Thursday, September 29, 2011

EDTECH 2 ACTIVITIES

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EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES

www.purposefulgames.com,americanpresidents.org,leaner.org,http://library.thinkquest.org,http://www.ushistory.org/,http://www.greatestplaces.org/

ALL OF THEM ARE SOCIAL STUDIES WEBSITES.

Lesson #17


Educational Technology 2 Practicum


After all had been discuss,those things are becoming more significant in the field of teaching.We have to imply all the things that we have learned,even if we have a different field of specialization,we can be all rounded in the field of teaching because of the presence of the internet.The existence of the computer and the internet signifies that it is possible for a much faster flow of information that will be a factor in the teaching and learning process.The process has always a limitation during the time of traditional teaching,but now there are a lot of possibilities of success in the field of learning.As we go on to the age of technology,let's make this as an advantage in terms of making teaching as an enjoyable field and an learning experience for the student.

Lesson #16


The Internet and Education.



Everybody is looking for a way to have an access to a computer.Now,in the field of education it is already link to each other.As we all now,internet is a whole network,a computer which are connected to each other that shares and has a capability to share knowledge or something like idea towards a particular topic.Now the students are encourage to be in hands-on experience with the computer for a better learning.It is a necessity of the educational system to have the computer,those who adjusted and those who already understand the means of having the power of the most influential machine that transforms everything,to be exact,it transforms the educational system.


It will be a lasting experience because the computer provide the proper presentation of learning programs.Discovery approaches in teaching is the best link that the computer have,because with the power of internet,the biggest possibility is learning by their own exploration that the internet can provide.

Lesson #15


Understanding Hypermedia.


The sequence of providing the manner of activity.The way everything is presented to the educational technology.The understanding of the learners capability to comprehend,to learn and to get the lesson that they have.It can provide the learners their necessity of getting the environment that they need.All multimedia is in,the multimedia that provide learning to the students.But all the integration towards learning for the student will be present.It is not just an ordinary package of multimedia that is normally installed in a computer but it is the part where it is very useful for education and the teaching and learning process.Things like tutorial learning packages that in the previous blog that i have i discuss that the tutorial packages are maximize in the presence of the computer.

Lesson #14


The Software as an Educational Resource.


In education,a computer is useless without all the programs or software that are installed to it.There are softwares that are created in an excellent way of presenting,innovating,integrating the available capabilities of the computer.It's a huge help for the teachers.The software can deliver much enough educational resource to every facilitators of learning.We can expect that every years will pass,we will eventually learn the importance of software in delivering the said learning.

Modern age requires much update,it means that the institution should make the learning flows.We have to think that the source right now will come in this form of delivering and enhancing learning in style of the new age.It is becoming a necessity in terms of linking learning and the technology available.The two comes together,the more computer resources you have,the software that you installed,the faster we can get the learnings or the ideas available,the more effective and the more comprehensive learning we can get.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Lesson #13


Cooperative Learning with the Computer.


The cooperative learning is always present in the availability of computer.As i had mention in my previous blogs, the students will be able to collectively organize and gather their ideas in the world of internet.Different sources for a certain topic with the same goal of learning for the students.Last thing they could have is that they can adjust to their ideas presented because of a well organize giving and sharing of knowledge opinion and sources.The well coordinated presentation will make other learners motivated to coordinate with other studies that they will take.


There will be a better effort for the student to express their ideas because they know they will be aided in their studies.A tough situation is when you have a study in your own without having the opinion of the others.As i can say,many heads are better than a single head.Every learners will ride on a single given thing to study.

Lesson #12


Information Technology in Support of Student-Centered Learning.



The Information Technology is the best help to the Student-Learning Learning. It is primarily because of the presence of the information that the computer provide.In another way of explaining, in student-centered learning, students will base everything on their focus or field of study.It is he best situation for those teachers or institution who are adopting this kind of teaching.They are expected to interact with the different students and different sources of information.



The traditional form of teaching is slowly fading because of the information technology, it really comes out with a purpose of effectivity in the field of teaching. They will be allowed to present everything from the point of source, the computer itself.There will be no risk of relying on the computer as a source of aid in student-centered learning.

Lesson #11


The Computer as the Teacher's Tool.





It's pretty obvious that teacher should adopt to the new technology. The new age signifies the much easy access towards learning. As teachers, we should know how to present everything to the learners for much effective teaching learning process. We will have the upper hand over the tradional based kind of teaching. But the worst is we don't take advantage of what the technology can provide. The sophistication and the speed of giving information to us that we will disscuss to the students is crucial for us,between the learners and the teachers. Computer is obviously accurate because there are those websites with excellent provider of information.

Tedious task of researching and making visual presentations are huge obstacles for every educators.What we have now is the challenge to know how to make computer as our good tool,and use it as a:
Information Tool,Communication Tool,Situation tool and a co-constructive tool. We will benefit from everything that computer features bring. Much better relief and a much better aid.

Lesson #10


The Computer as a Tutor.


Computer is a reliable tutor for everyone. There are specific task that can be materialized by the computer. In every way learners wanted to learn. Computer is a unique tutorial machine that can aid everything,especially learning. Fun way of learning will always be featured in the computer. Learning is expected to be fun and for sure,it's effectivity will not be underestimated. Everyone wants to have a computer but for fun only, now teachers should make every kids and every learners to realize the advantage of having such a machine of innovation.


Advantages are many to enumerate, the vast capability of the computer is for sure can aid learning. The tough times in the classroom for a teacher in handling learners with different interest,the computer itself is a great help.
Teachers should instruct students in a way that the students will know how to learn from their own pace and learning in the right way.It can motivate learning also,because of it's different features and programs to enhance learnings.

Lesson #9


Computers as Information and Communication Technology.




Every computer which has internet access are well capable of expanding the knowledge of a certain individual in terms of opinion from every source and the facts that are gathered and compiled in every website. It is the primary source of knowledge or information anyway you want it,explore and discover every piece of information that you can organize. Every man who has a knowledge can provide and post,every comments will count to the curiosity that everyone have.
Knowledge will be in many ways,videos,pictures,graphs.Instructional medias come into way,which is provided by the computers.
Everything in computer can be also a means of communication,emails to be specific.Many things are provided by the computer.The technology will help the level of learning increase with catching the interest of the students.

Lesson #8


Higher Thinking Skills Through IT-Based Projects.





This is the chance for the student to show their higher thinking skills and the creativity that the IT based learning environment provided a practice environment to them. Activities are expected to be a knowledge exploration type of activities. Searching for informations, organizing the gathered data, synthesizing ideas, and to create presentations.
IT based projects are capable of developing higher thinking skills and creativity among learners.
* Resource-based projects
* Simple Creations
* Guided Hypermedia projects
* Web-based projects.

The webpages int the internet can gain a lot of ideas from all throughout the world of technology.Links can be found,especially the those educational website.

Lesson #7


IT for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity.




The teachers should understand the higher capability of the student to understand the higher thinking skills and their own creativity. To understand everything much deeper,IT is and aid for this two important factors of learning for the teaching and learning activities. There are specific frameworks for the teachers to follow.

Things in teaching and learning that can be included in this activities are 
designing,generating,brain storming,evaluating,integrating. Things that are only present to a students that are taught in the new way of teaching that follows the IT.

Sub-skills that can be found just within the process of higher thinking skills and creativity.
to name a few defining problems, identifying and constructing ideas,visualizing,planning.
It is expected to have a good result in the teaching and learning process.

The skills that are acquired can help the students to innovate with the ideas that they have gathered.




LESSON #6

IT Enters A New Learning Environment.

Teachers of the new age will try to enhance learning through new style of learning activities which can give an assurance to the learning of every students. Students of the new age can adopt to this method of teaching with the availability of the internet. Students for sure will be interested of the potential capabilities of the computer that is beyond any learning materials that teachers used in the traditional style of teaching. 
Everything has a meaning for the students  in this form of teaching. These 3 can be present in IT entering into the learning environment of the students.
* Discovery in every ideas that the computer can present,exploration will surely lead to discovery of important learning,students experience the exploration of knowledge and discovery that's why the most possible thing is the retention and learning with heart.
* Generative Learning which will allow the students to come up and produce their ideas and learnings,generate new ideas which will help them in a lot of ways,the best thing it can give to the students is the comprehensive analysis on everything that they had explored.
* Constructivism comes last,in such a way that from those explored and discovered ideas, students can create the fact of the given topic. It is the most essential factor of the teaching in the age of the computer.