Hi, I am Taryn Schollar and I am a third year student at the University of Johannesburg. I am majoring in History and English in the FET phase. I would like to go as far as I can one day and eventually get my doctorate in Education and become a lecturer and maybe even a Dean of the Education Faculty, but in doing that I enjoy working with children and watching them learn new and important things. I would like to start doing some community service, in my spare time, as i absolutely LOVE helping people and socialising in this kind of environment. I think that this is a very important occupation being a teacher as we are teaching our future generations and the outcomes are from what they as learners and students learn from us.

My blog addresses the topic of "Old School versus New School" this is such a stereotypical title for many things, but there has been a play on the words, surely you can see this seeming that we are dealing with school. Was the old better then the new or is the new better then the old???????????

Well, in this case I tend to sit on the fence, although In this blog I cannot seem to lean towards one than the other. I feel that both "Old School" as well as "New School" has just as many pros and cons as the other. Old School dealt with many tactics that are not available today anymore in schools such as corporal punishment and Afrikaans and English being the only mediums of instruction. Whereas in today's society there are eleven official languages, corporal punishment no longer exists, there is the new curriculum known as OBE and we deal with the latest on the market, which is technology being incorporated in our methds of teaching. Before there were no solutions for issues such as inclusion, dealing with learning barriers and having equality and diversity in schools.

I feel that both forms of schooling are good to some extent, but they can both have their downfalls, such as barriers with using technology in the classroom and outside of it. Perhaps you may have an old school teacher with limited knowlede, teaching way advanced learners with knowledge on these devices already, the teacher may then be unsuccessful in her teaching and learners will take advantage of this. You then may have an up- to- date teacher with technology, but then they experience barriers in the classroom with students who do not have the technology or understand it. The case may be that this is a rural school and do not have the sufficient facilities.

As for the "oldies" this is the new way of the future whether we like it or not and we not going back, but continually moving forward. So get techno- advanced today!!!!I am not saying that technology is all good as it is not, but without in the day and era, you are lost without it!!!!!!! So what do you think????????????????????/