Saturday 1 September 2012

LESSON 17- EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2 PRACTICUM

            Educational Technology 2 aims to provide new teachers to use the new trend of technology in the teaching learning process of students. Educational technology 2 promises to bring the student teacher and the professional teacher trainee to the challenge of a new age-integrating technology in teaching-learning process. It is said to be the preparation for the future teachers to counteract with the challenges in teaching in this new generation. Beginning form Lesson 1 up to the end lesson we have learned that everything needs to be applied. Through practice everything would be perfect. And by knowing the basics you can then be able to understand on how to enter in a more complex program that can be more efficient in the educational system. 

LESSON 16- THE INTERNET AND EDUCATION

                     Internet the most popular and talked computer network system of the world it has been a necessity for some people .this has a great impact in the learning process of students and teacher also. Almost everything is to be found in the internet, that’s why many of the teachers now days needs to be computer literate to cope up with the high tech world. There are numerous seminars and trainings that are now offered and integrated to them to help them cope up. Because some teachers who knows how to surf the internet they give assignments which are to be found in the internet. And mostly there are online teachers who teaches their students through the use of SKYPE applications wherein, wherever you are in this world you can have a teaching that is face to face . So that’s how powerful and influencing internet is now a days in our lives. 

LESSON 15- UNDERSTANDING HYPERMEDIA

          Hypermedia nothing but multimedia wherein it can help in the teacher-student learning process. It is said to be as educational computer software wherein information is presented and student activities are integrated in a virtual learning environment .It provides autonomous learning, wherein the learner have the control to make his own discussion on the path, flow of instruction. And he has a wide range of navigation routes depending on his ability and motivation. All of these are usable with the presence of a tea her because a teacher still is the one who leads the class and the hypermedia is just an instrument to used 

LESSON 14- THE SOFTWARE AS AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE


              What do we mean by Software? Software is the one who runs the computer it is the heart of the computer without software a computer won’t work. It is system that commands the computer machine what to do. The monitor, mouse, CPU these are the parts of a computer Microsoft Windows is the most widely used software in the while world .Wherein it is the easiest software to be used. Through this a teacher and a student can then got instructional materials that could be used in the teaching- learning process.  . Instructional software is those which can be downloaded in the internet. But as a teacher they should only choose instructional software that can be used in the teaching-learning process. 

LESSON 13- COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH THE COMPUTER

           Computer, fairly natural learning vehicle for cooperative learning this has been agreed upon researchers, but for them educators they still wary about the computer role in cooperative learning. The goal of the Department of Education and the Government od to have a ratio of 1:1 wherein one computer per student .But still it is a big challenge not only in the Philippines but also in other developing countries due to lack of funds and resources. That’s why many of the students would go out and use computer in internet cafĂ©.  Through this cooperative learning then takes place. But it can never be called cooperative learning of the members of the group didn’t share a common goal, interdependence, interaction, individual accountability and social skills.

LESSON 12- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING


                When we say traditional classroom it is when a teacher is the one who dominates the teaching process. He is the only source of knowledge or the fountain of information to students. In Student Centered Learning there is an interaction between the student and the teacher .The student is the one who will discuss to the whole class wherein the teacher is has given him the topic to be discussed. And through this the students then become active and develop independence and self-awareness in the learning process.
          
              The use of technology then takes place through using Microsoft PowerPoint or Word Processing his discussion with the classes. And the teacher then would input some ideas which are not discussed by the student in class. But all of these are still in the process and not yet implemented all over the Philippines but in some areas these are used depending on the availability of the gadgets. And as a whole, still the teacher is the one who manages the classroom. And is still the one who guides the student.