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

1. What can you say about teachers who use media simply to make classes entertaining and fun.
Ans: Well its a great idea to use multimedia in the classroom as long as it involved educational purposes.But
teachers need to monitor students’ use of social media in the classroom. The use of Facebook and other platforms in class can lead to distractions and procrastination because kids may secretly use Facebook to play instead of work. For example, if a student is writing blog posts for a social studies class about an up-coming election, that’s a good thing. But if he decides to use class time to check out what his friends are up to, it’s a bad thing. It’s important to make sure that students are actually “academically networking” while in class. They face a lot of temptation to do other things.

Educational Technology 2

Lesson 1: A Review of Educational Technology 1

“the Educational Technology 1 course has truly paved the way for the learner to become aware, appreciative and equipped to use educational technology tools ranging from traditional to modern educational media.”

In this course, learners are oriented towards averting the dangers of dehumanization which technology brings into societies. There are areas where learners are oriented with and needs to be aware of:

·         Ideological propaganda

·         Pornography

·         Financial fraud

·         Other exploitative used of technology

If the learners would not be aware of these areas, these will continue to affect peoples and cultures, and would give gap between poor and rich countries. ET- 1 has something to apply which is necessary for instruction.

1.    Setting of learning objectives

2.    Designing specific learning experiences

3.    Evaluating the effectiveness at the learning experiences

4.    Revision as needed of the whole teaching- learning process

REFLECTON:

1. Talking about the first world countries which have advancement in schools industrialization compare to our country, the Philippines, there is this disparity of education because Philippines is still developing in terms of technology. Let us take for instance the US; their technology is far more advanced than ours, that what we see as the new technology here in the Philippines is already old- fashioned for them.

2. We know that rural areas here in the Philippines are not using technology in the schools (the government should do actions about it). But, it is not too late to improve because we have tools to be used for effective learning in rural schools, and that is the - “traditional media”.

3. Computer shops are pervasive around schools, but these are mainly used for playing online games. In this situation, the learners can use the best of computers if they will be oriented well and be aware of what truly is the used of the computer, and to orient them to the pervasiveness of educational technology in society and the learners’ lives.

1. What can you say to the plan of the DepEd to supply one computer unit to each public school (with 1, 000 average of students in the country).

Ans. I find it inadequate since there are many students in each public school compared to private schools. We are in a modern generation now and it is very important for the students to learn how to use those advanced technologies for educational purposes and for the students to be more knowledgeable enough with those computers used in education.  It’s a sad thing that only 1 computer would be given to a public school which has an average population of 1,000 in each school. We all know that computer is important in teaching and learning process especially that most of the teachers nowadays are giving an assignment which uses computer. And this computer is one of our source of information both the teachers and the learners.