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.

LESSON 4: BASIC CONCEPT ON INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN INSTRUCTION

LESSON 4: BASIC CONCEPT ON INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN INSTRUCTION

A.     Summary

There is a lingering issue on how educational technology is integrated in the teaching learning process. This is due to the fact that the mere use of the computer does not mean technology has already been integrated in instruction. For example, computer games may not relate at all to education, much less to classroom instruction.

If one is looking for external manifestation of technology integration into instruction, here are some:

·         There’s a change in the way classes are traditionally conducted

·         The quality of instruction is improved to a higher level in such a way that could not have been achieved without educational technology

·         There is planning by the teacher on the process of determining how and when technology fits into the teaching-learning process

·         The teacher stets instructional strategies to address specific instructional issues/problems

·         The use of technology provides the opening of opportunities to respond to these instructional issues/problem

·         In sum, technology occupies a position in the instructional process

B.     Reflection

In integrating technology in the teaching-learning process, we should also think when and how we should use the instructional materials. We should also consider our viewer and we should also think if that instructional material fits for the audience.

We should also consider if the given activity can help the students to integrate. By this we can achieve an interactive class. Just like planning the lesson plan, we should also prepare and plan our instructional materials to be presented in the class to achieve a successful teaching-learning process. This will also, activate the minds of the students.

LESSON 3: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

LESSON 3: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

A.     Summary

To provide confidence to educators that they are taking the right steps in adopting technology in education, it is good to know that during the last few years, progressive countries in the Asian Pacific region have formulated state policies and strategies to infuse technology In school. The reason for thus move is not difficult to understand since there is now a pervasive awareness that nation’s socio-economic success in the 21^st century is linked to how well it can complete in a global Information and Communication technology (ICT) region. This imperative among nations has therefore given tremendous responsibilities on educators to create an educational technology environment in schools. And since it is understood that the state policies will continue to change, it is helpful to examine prevailing ICT policies and strategies of five progressive states/city, namely; New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

New Zealand

The government with the education and technology sectors, community groups, and industry envisions supporting to the development of the capability of schools to use information and communication technologies in the teaching and learning and in administration. Their strategy is to improve learning outcomes for students using ICT to support the curriculum. And they focus in infrastructure for increasing schools access to ICTs to enhance education.

Australia

In the Adelaide declaration and national goals for goals for schools, information technology is one of the eight national goals/learning areas students should achieve. Students should be confident, creative and productive users of new technologies, particularly ICTs, and understand the impact of these technologies on society. The plans for achieving the national goal for IT are left to individual states and territories with Educational Network Australia (EdNa) as the coordinating and advisory body.

Malaysia

Technology plays many roles in Smart school from facilitating teaching-and-learning activities to assisting with school management. Fully equipping a school includes; classrooms with multimedia, presentation facilities, e-mail, and groupware for collaborative work, and library media center with database for multimedia courseware and network access to internet.

Singapore

The master plan has four key dimensions;

1.      curriculum and assessment

2.      learning resources

3.      teaching development

4.      physical and technological infrastructure

Hong Kong

Government raises the quality of school education by promoting the use of IT in teaching and learning. The IT initiatives are; on average, 40 computers for each primary school and 82 computers for each secondary school, and about 85,000 IT training places for each teacher at four levels.

B.     Experience

In the above summary, we really can tell that technology has already penetrated the education system. It really improved the teaching-learning process of the five developing countries. Here in the Philippines, public schools lack of proper facilities in integrating technology in the teaching-learning process, even private schools do not have that proper technology just like the five countries above.

As a product of a public school, I can really testify that Philippines are really far behind compared to the other countries. Government has allotted big budget for the Department of Education but despite of the big budget, still, public schools do not have that proper facilities. Yes, some public schools has the computer laboratory and with a few units of computers, where user and computer has ration of 5:1. This is a sad reality that is experiencing in most public schools in the Philippines.

C.     Reflection

As stated in the summary above, government is really supporting each school to really pursue, the integration of technology in Education system. They really are the one who wants to improve their education system, which is a big help to the students. For this will really give them a proper training.

In the Philippines, this is the problem because we lack the support from our government which is the one who can really help us in achieving this kind of improvements. We are really far behind when we talk about technology, most specially in the public schools; students don’t know how to manipulate computers. Some of them, instead of using the computer as educational resources, this is use in a way that students will lost in their attention to learning. Some of them use the technology as their past time by playing in the computer instead of researching their assignment.

This is the reason why some of the teachers who are not enrolled in educational technology subject, do not allowed the school to integrate technology in the teaching-learning process, because this they understand. Other reason also is that, they are afraid that computers might replace teachers in the future.

D.     Application

Our government should adapt that idea that we need to improve our educational system here in the Philippines. Teachers also should need to be open minded in accepting that technology will really improve our education system, to achieve the successful teaching-learning process.

LESSON 2: AN OVERVIEW: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

LESSON 2: AN OVERVIEW: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

A.     Summary

Educational Technology 2 is conserved with “integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning”. Specifically this is focused on introducing, reinforcing, supplementing and extending the knowledge and skills to learners so that they can become exemplary users of educational technology. Necessarily, Educational Technology 2 will involve a deeper understanding of the computer as well as hands- on application of the computer skills.

In essence, the curse aims to infuse technology in the student-teachers training, helping them to adapt and meet rapid and continuing technological changes, particularly in the thriving global information and communication technology (ICT) environment.

More specifically, the course objectives are:

·         To provide education in the use of technology n instruction by providing knowledge and skills on technology integration-in-instruction to learners

·         To impart learning experiences in instructional technology supported instructional planning

·         To acquaint students on information technology or IT-related learning theories with the computer as a tutor

·         To learn to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources

·          To engage learners on practical technology integration issues including managing IT classrooms, use of the internet for learning, cooperative learning through the use of information technology

·         To in calculate higher-level thinking and creativity among students while providing them knowledge of IT- related learning theories

B.     Experience

In educational technology, it introduces a lot, like the web- projects and resources. It gives another exiting learning for the students; in here it gives opportunity for the students to explore the internet and how to properly use it, most specially in doing research. In ET2 also introduce the online messaging which is the use of e-mail, and introduce a web-project like joining the blog.

C.     Reflection

In educational technology 2, it introduces a lot of project that could really enhance the things that we learned from educational technology 1. It helps use explore the internet, and to properly use the net which very useful for our research in the future. This learning will help us on the future during our teaching.

In learning these new experiences, this will not only help in our teaching in the future but also in other work relating to technology. Actually, if you are computer literate this will be a big advantage when apply in the future, because of the fact that our future will be already run by the technology, and students are also very literate in using the computers.

Learning these new experiences will help us in our future teaching, to achieve a successful teaching-learning process. This will give us better presentations of our lesson that will give us more interactive class.

D.     Application

If everyone will be interested in learning about technology, they realize that technology is a very helpful tool in achieving a successful teaching-learning process. We also give a good discussion to our students and we also present our lesson very well where all our students will very interactive because of the exiting experience that a technology can offer to the teaching- learning process.

LESSON 1: A REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 1

LESSON 1: A REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 1

A.     Summary

The Educational Technology 1 course has truly paved the way for the learner to become aware, appreciative and equipped to use Educational Technology tools ranging from traditional to modern Educational media.

The application of educational technology to instruction has showed the four phases of application of educational technology in teaching and learning process, namely; setting of learning objectives, designing specific learning experiences, evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experiences and learning objective, and revision as needed of the whole teaching- learning process, or elements of it, for further improving future instructional activities.

In sum Educational Technology 1 served:

·         To orient the learner to the pervasiveness of educational technology in the society

·         To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media for the avenues teaching-learning process in the school

·         To uplift the learner to human learning through the use of learning technology

·         To impart skills in planning, designing, using and evaluating the technology-enriched teaching-learning process

·         To acquaint learners on the basic aspects of community education, functions of the school media center, and finally

·         To introduce the learner to what is recognized as the third revolution in education, the computer

B.     Experiences

Technology now is considered to be as the third revolution in education. So, students and teacher are required to be involved in learning this. As students in education technology 1 before, I realize that, integrating technology in the teaching-learning processes much better than the traditional way of presenting our lesson. Integrating technology in our lesson will give better and interactive discussion than having it in a traditional way. This will awaken the minds of the students because this experience is something new to them. As a future teacher also, I’m very excited to present this to my students.

C.     Reflection

Technology now has a greater and big help in our society. Nowadays, works and other things can now be run by technology, with the help of this, it will make the work easier and faster. But we cannot deny the fact that our country is far behind from other country. Technology makes also a division in the developing country and slow developing country. If we talk about technology that was integrated in the teaching- learning process I can say that Philippines is really far behind.

Yes we have a lot of students that are willing to learn and teachers that are willing also to teach, but we cannot deny the fact that we lack the facilities. Sad to say but Philippines main problem is that with the problem of technology, we are really far behind compare to the other country.

Technology is very useful to the society, it is just easy to learn how to manipulate it, but we lack the facilities, yes we have donations from the private sectors but its not enough, some of the computers in the laboratory are not allowed to be used in the school. But if we are going to use the ration of the user will be 5:1, and it’s really frustrating.

If we can really educate people about the technology, and if we have complete facilities, this will really help us not just in the office or in public works but also in school, which can help improved the teaching-learning process of every school.

D.     Application

If we have a students who are willing to learn and teachers who are willing to teach, then its about time that our government should something.  The government should put a lot of computers in public schools. And admistrators also should be open to the fact that teacher and learner should be thought about technology for this will help us achieve a successful teaching-learning process. Teacher should not be afraid to be replace by the computers, because humans are still higher than any technology and humans are still much intelligent that technology.