The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued Circular 32/2020 / TT-BGDĐT on the regulations of secondary schools, secondary schools and secondary schools with many levels of education, in which the new point is “secondary school students and High school can use cell phones in class time to study when allowed by the teacher. At the same time, teachers are no longer prohibited from using cell phones while teaching in class. “
Regulations express open thinking
As a teacher who has allowed students to use phones in history lessons for the past 2 years, teacher Nguyen Viet Dang Du, head of the history division of Nguyen Du High School (District 3), said that the application tool IT is always bilateral and must have specific, clear and special regulations that the forms of applied teaching must show specific purposes, not form. For example, telephones are used for discussions, group work, tests … but not always.
Professor Pham Le Thanh from Tan Phu – High School (Ho Chi Minh City) said: This is open and transcendental thinking to optimize the application of information technology to teaching and learning. gaming in the age of digital life. Mobile phones, smart phones are tools that most students have, this is a tool to help improve their teaching activities, students update new information, news or references in some way. fast and convenient in every lesson. Especially, students do it many times when they take the questionnaire in the built-in app on their phone, helping them to adapt to the trend of the Ministry’s next innovation of the national high school exam method on computers.
Turn your phone into a learning tool
However, to use mobile phones effectively during class time rather than “ban” before, they still “use it secretly,” said Professor Pham Le Thanh that teachers and students must have training sessions. training, uniform standards exchange for students to use smart phones scientifically, with the word “smart” in learning and group activities, … then this will bring many positives.
Similarly, a nature teacher at Ngo Quyen High School (District 7, Ho Chi Minh City) also said: “Information about applicability or chronology in textbooks, especially in natural sciences, is like chemistry. Because the book was published a long time ago, it seems to have flaws. To renew themselves, teachers and students must update the news and the new application through the media, the internet. At that time, the smart mobile phones you have will be effective. “
Or Mr. Le Van Linh, Principal of Thanh Binh High School (Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City) also admitted that the ban on the use of telephones in the age of modern technology seems outdated. But for the phone to be a useful learning tool, it is necessary to have a synergy compatible with the rules of the candidates, the culture of use, the curriculum and the educational activities.
Linh also said that in order for this regulation to show its superiority and correctness, schools began to organize smartphone skills sessions for students and develop educational activities in that shows the positive aspects of using the phone. In that moment, students discover that telephones are not only useful for communication and entertainment, but also for effective learning.
And to stipulate that students can use phones in schools to create efficiency, each school develops an implementation policy, each teacher takes the initiative and recommends methods for organizing lessons in time for students to use. Use this device correctly and create excitement in learning.