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这是今天练的比较关系的一题。楼主辛苦!
2. Teaching is harder to do today than it was in the past.
With modernization process including the rapid technological advancement, particularly in the last half century, our human history is now counted in a unit of decade, rather than longer periods such as centuries. As a result, more and more high-tech products come into being with some devices even become daily necessities such as smartphones, laptops, as well as popular chatting Apps. On the one hand, modernization leads to positive improvements in teaching including higher efficiency in connecting teachers, parents and students; on the other hand, however, it also brings about unexpected outcomes of harder teaching than it was in the past.
2) Body one
First of all, it is the technology itself underlies this predicament of teaching because all parties, especially students, tend to focus on technology rather than education. Let me take the omnipresent on-line chatting app WeChat for example. Because of the universal metropolitan problems of traffic congestions and fast working pace of parents, the two parties, teachers and parents, are now getting increasing difficulties in communicating each other face to face. As an alternative, now teachers generally introduce this app to assign homework so that parents can get involved at the same time without the need to go to school and talk to teachers. Seemingly perfect, however, it leads to the severe question, that is, the core party in the teaching activity, students are now so obsessed to these apps that they are almost distracted from their study. What I mean is that you can’t expect mass adolescents to be effective time planners as successful adults. Hence unluckily, being obsessed by high-tech instruments, students can hardly focus on their studies.
3) Body two
Apart from obsession to high-tech, the arousal of self-awareness of students at an earlier age also results in the current harder teaching situation. As we know, students in the past had far less access to the outside world consequently making teaching a much easier job. Since the emergence of multimedia era, students can now feel free to get to know the outside world as long as they are willing to obtain information. And unfortunately, although this situation has caught on people’s eyes, it is beyond our control. So in this interactive process with the outside world, students acquire far more information than their pioneers did in the past. The media itself cannot be a filter. So no matter good or bad, students just take in and gradually form their own ideas about the world. Upon this, it is impossible for teachers and parents to change their self-sustained opinions.
4) Body three
If we adults had enough patience and love for students in trouble, the situation would not be that bad. Unluckily, the supervising parties in teaching, mainly parents and schools, are just lack of love and patience for a variety of reasons. For parents, as we discussed before, they are usually in trouble themselves mainly busy dealing with daily chores in the office and making money, which causes them spare much less time to their kids than parents did in the past and subsequently, lack of communication and trust. For schools, the situation can be even worse. Under the increasing pressure of getting higher average grades of students, schools now put most of the resources and caring into those subjects that have practical meanings such as math, physics, etc. Seldom does a school or an individual teacher in the system care about students’ real thinking. Hence, with the addition of the above two points, students in the long run will tend to deal with problems only by themselves, and reversely, making teaching more difficult.
5) Conclusion
Therefore, at the best era it may be, teaching, which is so-called the essential momentum in human world, is now in an emergency to get out of the current dilemma for the good of all parties, and above all, our future.
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