Summary: Lesson 5; State-of-the-Art ET Application Practices

Educational Technology 2Summary: Lesson 5; State-of-the-Art ET Application Practices

Content              
  The use of modern information technology in this field of education is now considered a necessity to keep pace with economic and social progress.  Schools can no longer rely solely on the traditional methods of teaching because their students will be put at a disadvantage when compared to the students availing of advanced technological devices that have been made part of their schools facilities.  However, these modern IT inventions such as computers, hardware, software, internet, etc. are quite expensive and are constantly improving so most of them become obsolete and out dated.  So schools have to update their technological facilities to advance a state of the art level.  Teachers also have to learn new skills and knowledge on how to use this state of the art technology and apply it to the learning process.  Students are encouraged to be more creative and independent in seeking information and doing projects thru the computer and internet. 

Experience               
 Today’s teachers are technology oriented wherein they use some of the technology in teaching to enhance the learning and teaching process to their students. But some teacher would stick to the traditional teaching way because as they don’t know how to manipulate such technology, it would only be a waste of time and cost expensively. 

Reflection               
 If an educator could say technology in teaching takes time and in experience is a kind of educator who never set a new level of learning in acquiring the appropriate use of state-of-the-art in his/her learning process. Although applying and adopting the advancement of technology is expensive and takes more time, we know that it would help us develop, enhance, equipped, improved and acquire our computer skill in assessing our learning as we adopt technology in our modern world.

Application              
  Computer now a day is becoming to be a necessity in teaching in order to improve the teaching and learning process to the students. As a future teacher the use of integration of educational technology in instruction would enhance not just the teaching and learning process but it would also encourage students to participate and be more creative in acquiring knowledge, but still integrated strategy and technique would still be needed in order for it to function.