LESSON 5: STATE OF THE ART APPLICATION PRACTICES

LESSON 5: STATE OF THE ART APPLICATION PRACTICES

A.     Summary

Looking through progressive state policies that support technology-in-education, and other new developments in pedagogical practice, our educators today have become more aware and active in adopting state-of-the-art educational technology practices they can possibly adopt.

Recent changes have also occurred in the area of pedagogical theory and practice.it is now accepted that the contribution of the computer to pedagogy makes up for “good instruction.” Owning to the development, teachers must therefore acquire or improve on their computer skills, as well as their “computers-in-the classroom” skills. The following trends should also be recognized by educators.

·         Through school or training center computer courses, present-day students have become computer literate. They send e-mail, prepare computer encoded class reports, even make a power point presentation sometimes to the surprise of their media tradition-bounded teachers.

·         Following the call for developing critical thinking among students, teachers have deemphasized rote learning and have spent more time in methods to allow students to comprehend/ internalize lessons.

·         Shifting focus from lower-level traditional learning outcomes, student’s assessment/examinations have included measurements of higher level learning outcomes such as creative and critical thinking skills.

·         Recent teaching-learning models have paved the way for instructional approaches in which students rely less on teachers as information-givers, and instead more on their efforts to acquire information, build their own knowledge, and solved problems.

B.     Reflection

Some teachers nowadays are still having a hard time understanding why technology should be integrated in the teaching-learning process. But some of the teachers who are enrolled in educational technology subject and who are under the training of ICT, can now understand why we need to integrate technology in teaching-learning process.

Some of the teacher believe that, integrating technology in teaching-learning process is just time consuming and expensive, they also fear the idea that computer might replace in the future. Especially now that technology is already a part of the 21^st century learner.

As teacher we should be open minded to the idea that technology is now important to educational system most specially that we are now dealing a 21^st century learner. And since we cannot avoid the integration of technology in instruction, we should embrace and include this in our classroom pedagogy.