LESSON 3: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

To provide confidence to educators that they are taking the right steps in adopting technology in education, it is good to know that during the last few years, progressive countries in the Asia pacific region have formulated state policies and strategies to infuse technology in school. And their goal, “Government with the education and technology sectors, community group, and industry envisions to support to the development of the capability of schools to use information and communication technologies in teaching-and-learning and in administration.”

DISCUSSION:

1. How do Philippines compare with schools in progressive countries in the Asia Pacific Region?

Ø  The development of educational technology in the Philippines is still on process, because we all know that the Philippines, still a developing country. And we need a large amount of fund for this different kind of technology that we need and also our country.

2. The plan of the Department of Education is to supply computers to public elementary and high schools at a ratio of 1 school - 1 computer. How adequate or inadequate do you find this plan considering that the public school system in the Philippines has an average of 1 000 students in each school?

Ø  It is inadequate, if that will happened their still no improvement of school in the Philippines in term of Educational Technology because it is not enough. We all know that the population of the Philippine increases so there will be also increase of enrollees. And that 1 computer should be given to school can’t be used by the student because it will be place in the office and only the teacher can manipulate them. If that will happened student still does not develop their skill to manipulate that computer.

3. What can be proposed so that Philippines can cope up with its neighbors on IT education?

Ø  The government should aim to raise the quality of school education by promoting the use of IT in teaching and learning. If there is a fund they should give at list 40 computers of each primary school and 82 computers of each secondary school. And about 85 000 IT training places of teachers at four levels.

4..    Filipinos, including students, are hooked up on cellphone texting. Is this enough for information skills literacy for our citizens and youths? Mention the benefits and disadvantage of our texting culture.

• Actually, there is no problem in the texting culture of Filipino as long as, everyone should know their limitation in texting but there are some disadvantages of it: First, it may cause of misspelled word in actual writing. Second, can cause of cheating for the student. They use this texting strategy in cheating, they text their friends, classmates and so on if they do not know the answer in their quizzes or examination. For them just to perfect or answer the given question to them.