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.