Learning Activity # 3

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

>>> John Dewey

2. Describe a traditional classroom. (You may embed pictures or videos.)

Traditional Classroom


3. Describe an SCL classroom. (You may embed pictures and videos.)

SCL Classroom

Learning Activity # 2

1.Who introduced constructivism?

>>> It was introduced by Piaget and Bruner.

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

>>> Social constructivism

3.Who stressed that learning is affected by social influences

>>> A psychologist named 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.

>>> 5 ways that the teacher can employ the computer:

a)As an informative tool - The computer provides huge amount of information in various ways such as text. graphics, sound and video.

b)As a Communication tool - Computers serve as an informative tool not just in downloading relevant information but also in the composition of a presentation project on a certain subject as may be assigned by teacher.

c) As a Constructive tool - The computer itself can be used for manipulating information, visualizing one's understanding and building new knowledge.

d) As a Co-constructive tool - Learners can use constructive tools to work cooperatively and construct a shared understanding of new knowledge.

e) As Situating tool - Through virtual reality (RS) extension systems, the computer can create 3-D images on display to give the user a virtual environment feeling.

Learning Activity # 1

1. What are the three revolutions of education?
First - invention of the printing press
Second - introduction of the libraries
Third - invention of the computer

2. What is CAI? (Please give its background.)
Computer-Aided Instruction - (CAI, or "assisted", "learning", CAL) The use of (personal) computers for education and training. Computer Aided Instruction is mainly used in education. It can teach and train people in the use of machines, computers, learn on topics like history, mathematics or languages. Programs like this are mostly geared towards one single subject.

3. Give 5 examples of communication media.
telephone and cellular phone, computer ,broad cast radio, recorded media (books, newspapers), internet

4. Give 5 examples of audiovisual media.
films, videotapes and DVDs, audiotapes and audio CDs, multimedia CD-ROMs, slideshows

5. Contrast instructional media and educational communication media.
instructional media aids in the transference of information from one to another. For example, a teacher may use instructional materials to aid in the learning of subject matter for a class. These instructional materials could include:
Power Point presentations (visual aids), Books , Articles , Materials for project development. While educational communication media refers to a media that makes use of the storage and transmission channels or tools which is used in storing and delivering information or data. It is often referred to as synonymous with mass media or news media, but may refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose.

6. Give 5 examples of computer programs and their capabilities.
a) MS Word - used in encoding data and information.
b) MS Excel - used in computing grades, spreadsheets
c) MS Power Point - used in making presentations of your lesson of any presentations you want to create.
d) Google Chrome - one of the browser that is used for researching.
e) Adobe Photoshop - a big help in editing pictures, creating designs, making new styles of a certain thing.

Evaluation on what I learned in my Edtech 1

Educational technology is a learning technology, it 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. While instructional technology covers the processes and systems of learning and instruction, educational technology includes other systems used in the process of developing human capability. Educational Technology includes, but is not limited to, software, hardware, as well as internet applications and activities.Having a computer in the classroom is an asset to any teacher. With a computer in the classroom, teachers are able to demonstrate a new lesson, present new material, illustrate how to use new programs, and show new websites.What better way to display your student's work, than to create a web page designed just for your class. Once a web page is designed, teachers can post homework assignments, student work, famous quotes, trivia games, and so much more. In current day society, children know how to use the computer and navigate their way through a website, so why not give them one where they can be a published author. Just be careful as most districts maintain strong policies to manage official websites for a school or classroom. Blogs allow for students to maintain a running dialogue, like a journal, of thoughts, ideas, and assignments that also provide for student comment and reiterative reflection. Wikis are more group focused to allow multiple members of the group to edit a single document and create a truly collaborative and carefully edited finished product. Truly, our experiences in life is a real thing wherein we could really learn a lot. It is the best type of education.
This subject is such an interesting and so challenging one. I discovered some things in computer surfing that could be a big help in the field that I am now taking. I really learned a lot in the activity which about the blog. It could motivate me to explore some ideas in the computer and discover some new things that would be a big help to me. It is just easy to post your assignments and create quizzes in the website and post it to the blog which I owned. I also learned a lot in making class record using the microsoft excel. It would be very easy to compute grades of the students by just a click of a mouse. Making a class record and computing grades is not a big burden in the part of the teacher because of this kind of technology.
When I will be a teacher in the near future, I will apply all those things I've learned in this subject. I will use excel in making class record and computing the grades of my students. I will require each of my students to have an "e-mail" account such as the "gmail" one. I will post some projects and assignments in that particular account and it would be easy for me to check their work.

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Lesson 5 : The Cone of Experience

In this lesson, the Cone of Experience is tackled. This is a visual model, pictorial device that presents bands of experience arranged according to degree of abstraction and not degree of difficulty. Let me enumerate the bands of experience in Dal's Cone of Experience. These bounds from the bottom to the top. Direct Purposeful Experiences, Contrived Experiences, Dramatized Experiences, Demonstrations, Study Trips, Exhibits, Educational Television, Motion Pictures, Recordings Radio Still Pictures, Visual Symbols, Verbal Symbols. I learned from these experiences that we do not use only one medium of communication, we may use many instructional materials to help the students conceptualize learning. When teaching, we don't have to stuck on one medium, we should have several. Let our student be in the top of learning, strive to bring them to the symbolic or abstract level to develop their HOTS or higher order thinking skills.

Lesson 4 : Systematic Approach to Teaching

The broad definition of educational technology encompasses systems or designs of instruction. In this lesson, system's or a systematic approach to instruction is discussed. The focus of systematic instructional planning is the student. The teacher should consider the student's needs, interest and readiness of the lesson and subject matter. The teacher should select the appropriate teaching styles,techniques and methods that would fit the student's ability, capacity and needs to learn. Appropriate materials, equipments and facilities should be considered. The teacher should refine processes, evaluate outcomes and implement instructions. I learned in this lesson that, we, teachers should always be aware of our students. We should not let them hate school but love it instead. We have to do our best in imparting our knowledge and lessons, do it a modest way. We may ensure that orderly relationships and interaction of human, technical, and environmental resources to fulfill the goals which have been established for instruction. When I will be a teacher, I will set goals and objectives in a clear manner and presentation so that it will be followed and checked time on time if it is fulfilled.

Lesson 3 : The Roles of Educational Technology in Learning

Everything that is created by God has roles on earth. Just like technology, it has several roles why it exists. In this lesson, two views were given to present the roles of technology. First is the traditional point of view wherein technology serves as the delivery vehicles for instructional lessons, and serves as source and presenter of knowledge. It is assumed that "knowledge" is embedded in the technology and the technology presents that knowledge to the student. Second is the constructivist point of view which is considered as partners in the learning process, in this view, educational technology serves as learning tools that learners learn with. It provides opportunities for technology and learner interaction for meaningful learning. It is a facilitator of thinking and knowledge construction. In a short way, the difference of the two point of view on the roles of technology is simply goes like this Technology is a learning tool to learn with not to learn from.
In imparting my knowledge to my student, I will not spoon-feed them. I will make them discover all the things that they are curious upon. I am just here to support them and help them when they encounter difficulties in the learning processes.

Lesson 2 : Technology : Boon or Bane?

Is technology a boon or a bane? Let's first define the word boon, this means "blessing". While the word bane means "poison". Everything in this world has its advantages and disadvantages, just like the technology, if we use this in the the wrong manner then we cannot achieve the righteousness in using it. If we use it in the right way such as doing a research for a project or assignment, then it's a blessing because we can gain much knowledge that is also necessary for our learning and daily routine of our lives. But if we are just using technology in a wrong way and just for fun such as watching prohibited thing which is pornography, then you will be addicted on it, then, we could further say that it's poisoning our mind.
Going back to the question in the first paragraph, is technology a boon or a bane? , then, I could simply say that it depends upon how we use the technology that we have. If we use it to help impart knowledge, brainstorm our students, make them relate things and stuffs, make them think and realize the things happening in their lives, analyze something to make improvements in life , then it is a boon or a blessing. On the other hand, if we abuse it and use it in the wrong manner that could lead to addiction and poisoning one's mind,that could ruin one's mind then it is a bane. Someday, somehow, if I will become a teacher, I would make my students be aware of these stuffs to avoid addiction and poisoning of one's mind. I will let them aware on this thing and realize within themselves if they're using technology in a right way or contrary.

Lesson 1: Meaning of Educational Technology

This lesson is all about the meaning of educational technology. Many meanings were given. Educational technology is a very broad term. It is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. Educational technology is most simply and comfortably defined as an array of tools that might prove helpful in advancing student learning. It is an application of scientific findings in our method, process or procedure of working in the field of education in order to effect learning. I've learned from this lesson that educational technology is much different from the technology in education. Someday, in the mere future, I could use this in teaching and imparting my knowledge to my dear students. I will not be behind of the learning of my students. I will be learning with them not that learning from. I will make sure that I will be an instrument to make their learning and knowledge be advanced and with the flow of the modern world.