The Educational Technology 1
course made the learners be aware of the technology used in education such as
instructional technology, educational media and audio-visual aids that helps
the teacher to give a more effective and interesting learning. It also oriented
the learners about the dangers of dehumanization which technology brings into
societies. And introduce learners to what is recognized as the third revolution
in education, the computer.
Educational Technology 2 on the
other hand is concerned with “Integrating Technology into teaching and
learning”, giving hands-on experiences in the application of computer skills.
Especially that today’s learners are already computer literate. But there are
also some gaps that must be bridged. New generations are expected to face the
future professional challenge of a digital world that is why technology
supported skills need to be taught in schools.
Before, students read text
books for their research, projects and assignments, they are independent
learners who are used to working individually, while the new generation of
learners are more social, they love to work with groups, wherein they can
exchange different ideas and come up with better results. They also have lots
of sources to where they would get the information they need for their
schoolwork. And their learning is conducted in a fun, relevant and
instantaneous ways.
There are also called fluency
skills that teachers need to develop in their digital learners. These are
solution, information, collaboration, media, creativity and digital fluency to
equip students for success in the millennial world. And because we are now in a
digital age, we need to adapt the digital learning. This is a literacy that
uses digital tools in preparing students in facing a high-tech world.
Evaluation must be geared to assessment of essential knowledge and skills so
that learners can function effectively, productively and creatively in a new
world.
Higher thinking skills and
creativity must be develop among learners and these can be attain using the
four IT-based projects namely resource-based projects, simple creations, guided
hypermedia projects and web-based projects.
As we are facing an evolving
digital world, computers are used as information and communication technology.
Soon computer-assisted instruction was introduced using the principle of
individualized learning. We can also view computer as a tutor allowing
individual students to learn at their own pace, motivate learning through
information needed during the learning process, evaluate students responses
through immediate feedback and give total score to evaluate the total
performance.
Computer is also viewed as the
teacher’s tool in teaching that supports the constructivist and social
constructivist paradigms of learning. Computers are employed as information,
communication, constructive, co-constructive and a situating tool.
And because our curriculum now
is student-centered, unlike the traditional in which context is given much
importance, technology is here as support. Student-centered classroom (SCL)
makes their students active not passive learners wherein they interact with
other learners, are independent and aware of the learning process.
Even if in some less developed
countries, you as a teacher must make shift from traditional to
student-centered learning for the new trend in teaching-and-learning is at the
tip of our fingers. You must make the effort for achieving change for the fact
that it will not only make your students absorb and understand the lessons well
but it will be an easier task for the teacher because with the use of
technology, teaching and learning process will be fast, efficient, fun, easy
and effective and of course it will prepare your students to be globally
competitive professionals someday.
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