Post #2A: My thoughts about Technology of Teaching.

I have certainly enjoyed reading through the reading materials provided for our learning and assignment. I have learn a great deal about myself and life in general from reading through this article. i reccomend this readings to anyone who wants to look in to pursuing this field.

One of the cool things i have learned for myself from reading Technology of Teaching is just that, the fact that teaching is technology. Everytime i see and hear the word technology, the only things that come to mind are computers, internet, digital cameras, vedios, TV, phones, etc. I never thought of teaching as a technology, but if you actually think about it, all those machines or devices would not function the way they are now, if it wasn't for teaching and learning, developing and implementing some source of informaiton created in them by technicians and compilers. In fact, they would have not even existed if it wasn't for the people that invented them because of the knowlegde they have received from teaching. So, in other words, no teaching, no technology.

I was taken back to the mission, when i was reading through this vital learning. I was reminded of a way of teaching that I have always used when teaching a brand new investigator. It is referred to as baby steps.

In additional, when teaching a potential member of the Chruch, it's like teaching a new born baby. You have to start from the very beginning. You have to start teaching from scratch. You have to teach and show them how, step by step, one step at a time. When a baby learns how to climb a ladder, he has to know how to move from one step to another until he or she reaches the top. We all know what would happen if trying to jump from the bottom to the top. It is not going to be good. Any baby needs a milk before any other type of food. Investigators of the Church need milk before meat.

Moreover, one more thing that came to my mind while I was pondering over this article, is the fact that unprepared and unproductive missionaries cause themselves, and other members of the Church a lot of work, time and effort to try to work with these people. This is very well related to one of the paragraphs I read in the very beginning of this reading; "ineffective trainning is costing business... hidden cost of lost opportunity. Employees who are never trained to effectively or fully utilize the technologies of their work or provide effective customer service add up to a tremendous loss in productivity."