Questions for The Technology

Pyramid:
1) What might you find in a classroom
with advanced technology?
- Fixed data projectors, interactive
whiteboards, built-in speakers,
computers with internet access,
overhead projectors (OHP), tape
recorder

2) In classrooms at the point of the

reversed pyramid, what do students
and teachers have?
- Traditional materials

3) Is a lack of technology necessarily

a bar to language learning? (Why /
why not?)
- Not necessary because students
themselves are a source of materials
in terms of participant and imaginers.

Give five examples (of your own or

from the text) of how you can manage
without technology:
- Discussing about families
- Imagine scenes based on
descriptions
- Participate in quizzes
- creating./ mimicking noise heard

4) What is the richest, deepest seam

of gold that will allow you to turn the
pyramid the other way up?
- The internal world of students which
is knowledge

5) Give 3 examples (of your own or

from the text above) of something in
the internal world of the student that
can be used as a resource:
- Creativity
- Imagination
- Organisation

Using Technological
Equipment

Would you rather teach in a fullyequipped classroom, or one with the

bare essentials? Why?
- Fully-equipped because it differs
more varieties and opportunities to
use different strategy and technology

When you were at school, how well

equipped were your classrooms? What
effect did this have?
- Some schools are well-equipped
which may lead the students to have a
meaningful and interactive learning.
The teacher and the students also can
exploit the use of the equipment itself.