Lesson 5: Preferences of Technology Generation

Lesson 5:

 

Preferences of Technology Generation 

What the old generation likes may not be the same as what the new generation prefers in their life, work and leisure. Sad to say, much of the good things enjoyed by elders when they were students are no longer available to the new generation.

The state dictates educational priorities based on perceptions on the country’s need to strengthen its agricultural, business or industrial economy.

In the field of education, it is important that critical differences in perception between old and young which create a generation gap:

 ·         Texts versus Visual

·         Linear versus Hypermedia

    

 ·         Independent vs social learners

    
      ·        Learning to do versus learning to pass the test

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     ·       Delayed rewards versus instant gratification

 ·         Rote memory versus fun learning

In sum, teachers need to connect with digital learners, and not think of them as entering their past-30 years old traditional world. While there are apparent setbacks or limitations to digital learning, there are opportunities to tap through:

• ·         visual learning
• ·         hyperlinked multimedia
• ·         problem-solving activities

Lesson 4: Bridging the Generation Gap

Lesson 4

Bridging the Generation Gap

Bridging the Generation Gap is a lesson where it talks about the changes that our educational system is now experiencing. As to the educational technology advancement, schools from progressive countries are fortunate enough compared to our country, the Philippines. Technologies are actually well-known to us but not all are able to use any of those because of poverty and scarcity of resources. Although, there are still those well-off people or school who can exploit it and that they are lucky because there is something which can help them in their studies. By that, to bridge the gap of the generation from the traditional to the modern one, information and communication technology (ICT) was introduced. Through this, we as a developing country will be globally competitive as to the advancement in terms of technology because educational system is now adapting this for the common good of the new generation learners.

 

Lesson 3: Understanding Technology Learners

Lesson 3

Understanding Technology Learners

Learners these days are more visual presentation made and these are displayed by their educators. They are not interested if the discussion is more on or is based entirely on books. Some way or another, having this new innovation made the method for showing too hard in light of the fact that the instructor MUST have or get something quite recently to in their understudies dissimilar to before everything was so basic. In any case, then, we must adapt up to what our surroundings are currently into, and that is fundamentally Innovation. It is on us on how we keep it adjust without going up against it harsh path for both educator and learners. How about we make utilization of it on a way it could help and we can learn. Not to damage by any stretch of the imagination.

The new generation of the 21st millennium is not the kind of learner that they were, but are information technology or digital learners.

   Lest the concern for new learners is not well understood, it serves to know what scientists say, as follows:

• There are positive benefits derived from the use of information technology or digital resources and these counterbalance possible negative effects of technology on children.
• Daily exposure to high technology-personal computers, video games gadgets, cellphones, Internet search sites – stimulates the brain by strengthening and creating neural circuits.
• A current technological revolution is creating an intellectual revolution, faster and better than ever before.

Lesson 2: An Overview of EdTech 2

Lesson 2:

An Overview of EdTech 2

Educational Technology 2 

- Concerned with Integrating Technology into Teaching and learning

For learners:

-  To introduce reinforce, supplement and extend knowledge and skill that they can become exemplary users of educational technology

For student teachers and professional teachers

- to update their knowledge of educational technology

Educational Technology 2

•      Involved a deeper understanding of the computer as well as hands-on application of computer skills

•        Aims to infuse technology in the students teachers training, helping them to adapt and meet rapid and continuing technological changes, particularly in the global ICT environment. 

•       Used information technology to improve not only instruction but the school management programmed curriculum

Learning Objectives of EdTech 2

1. To provide education in the use of technology in instruction

2. To impart learning experiences in instructional technology supported instructional planning

3.  To acquaint students on IT related learning theories with the computer as a tutor

4. To learn to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources

5. To engage learners on practical technology integration issues

6. To inculcate higher level thinking and creativity among students while providing then knowledge of IT-related learning theories.

   

Lesson 1: A Review of EdTech 1

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

LESSON 1 ;

               A REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 1

            The Education Technology 1 (ET-1) course has truly paved the way for the learner to become aware, appreciative and equipped to use educational technology 1 tools ranging from traditional to modern educational media.

            Truly, the foundation for a truly satisfying exposure to educational technology has been firmly laid down by the ET- 1 course, starting with the through treatment of the history of educational technology, quality education, and the roles of ET in the 21th millennium.

            In ET-1, the learner was also oriented towards averting the dangers of dehumanization which technology brings into societies, such as through ideological propaganda, pornography, financial fraud, and other exploitative use of technology. Sad to say, these dangers continue to affect peoples and cultures while widening the gap between rich and poor countries.

 Four Phases of Application of Educational Technology in Teaching and Learning ;

 1. Setting of learning objectives
 2. Designing specific learning experiences
 3. Evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experiences vis-à-vis the learning objectives, and
 4. Revision as needed of the whole teaching-learning process, or elements of it, for further improving future instructional activities.

            Adding to the technology sophistication of the learner, educational technology 1 fitting refined the distinction between educational technology and other concepts, such as instructional technology (which is the use of technology and instruction, different from school management), educational media (or equipment and materials, apart from the teacher himself), audio visual aids (or learning media to stir the senses for more effective learning).

            In sum, educational technology 1 served:

•         To orient the learner to the pervasiveness of educational technology in society.
•         To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media for the avenues teaching-learning process in this school.
•         To uplift the learner to human learning through the use of learning technology.
•         To impart skills in planning, designing, using and evaluating the technology-enriched teaching-learning process.
•         To acquaint learners on the basic aspects of community education, functions of the school media center, and finally.
•          To introduce the learner to what is recognized as the third revolution in education, the computer.