gets a Chromebook. Mandatory paid training for teachers
I teach business English to adults in a multinational company, and we are given all kinds of equipment: an instructor PC, projector, iPads. But it would be great to have an interactive whiteboard.
A massage chair in the breakroom lol.
I kind wish those spaceship 1980s style language labs were still working. Interactive whiteboards and tablets are nice and all, but just don’t have that startrek feel.
Bluetooth speakers with micro SD cards that can swap in and out
I work at a private jr/sr high, and while strongly agree with what /u/Yabakunai mentioned, I’ll add that there is a lot of redundancy at my school when it comes to communicating with other teachers. All of our teachers have iPads, which sounds great, but it just means that now everyone has to use an extra medium of communication for the teachers who aren’t tech savvy. In short, everything that is communicated digitally is also printed out and hand delivered (and additionally often read out loud at a meeting of some kind). It’s a small thing but it’s a pet peeve of mine. Schools seem to really struggle to take advantage of technology because the teachers aren’t up to speed.
At the very least, laptops that are younger than my students…
More than one printer per school would be nice 😅 I am an ALT in elementary and junior high school
ES teacher here. Every student has a Chromebook in my city and I am currently using Jamboard for writing letters of the alphabet (I might also try something similar to Microsoft Paint in the future). An app that lets students write uppercase and lowercase letters using the prescribed four lines would help us save a lot of paper. Or an app that tracks a student’s progress with the uppercase and lowercase letters, and accordingly adjust the writing practice exercises would even be better.
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Interactive whiteboards
A computer (notebook is fine) hooked up to a TV screen (doesn’t have to be huge).
Once you have access to a computer and the internet, so much more becomes possible.
Time carved out of the curriculum to teach junior and senior high school students about digital literacy, privacy, appropriate use of images, how to avoid plagiarism of digital resources, how to email a teacher (what to write in the subject line, how to open and close an email).
Every student and teacher gets a Chromebook. Mandatory paid training for teachers
I teach business English to adults in a multinational company, and we are given all kinds of equipment: an instructor PC, projector, iPads. But it would be great to have an interactive whiteboard.
A massage chair in the breakroom lol.
I kind wish those spaceship 1980s style language labs were still working. Interactive whiteboards and tablets are nice and all, but just don’t have that startrek feel.
Bluetooth speakers with micro SD cards that can swap in and out
I work at a private jr/sr high, and while strongly agree with what /u/Yabakunai mentioned, I’ll add that there is a lot of redundancy at my school when it comes to communicating with other teachers. All of our teachers have iPads, which sounds great, but it just means that now everyone has to use an extra medium of communication for the teachers who aren’t tech savvy. In short, everything that is communicated digitally is also printed out and hand delivered (and additionally often read out loud at a meeting of some kind). It’s a small thing but it’s a pet peeve of mine. Schools seem to really struggle to take advantage of technology because the teachers aren’t up to speed.
At the very least, laptops that are younger than my students…
More than one printer per school would be nice 😅
I am an ALT in elementary and junior high school
ES teacher here. Every student has a Chromebook in my city and I am currently using Jamboard for writing letters of the alphabet (I might also try something similar to Microsoft Paint in the future). An app that lets students write uppercase and lowercase letters using the prescribed four lines would help us save a lot of paper. Or an app that tracks a student’s progress with the uppercase and lowercase letters, and accordingly adjust the writing practice exercises would even be better.