Important Roles of Educational Technology
in
Education
In the current age we live in, technology has
become an important
component. Every day there is some new gadget or software that makes
lives easier and improves on the technology and software that already
exists. Making lives easier is not, however, the only role technology
plays in our lives.Technology is playing an increasing role in
education. As technology advances, it is used to benefit students of all
ages in the learning process.
Technology used in the classroom
helps students adsorb the material. For example, since some people are
visual learners, projection screens linked to computers can allow
students to see their notes instead of simply listening to a teacher
deliver a lecture.
Software can be used to supplement class
curriculum. The programs provide study questions, activities, and even
tests and quizzes for a class that can help students continue learning
outside the classroom.
Technology has also become part of many
curriculums, even outside of computer and technology classes. Students
use computers to create presentations and use the Internet to research
topics for papers and essays.
Students also learn to use the
technology available to them in computer and tech classes. This ensures
that after graduation they will be able to use the technology in a work
setting, which may put them ahead of someone who didn't have access to a
particular technology or software in their own school setting.
As
technology advances, students have better access to educational
opportunities like these. When something new and "better" is revealed,
the "older" technology becomes more affordable, allowing it to be used
in educational settings, even when schools are on a tight budget.
Technology
has also advanced to help children even before they've started school.
Educational video games and systems for young children helps them
prepare for school and in some cases get a head start on their
education.
Instructional Technology
is "the theory and practice of design,
development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and
resources for learning. It is often referred as a part of Educational
technology. But nowadays Instructional Technology gained its own
meaning to clearly understand the difference of it in Educational
Technology.
Technology in Education is the integration of different
technologies that helps individual to strengthen their understanding in
specific subject.
Instructional media encompasses all the materials
and physical means an instructor might use to implement instruction
and
facilitate students' achievement of instructional objectives. This
may include
traditional materials such as chalkboards, handouts, charts, slides,
overheads,
real objects, and videotape or film, as well newer materials and
methods such
as computers, DVDs, CD-ROMs, the Internet, and interactive video
conferencing.
Educational Media seems
to be the tools to be used by the teachers in achieving their daily
goal in Learning Environment. It doesn't focus only on the technology
but also on the abilities in manipulating technologies whether in
physical and intellectul.
So that is the meaning of that following words and their
difference.
What is the Primary Concern of Educational Technology II course
forme.?
For me the Primary concern of Educational
Technology II course is that, for me to understand how important the
integration of technology in education. As a future Educator i must know
the different tools to be use in order to strengthen the understanding
and acquiring of information of my future student. It is not only
focus on the new technology,but also the traditional instructional tools
used in teaching,
Educational Technology is very Important
nowadays . As the years fast the competencies of the students also
increase with this subject, future educators gained relevant information
in what is the newest technology that they can use.
Edgar Dales "The Cone of Experience"
The
core of experience developed by Edgar Dale asserts that the pattern of
arrangement of the bands of experience is not difficulty but degree of
abstraction - the amount of immediate sensory participation that is
involved.
1. Direct purposeful experience - these are firsthand experience which serve as the foundation of our learning. We build our reservoir of meaningful information and ideas through seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. In the context of teaching-learning process, it is learning by doing.
Example:
In Elementary students , teachers first teach the basic 4 Macro skills in their students, writing, reading and speaking becomes their foundation of learning in moving tothe next steps.
1. Direct purposeful experience - these are firsthand experience which serve as the foundation of our learning. We build our reservoir of meaningful information and ideas through seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. In the context of teaching-learning process, it is learning by doing.
Example:
In Elementary students , teachers first teach the basic 4 Macro skills in their students, writing, reading and speaking becomes their foundation of learning in moving tothe next steps.
2. Contrived experience - make use of representative models or mock-ups of reality for practical reasons and so that we can make the real-life accessible to the students' participation and understanding.
Example:
In Science the use of realia or model in teaching parts of the body helps the student easy understand and know the different parts of the body .
In Science the use of realia or model in teaching parts of the body helps the student easy understand and know the different parts of the body .
3. Dramatized experience - a student can
participate in reconstructed experiences even though the original event
is far
removed
Example:
Allowing the students participate in activities like Role Playing, Drama or other physical Activities
4. Demonstrations - is a visualized explanation of important fact, idea or process by use of photographs, drawings, films, displays or guided motions.
Example:
Film Showing .
5. Study trips - these are
excursions and
visits conducted to observe an event that is available within the
classroom.
Example:
Taking the students indifferent educational place like museum, planetarium, zoo and Historical places.
6. Exhibits - these are displays to be seen by spectators. They may consist of working models arranged meaningfully or photographs with models, charts and posters.
Example:
Art Gallery allow your students to unleashed their creativity in their own by creating arts like panting and others artistic things.
7. Television and motion pictures - these can reconstruct the reality of the past so effectively that we are made to feel we are there.
Example:
Making the students watch a film then instructing them to make a reaction or reflection about the story.
8. Still pictures, recordings, radio - these are visual and auditory devices maybe used by an individual or group.
Example:
Allow students to listen in radio and ask them to prepare reaction paper.
9. Visual symbols - these are no longer realistic reproduction of physical things for these are highly abstract representations.
Example:
Charts which represent an image of the different kinds of transportation, occupation, parts of the body and etc.
Graphs that show representation of progress, quantity, etc.
10. Verbal symbols - they are not the objects or ideas to which they stand. They usually do not contain visual clues to their meaning. Written words fall under this category. It may be a word for a concrete object (book), and idea (freedom of speech), a scientific principle (the principle of balance), or a formula (e=mc2).
Examples
The use of books
and other Instructional Material.
My Reflection
As of now I
already learned the Importance of well prepared Instructional Material
in motivating the students. I also learned that it is not easy to
prepare relevant materials. Different types of Instructional materials
have their own different purpose. I also learned the PPPF which is very
important. P- PREPARE YOUR SELF. P-PREPARE YOUR STUDENTS. P- PRESENT
YOUR MATERIALS and F- FOLLOW-UP . This following information help me to
be more curious not only on how will i present my self but also on how
can i make my learning more on acquiring not on memorizing.
"The Cone of
Experience" this is a very good information that i also learned now i
can easily understand on how will i deal with my future student if i
become a teacher.
The PBML.
Project-based Multimedia Learning i also learned how to prepare this
types of Lesson that is PBML.
