LESSON 17: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2 PRACTICUM

      Much like field studies in teacher education, Educational Technology 2 offers students the experimental process of adapting to technology integration within a student-centered paradigm. This is the practicum phase of the course which can be done, as seen fit by the teacher, either at the end of the more theoretical lessons or inserted between lessons.

LESSON 17: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2 PRACTICUM

      Much like field studies in teacher education, Educational Technology 2 offers students the experimental process of adapting to technology integration within a student-centered paradigm. This is the practicum phase of the course which can be done, as seen fit by the teacher, either at the end of the more theoretical lessons or inserted between lessons.

LESSON 16: THE INTERNET AND EDUCATION

      And today schools are gearing up to take advantage of internet access, where they can plug into the Library of Congress, make virtual visits to famous museums in the world, write to celebrities, and even send questions to heads of states.

LESSON 15: UNDERSTANDING HYPERMEDIA

      The presentation of information-learning activities in hypermedia is said to be sequenced in a non-linear manner, meaning that the learner may follow his path of activities thus providing an environment of learner autonomy and thinking skills.

DISCUSSION:

1.      Hypermedia provides autonomous learning. How is this better than the traditional classroom learning, which often fails to consider the case of slow and poor individual learners?

Ø  Hypermedia is better than the traditional classroom learning if the teacher know this hypermedia and how to use it in the proper way and why we need to understand this hypermedia as a learning and teaching tools, so that the learner also develop their ability in creating hypermedia.

2.      How can the teacher help slow and poor learners using the traditional teaching methods?

Ø  Teacher should also create there instructional material for more clarification in the discussion and they should have objective before they start the class discussion so that they will know if they reach their goal using the traditional teaching methods.

3.      Hypermedia provides an atmosphere of search, exploration and discovery. How can the teacher provide such an environment in the traditional classroom?

Ø  First, the teacher should know how to explore with themselves so that they will develop their self-confidence to teach the learner about this hypermedia and let your student explore and search about the activity you gave to them in the traditional classroom.

LESSON 14: THE SOFTWARE AS AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

      Instructional software can be visited on the Internet or can be bought from software shops or dealers. The teacher through his school should decide on the best computer-based instructional (CBI) materials for the school resource collection.

LESSON 13: COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH THE COMPUTER

       In cooperative learning with the computer, researchers agreed that the computer is the fairy natural learning vehicle for cooperative (at times called promoter) learning.

DISCUSSION:

1.      Discuss the difference between peer competition and positive interdependence in a group. Simply said, aren’t there debates in group work?

Ø  Actually there are debates in a group work because we all know that in a group it compose of different person with different identity in which they have different idea in a certain topics. And competition occurs in a group, debate occurs but if there is cooperation there will be a good outcome.

2.      What can be done in case some members of a group do not show positive interpersonal and communication skills? Can the teacher help in this situation?

Ø  Yes, the teacher can help. She will let the students who are not participating well to create their own in which they can express their self freely.

3.      Do skills in listening, negotiating, compromising, punctuality, tolerance (giving others a chance to speak) part of the social skills needed in group work?

Ø  Yes.

4.      How can group members ensure that each member of the group is also accountable for the group work, and not totally dependent on others? In practical terms, how can the teacher grade individual students fairly in a group activity for one single output?

Ø  In a group, each of them should share their idea in different matters so that they will have a good outcome in their group and the teacher will give them similar grades from their outputs.

5.      While cooperative learning is a very good avenue for teachers to help students learn effectively, why is it not to be adopted in all classrooms learning situation?

Ø  It is because in every classroom they have different situation and standards and sometimes not all of the student want a cooperative activity because they prefer to be independent and compete with others.

LESSON 12: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

      Desiring to gain effectiveness, efficiency and economy in administration and instruction, schools in these developed economies have also adopted the support of ICTs. Their students have now become active not passive learners, who can interact with other learners, demonstrating independence and self-awareness in the learning process.

DISCUSSION:

1.      What can you say to the objection that an SCL environment can be noisy and unwieldy?

Ø  Actually this SCL environment is not noisy and unwieldy because they communicate to everyone most especially with their classmate without interrupting others in the classroom, they just merely type or encode what they want to say and send it to their classmate quietly.

2.      How can SCL be fun, memorable and healthy?

Ø  SCL become fun, because the student will become active and not a passive learner in with they explore everything to gain knowledge in which their teacher do not know and also they develop their own social interaction, demonstrating independently and self-awareness in the learning process.

3.      Share/discuss experiences an your e-mail activities.

Ø  It is good if you experience this e-mailing activity because here you can share you own idea, explanation, and knowledge about everything or the issues that is latest for these days. And it makes you proud if someone read and believed on what you say.

4.      Share/discuss experiences on Internet surfing.

Ø  In internet surfing, you will gain different ideas from different person that will help you to improve / gain knowledge. You can explore everything you want by your own. You can have a trip around the world because of this Internet surfing.