A world without computer..

Now a days , computers are very important in everyone specially to all the students. Computers seem to be a dependable part of our lives. We depend our learning activities most of the time to computers. In our generation today, i cant imagine the world without computers specially when it comes to education. It is easier for us to learn and get information through computers. A world without computer is like a world without transportation vehicles. Without vehicles, we have no choice but to walk and without computers in education, we have no choice but to go to the library and do some research. Computers are very essential in ones life, not only because it is in our generation today but it gives a lot of benefits to man. Life without computer is quite possible. We, as teachers to be, must be well knowledgeable in computers because we can teach this to our future students to be and this is where the interest of the students are. Unlike any other gadgets, computers cannot be eliminated. Yes, it can be improve and can be develop but it can never be remove in our new generation.

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                                             EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

1.    A review of Educational Technology 1

It gave emphasis to the following aspects:

·         History of educational Technology

·         Dehumanization

·          4 phases of application of educational technology in teaching and learning process.

·         Instructional technology

·         Traditional to modern educational media

2.    An Overview: Educational Technology 2

Benefits of Educational Technology 2

  EASY-TO-ACCESS COURSE MATERIALS

       STUDENT MOTIVATION
      WIDE PARTICIPATION

IMPROVED STUDENT WRITING

SUBJECTS MADE EASIER TO LEARN

      DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

3.    Educational Technology in the Asia Pacific Region

          New Zealand 2001 ICT Goals and Strategies

Goal Government with the education and technology sectors, community groups, and industry envisions to support to the development of the capability of schools to use information and communication technologies in teaching-and-learning and in administration.

          Australia IT Initiatives

In the Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for schools, information technology is one of the eight national goals/learning areas students should achieve.

  The plan for achieving the national goal for IT is left to individual states and territories with the Educational Network Australia (EdNA) as the coordinating and advisory body.

          Singapore Master plan for IT in Education

4.    BASIC CONCEPTS ON INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN INSTRUCTION

Some manifestation of educational technology into instruction:

- Change in the way classes are traditionally conducted

- Quality of instruction is improved\

- The plan of the teacher on how and when technology fits into teaching and learning process

- Teacher sets instructional strategies

- occupies position in the instructional process

Levels of Integration

-Simple Integration

- Middle level integration

- Technology as central instructional tool

 5. State of the Art ET application practices

More recent ET education practice

         Through school or training center computer courses, present-day students have become computer literate. They send e-mail, prepare computer encoded class reports, and even make power-point presentations sometimes to the surprise of their media tradition-bound 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 assessment/examinations have included measurement of higher level learning outcomes such as creative and critical thinking skills.

          Recent teaching-learning models (such as constructivism and social constructivism) have paved the way for instructional approaches in which

Students rely less on teachers as information-givers, and instead more in their efforts to acquire information, build their own knowledge, and solve problems. 

Obstacles to IT pedagogical practice

         Use of the computer is time-consuming and expensive.

          Besides there also danger of a technology-centered classroom along the fear that computers may soon replace teachers.

         Teachers should balance their time for the preparation and application of instructional tools. Through wise technical advice, schools can also acquire the most appropriate computer hardware and software. At the same time, training should ensure that the use of ET is fitted to learning objectives.

         In addition, teachers should acquire computer skills for so that they can serve as models in integrating educational technology in the teaching-learning process. Schools should now foster a student-centered learning environment, where in students are given leeway to use computer information sources in their assignments, reports and presentations in written, visual, or dramatic forms.

6. STATE OF THE ART ET APPLICATION

Recent ET in education practice

- In present day school become computer literate. They send E-mail; prepare computer encoded class reports etc.

- deemphasized rote learning and allow more time to let the students internalize lessons

7. IT ENTERS A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Meaningful learning 

- gives focus to new experience that is related to what the learner already knows

Discovery Learning 

- Student performed task to accomplished what has to be learned

Generative Learning

- generating meaning from experience and draw inferences thereby creating a personal model or explanation to the new experience in the context of existing knowledge

Constructivism

- builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities

8.  Higher Thinking Skills through IT-Based Projects

     In this lesson, we shall discuss four types of IT-Based projects which can effectively be used in order to engage students in activities of a higher plane of thinking.

                              -Resource-based project

-       In these projects, the teacher step out of the traditional role of being an content expert and information provider, and instead lets the student find their own facts and information.

                            -Simple creations

-       Students can also be assigned to create their software  materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials.

-Creativity is said to combine three kinds of skills/abilities:

·         -Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and differences seeing the project as a problem to be solved.

·         -Synthesizing- making spontaneous connections among ideas, thus generating interesting or new ideas.

·        - Promoting- selling of new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.

         -Guided hypermedia projects

-       The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached in two different ways:

1.    as an instructive tool.

2.    as a communication tool.

                   -Web-based projects

            - Students can be made to create and post webpage’s on a given topic.

Skills competiton

 
I would like to congratulate all the participants of the skills competition 2012 most specially to camarin students for winning the overall competition.But aside from that, I am very happy with the result of the cosmetology competition because the main campus students win that part of the skills competition. Me personally, I enjoyed it a lot not only because I won but also because I love what Im doing. Im quite disappointed because some of the camarin TLE students does'nt treat us like their visitors and family, I can feel that some of them are being so unfair but not all of them. I suggest that, what if we conduct the next skills competition here in tandang sora campus. It would be a new environment but it will look fair to those main campus students and lets pick half of the camarin judges and half of the main judges. But all in all, Im very much happy. TLE cosmetology main campus WON !!!