Summary: Lesson 8; Higher Thinking Skills through IT-Based Project

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Summary: Lesson 8; Higher Thinking Skills through IT-Based Project

Content

The Four Types of IT-Based Projects Resource-based Projects In these projects, the teacher steps out of the traditional role of being a content expert and information provider, and instead lets the students find their own facts and information. Only when necessary for the active learning process does the teacher step in to supply data or information. Simple Creations Students can also be assigned to create their software materials. Of course, there are available software materials such as Creative Writer (by Microsoft) on writing, KidWork Deluxe (by Davidson) on drawing and painting, and Media Weave (by Humanities software) on multimedia). Guided Hypermedia Projects It is a self-made multimedia projects that you can use for your instruction or discussion. It can be approached in two different ways. First, As an Instructive tool, such as in the production by the students of a power point presentation. You can apply this in your discussion. It is easy for the teacher to catch up the attention of the students because they love moving letters or pictures and also sounds and the teacher can discussed well the topic because of its beautiful visual aid which is suitable for the topic. And Second, as a communication tool when students do a multimedia presentation to stimulate a television news show. It is easy for the teacher to discuss about news or literature if they have tools like television or you can use your own video clips in order to present the topic they wanted. Web-based Projects Students can be made to create and post webpages on a given topic. But creating webpages, even single page webpages may too sophiscated and time consuming for the average student.

Experience

                By the use of IT based project we developed higher order thinking skills to our students that lets the students to organize their mind, giving problems and let them formulate ideas that could resolved it. The use of IT based project which lets the students facilitate their own thinking and making them more competence. The best example to site for this is during Educational Technology 1 when we are task to use the Cyberlink Power Director to make our own short film.

Reflection

                We should know that the use of IT based project isn’t just the way to achieve higher thinking skills. As a teacher we should know how to use the available resources that usable outside or inside in the classroom to acquire knowledge special to some areas where technology is not yet introduce very well. We should all know that technology is not a replacement to us teacher but it as tool. Developing higher order thinking skills still lies to us teacher and how we handle our students.

  

Application

                The use of technology today in the classroom is kind of common in some reasons that it could make their lesson easier and faster. We should always bare on our mind that the use of technology is not for the sake of the convenience that it gives us teacher but also to promote conducive teaching and learning process to our students  A

Summary: Lesson 7; IT for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity

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Summary: Lesson 7; IT for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity

Content                                                               Thinking Skills Framework

To define higher level thinking skills and creativity, we may adopt a framework that is a helpful synthesis of many models and definitions on the subject matter. The framework is not exhaustive but a helpful guide for the teacher’s effort to understand the learner’s higher learning skills. In the traditional way of teaching, it is only focused in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor abilities of the students. The modern way of teaching, with the use of IT is more complex.

Experience

                When comparing this newly designed framework to the old one which is the Bloom’s Taxonomy I could clearly see that this is really amazing which could really expand information that leads to new understanding to the learners not like the old one which limits potentials to the students to develop more ideas.

Reflection

                Since people now days are fond of visuals as to photos and graphics, it is easier to attract and enhance their creativity. It is easier to facilitate learning when students are attracted and influence to do creativity in their reports or presentations. They would love to make assignments and create projects for they know with the use of the educational technology; there is variety, originality, and limited options to use.

Application

                As a future teacher I will apply these thinking skills to classroom in order to make my students more active in learning and to know what there higher order thinking skills that they possess. Not that I will use the traditional way of teaching but I will use this frame with the use of IT based project which students could find resources through the use of computer.

Summary: Lesson 6; IT Enters A New Learning Environment

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Summary: Lesson 6; IT Enters A New Learning Environment

Content

                The four conceptual models namely Meaning Learning, Discovery Learning, Generative Learning and Constructivism are useful in achieving instructional goals through preferred application of educational technology. With these conceptual models, we shall see how effective teacher’s best interact with their students in innovative learning activities while integrating technology to the teaching-learning process. Meaningful learning this gives focus to new experience that is related to what the learner already knows. A new experience departs from the learning of a sequence of words or memorization through rote memory but gives attention to meaning. Discovery learning this kind of learning is differentiated from reception learning in which ideas are presented directly to students in a well-organized way, such as through a detailed set of instructions to complete an experiment or task. Generative Learning In generative learning we have active learners who attend to learning events and generate drawing from this experience and draw inferences thereby creating a personal model or explanation to the new experience in the context of existing knowledge. Constructivism the learner builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities and a good learning environment. The most accepted principles of constructivism are: learning consists in what a person can actively assemble for himself and not what he can receive passively. The role of learning is to help the individual live/adapt to his personal world.

Experience

As a student I sometimes observe some teacher that doesn’t care that much about their learning strategy, they are sometimes concern that they could finish the syllabus of the subject that is offered. There are only few subject that this learning style can be notice.  

Reflection

                These four conceptual theories of learning gives us the idea and the realization that education ought to enhance and develop a person’s skills and abilities by making use of what has been presented in understanding present situation, or in solving a problem or explaining the relevance of what has been previously learned and what has been currently being learned. Actually this does not mean that we will stop memorizing or doing drill activities. But these things not ought to be the way/method to educate a student or introduce a concept to be learned because in the first place only the memory will be exercised with a drill, after which, most of the times we forget and cannot apply it.         

Application

                By the use of informational technology I can mold my future students to be better. As a teacher I would be the one responsible for giving them new information and knowledge not just this but also introducing them to the new technology around them that could be used in their learning.

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.

Summary: Lesson 4; Basic Concepts on Integrating

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Summary: Lesson 4; Basic Concepts on Integrating

Content

                Integrating technology is the use of learning technologies to improve the teaching skills of a teacher. The difference of this in the traditional teaching is that the way of the teacher in conducting a class, in which technology help’s in supplementing, and reinforce in the students learning.

Experience

                In educational technology 1 focuses in the simple basic integration where in middle level of integration is not emphasize that much. Educational technology 1 was a stepping stone for us 21^st century learners to experience the use of integration technology in instruction, it apply all the technology resources that are available to amend the process of teaching and learning 

Reflection

                Technology today plays a vital role in teaching since it is the 21^st century. Also students today are looking for new strategy in teaching that a teacher could provide in the classroom. The level of integration makes the learning and teaching process to be more interactive to the students.

Application

                As a future teacher the use of technology would be more convenient as a tool during instruction. The use of integrated technology in instruction would determine when to use the desired technology to enhance the teaching and learning process.