Lesson 1: Educational Technology

Lesson 1

Educational Technology

Basically defined by Wikipedia as an array of tools that might prove helpful in advancing student learning, Educational Technology, as I understand it, is the use of advanced tools such as computers, projectors, televisions and all other human inventions, in helping the student learn the fun way.

Theory of practice and design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and resources learning. How could I use this in my future teaching career? Well it will definitely make my job be easier for there's the technology that can help me do it by making the test interactive, fun & convenient. Other than that, teaching itself will be made much easier with the use of Powerpoint presentations, film showings, and online group discussions. You will find it amusing that some students will just refuse to speak in class but are actually talkers in cyberspace.

Educational Technology also known variously as e-learning, instructional technology and learning technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources." The term educational technology is often associated with, and encompasses, instructional theory and learning theory.

It aimed in wanting to employ technology in their teaching, technologists – Web designers, developers, multimedia producers etc – contemplating entering this huge and growing market, educational administrators, learners, potential learners, employers or just about anyone with an interest in learning in the 21st century..

Although technology is widely used in the administration and management of education (e.g. student records, marketing, procurement, finance etc) and in research, educational technology is only concerned with technology as it impacts upon the learning process, e.g. in delivering learning materials, facilitating communication and providing assessment and feedback. As society grows ever-more complex, at an ever-faster rate, so the demand for knowledge increases exponentially, with e-learning emerging as a major channel for meeting this demand.

Lesson 3: The Roles of Educational Technology in Learning

Lesson 3

 The Roles of Educational Technology in Learning

Technology is seen as an integral part of the cognitive activity….This view of distributed cognition significantly impacts how we think of the role of technology in education and training, the focus is not on the individual in isolation and what he or she knows, but on the activity in the environment. It is the activity – focused and contextualized- that is central... The process of construction is directed towards creating a world that makes sense to us, that is adequate for our everyday functioning.

Technology can be a medium for information and a partner for the teacher in delivering that information to the student. Either way, it helps the student understand their lessons better and increase their learning skills. Most especially, critical thinking is developed. With technology, students will yearn to learn even after student life. Information is readily available. With developed critical thinking skills, they would know what information to accept as truth.

Lesson 18:Roles and Functions of and Educational Media Center

Lesson 18

Roles and Functions of and Educational Media Center

        The Educational Media Center or EMC is the media depot of a school. It is where all instructional media, equipment and other informational materials are collected, stored, and utilized. A functional EMC eases the jobs of teachers. Less time is spent searching for the right instructional material to use in class. EMC personnel can help in identifying the best materials to use and in what media. Teachers and students alike can also be taught how to use new instructional media that are available.

        Promoting the use of these materials will help maximize the capacity of the students and teachers in using such materials and more importantly, maximize the learning capability of the students through these materials.

Lesson 17:Assessment in a Constructivist, Technology-Supported Learning

Lesson 17

Assessment in a Constructivist, Technology-Supported Learning

        The aim of studying should not be just to pass the test but rather to learn. Studying through memorization may help but the topic should also be understood. The student must be able to connect what he/she has memorized to how he/she understood it. There has to be meaning to what was memorized or else, learning is not gained.

        Having this kind of assessment is the ideal of having ed.tech. subjects.By this.we teachers to be can have more resources that we can use during practice teaching.These lesson is very useful in helping us gain more reserves in our lessons.

Lesson 16:Using the Project-based Learning Multimedia as a Teaching-Learning Strategy

Lesson 16

Using the Project-based Learning Multimedia as a Teaching-Learning Strategy

      Collaborative work will help students better remember the lesson. Their involvement in the project will help imprint in their minds the details of the lesson. Much more, students learn to analyze, research, organize, assess, make decisions, manage time and work with others.

      In the process, the teacher also learns many things from the students. It is a give-and-take process. The end-result of the project will give satisfaction to both teacher and students.

      The use of multimedia in teaching is an effective way for emphasizing the lesson down to its very little details.

Lesson 15:Project-based Learning and Multimedia: What Is It?

Lesson 15

Project-based Learning and Multimedia: What Is It?

      A project based learning method is a comprehensive approach to instruction. Your students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science, and technology.

          Project-based multimedia learning involves the whole class, whether in groups or as a whole. If the students understand what output is to be expected of their project, they actively participate and each student contributes to the completion of the project. The teacher can only set the goals to be achieved by the students by the end of the project and supervise them.

Lesson 14: MAXIMIZING THE USE OF THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR AND THE CHALKBOARD

Lesson 14

 MAXIMIZING THE USE OF THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR AND THE CHALKBOARD

Chalkboard and overhead projector are very useful tools in a a discussion.Maximizing the use of these tools make them more useful and effective.

There's a trivia on why chalkboards are usually called blackboard. Way back then, chalkboards were painted black and white chalk was used. Then people discovered that green is much more pleasing to the eyes and so they started painting it green. But the term blackboard was already hooked up with the tool.

There's a good side to the OHP. When you use a computer, you usually store your presentation in a flash drive. The downside to this is when it has a virus or your flash drive is not detected by the computer. With the overhead projector, you don't have to worry about these things. Just turn it on, put your transparencies on and viola! you get a presentation.

 Just make sure that you don't use them too because you and your students may become too dependent in these tools.

Lesson 13:Teaching with Visual Symbols

Lesson 13

Teaching with Visual Symbols

Teaching with visual symbols helps teachers and students recognize and identify topics that the symbols will represent.Working either independently or collaboratively, students can plan and make visuals that convey their understanding of a literary character, conflict, or theme. Visual representations might include posters, drawings, collages, photographs, bulletin boards, sculpture, jewelry, or costumes.These representations may become more effective if presented with more effort and interesting features.The use of visual symbols depends on how thew teacher uses it in the discussion and how will the students participate and comprehend in class.

Lesson 12: The Power of Film, Video and TV in the classroom

Lesson 12

The Power of Film,Video and TV in the Classroom

                                                                             Film,video and tv are very useful tools nowadays,knowing the fact that this generation is very dependent in the use of technology.So having these things or using  these things inside the class during class discussions  can really help emphasize the lesson.With the help of these technology, it's easier to present lessons especially when the use of pictures or documentations is necessary to better understand the topic.We just have to keep in mind that abusive use of these things in good and may cause harm to us and the people around us.

Lesson 11:Making the Most of Community Resources and Fieldtrips

Lesson 11

Making the Most of Community Resources and Fieldtrips

                            Fieldtrips are activities that requires efforts and of course,money.It's not just some simple school gathering or something that's we should not take it for granted.When we're in a fieldtrip,we should watch everything that our eyes can see,listen to everything that gives useful informations and participate and cooperate in any activity during the fieldtrip.By doing these things we can say that our money we used for the fieldtrip won't be a waste and we can assure ourselves that we did enjoy the trip.

Lesson 10:Demonstration in Teaching

Lesson 10

Demonstration in Teaching

          Demonstrations in teaching is very useful during discussions for the reason that demonstrating the topic can help the students or learners picture out the idea or concept of the said topic.Making interesting and attractive demonstration will be more effective because it will catch the attention of the learners and they can be focused in the discussion.Effective presentation of the topic will also be necessary because learners ,especially on lower grades will get confused or can't comprehend well if the demonstration is not well delivered.As for us students,using demonstrations will help us during practice teaching because it can lessen our effort in talking.

Lesson 9:Teaching with Dramatized Experiences

Lesson 9

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences

                 Dramatization is essentially a process of communication,in which both participants and spectators are engaged,where a creative reaction takes place and a sharing of ideas.Dramatic experiences range from the formal plays, pageants to less formal tableau,pantomime,puppets and role- playing.Teaching while using these ranges of dramatic experiences is very useful in letting the students experience the learning and apply it on their own.They can appreciate the knowledge they will acquire because they can experience it and they can share it with others.Dramatic experiences in teaching are essential for making the students understand well the topic.

Lesson 8:Contrived Experiences

Lesson 8

Contrived Experiences

          Contrived experiences are the edited copies or reality and are used as substitutes for real things when it is not practical or not possible to bring or do the real thing in the classroom.Contrived experiences has various types.These are the models,mock-ups,specimens,objects and simulations.Models are reproduction of real thing in a small scale,or large scale,or exact size but made of synthetic materials.Mock-ups are arrangements of real device or associated devises displayed in such a way that representation of reality is created.Specimens are any individual or item considered of a group, class or whole that represents the real thing.Objects include artifacts displayed in a museum or objects displayed in exhibits.Simulations,on the other hand,are representations of a manageable real event in which the learner is an active participant engaged in learning a behavior or in applying previous skills or knowledge.

          Contrived experiences are very useful in the learning process because they provide things that are not available in the environment or inside the classroom .These things are used as substitutes for us to study or examine.Because these things are not available in the environment,we need copies to be able to study them.

Lesson 7:Direct purposeful experience and Beyond

Lesson 7

Direct purposeful Experience and Beyond

Is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solution to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.Direct, purposeful experiences are the concrete experiences that make up the foundation of our learning. These are the rich experiences that our senses bring from which we construct ideas, concepts, and generalization give meaning and order to our lives.  It is the application of scientific findings in our method, process or procedure of working in the field trip of education in order to effect learning. It embraces curriculum and instructional design, learning environment, theories of teaching-learning.Very useful tool in teaching for it uses learnings that can be applied directly on a certain situation or problem.

Lesson 6:Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

Lesson 6

Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

               Instructional materials are very important tools used by teachers especially by those unexperienced and novice teachers during practice and actual teaching.It is very important to evaluate first these instructional materials to make sure that the lessons to be discussed will follow the proper process and so that the students as well as the teacher will not get confused during the discussion.The materials should be checked well to make sure that it follows what the government,for example the Dep.Ed requires.Proper usage of these instructional materials takes place after these materials are well evaluated.If that's the case then,efforts of sharing and expressing ideas through lessons during discussion with the use of well evaluated instructional materials won't be a waste for the reason that you can attain with higher percentage your outcomes from the students.