Monday, September 13, 2010

Activity 3 Information Technology in Support of Student-Centered Learning

1. Who argued for a highly active and individualized pedagogical methods which place the student
at the center of the teaching-learning process?
Answer: John Dewey

2. Describe a traditional classroom. (You may embed pictures or videos.)
The traditional classroom may observed that are usually arranged with neat columns and rows of student chairs, while the teacher stands in front of the classroom or sits behind his desk.This situation is necessitated by the need to maintain classroom discipline, also to allow the teacher to control classroom activities through lecture presentation and teacher-led discussions.


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3. Describe an SCL classroom. (You may embed pictures and videos.)
  • In SCL classroom their student have now become active not passive learners, who can interact with other learners, demonstrating independence and self-awareness in the learning process.The students in this learning gain much learning because they are the one who will act as a teacher and the teacher is simply sitting and listening to the students presentation.




Activity 2

1. Who introduced constructivism?
ans.Constructivism was introduced by piaget by 1981 and and bruner 1990.

2. This is an effort to show that the construction of knowledge is governed by social, historical and
cultural contexts.
ans.Social Constructivism

3. Who stressed that learning is affected by social influences?

ans. Psychologist Vygotsky stressed that learning is affected by social influences.

4. Give the five ways on how the teacher can employ the computer and discuss each.
The five ways are:

  • An information tool : The computer can provide vast amounts of information in various forms, such as texts, graphics, sound and video.The Internet itself provides an enormous database from which user can access global information resources.The internet on education can be sourced for kinds of educational resources on the internet.It is not enough for learners to download relevant information using the computer as an information tool.
  • A communication tool: Given the fact that the internet can serve as a channel for global communication, the computer can very well be the key tool for video teleconferencing sessions.
  • An constructive tool: The computer itself can be used for manipulating information, visualizing one's understanding, and building new knowledge.
  • As co-constructive tool: One way of co-construction is the use of the electronic whiteboard where students may post notices to a shared document/whiteboard.Students may also co-edit the same document from their home.
  • A situating tool: A flight simulation program is an example of a situating tool which places the user in a simulated flying environment.Multi-User Domains or Dungeons(MUDs), MUD Object Oriented (MOOs), and Multi-User Shared hallucination (MUSHs) are examples of situating system.A school-to-school or classroom-to-classroom environment is possible whereby the user can choose to walk around the campus, talk with other users who are logged to the same site.To caution users, the computer as a situating tool is news and still undergoing further research and development.


Activity 1 Computers as Information and Communication Technology

1. What are the three revolutions of education?
Answer:
The three revolutions of education are:

(
a) the invention of the printing press;

(b
) the introduction of libraries

(c) the invention of the computer


2. What is CAI? (Please give its background.)
Answer:
CAI
means Computer Assisted Instruction.This CAI was using the principle of individualized learning through a positive climate that includes realism and appeal with drill exercises that uses color, music and animation.

3. Give 5 examples of communication media.
Answer: These are the examples of the communication media:
(Internet)
  • E-mail(text and video)
  • Chat rooms
  • Blog sites
  • News services (print, video clip)
  • Music/movie/television room

4. Give 5 examples of audiovisual media.

Answer: These are examples of audiovisual media:
(Multimedia)
  • Text, sound, graphics, chart, photos
  • Power-point presentation
(Internet)
  • Educational websites
  • Software, course wares
  • School registration/records accounting

5. Contrast instructional media and educational communication media.
Answer:
Instructional media consist of audio-visual aids that served to enhance and enrich the teaching-learning process while :
Communication media
comprise the media of communication to audiences including learners using the print, film, radio, television or satellite means of communication.


6. Give 5 examples of computer programs and their capabilities.
Answer:
These are some examples of computer programs:
  • Microsoft Office* programs for composing text, graphics, photos into letters, articles, reports, etc.
  • Power-point* for preparing lecture presentations
  • Excel* for spreadsheets and similar graphic sheets
  • Internet Explorer* Access to the internet
  • Adobe Reader* Graphs/photo composition and editing

Monday, January 25, 2010

my favorite

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

cone of experiences

LESSON 5:Tells about the cone of experience.

The least of cone of experiences are the verbal,visual symbol,recordings,motions picture,educational television,exhibits,study trips,demonstrations,dramatized,contrived experciences,direct purposeful experiences.those experiences that least is one of them it gives the learners to learn base on that experience,if the teacher teach in his/her class, give one experiences that impart on the lesson ..the students can easily get the point of the discussion,,,,i can apply this in my future teaching career in teaching i will base most of my lesson based in my experiences,so that the learning process of the learners can automatically interupt in his/her mind........

SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO TEACHING

LESSON 4:
It tells about the systematic approach to teaching in which the focus in the teaching is the students.At this point in teaching should be systematized the planning of instructional objective on approach in teaching .instructional objective should be the one most to be considered teaching career as very important to present into the student in teaching. so that the student has an interest to learn by the giving instructional objectivethey presented on the class...and also it must be creative so that the students can attentively to listen on the class..

THE ROLE S OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING

LESSON 3: THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING.

Educational technology it has two way ,first is the Traditional Role : It refers to the learner to learn knowledge presented to the teacher, second is the Constructivist way,it refers to the technology helps the learner to build more meaningful an personal interpretation of his /her life.or else the technology gives a way to construct their minds to think based on the technology presented on the class..In teaching we must under go beyond to the lesson...an giving to the student of some research ..which it helps to the student to become active...in participation on class...and their thinking skills was develop.

TECHNOLOGY IS EITHER BOON OR BANE`

Lesson 2:Tell about the technology its either Boon or Bane
Boon it refers as a blessing to all human or the people. And bane its means that it can cause of death or it is harmful to the human.At this point i learned that it depends of the human on how to use the technology that we has that cannot cause herself .Because for me technology is a big blessing for us that we have this thing at this time, because through technology we can work fast in a few minutes searching those difficult words in internet its a big help for them.and i can also apply this for my future teaching career in doing some activities at the school so that my work will fast to finished my activities,and i cannot feel boring in my teaching future career.

MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Lesson 1:EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
It tells about what`s the meaning of educational technology,educational technology is refers from the word technology,comes from the greek word techne,which means craft or art.In this lesson I learned that educational technology is very important for us ,because through technology it helps to the learners his /her work make it easy an faster in doing their daily activities in school.I can apply this learning in my future teaching career by creating my work vey impressive to my class............