Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Technology as it should.
Educators should be familiar with technology, how to use it, how to develop it, and how to implement it according to students’ need so it would be the right tool to enhance learning. Although expensive, technology, which needed to be thoroughly discovered, helps students to better achieve their goal of learning. As educators, we should implement tools through revolutionary methods for better teaching. Technology is a tool of learning and it is not the learning itself. The responsibility of learning takes place when the four of them: students, educators, administrators and policy makers are committed. Hence, Technology should be taught to all four parties for better education. Firstly, students must be active while using technology by searching, analyzing, charting results and recording of achievement. Secondly, educators should understand and promote the diversity of results, outcomes and answer. Also, teachers should plan to integrate technology, share experiences, design and develop program according to the curriculum needs. Thirdly, administrators should understand that a classroom is like a hive with buzzing bees inside and that it is very important to understand that todays’ education is about involvement and interaction rather than lecturing. Therefore, a teacher should encourage team-work rather than individual effort which may result of a busy, messy bee classroom; only then we know that real education is taking place. Lastly, policymakers through government should insure the availability of technology in each classroom when supplying the proper budget.




Just as the Multiple Intelligence theory identified different types of learners according to students’ abilities; Net Gen Learners learn by interacting to internet in many different techniques.
Firstly; learning by doing; Net Gent. Learn by being dynamic, motivated, innovative, and creative while pursuing their interest study, ho and hobbies.
Using a variety of programs such as: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, digital videos , new software , all sorts of up to dated programs; they read the manual, follow instructions, trial and error, which I personally do and admit that learning is far more better by doing!
Secondly; Net Gent learn better by human interaction; not isolation; they work in groups, teams to grasp information as they share it together through guided interaction and fruitful feedback from professor.
Thirdly; the cut and paste culture which eventually leads to plagiarism. Personally, I believe it is not about acquiring information anymore rather than actually using it because it is not difficult to get and search for information as it exists tremendously on the internet.
To fulfill l the maximum learning potential challenges of funding; learning the skill of how to access internet are to be faced and dealt with in the future.

Finally, technology needs to be taught to students’ as it needs to be relevant to the subject being taught.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you that all the students administrators educators and even parents should be educated how to deal with technology and know what's the importance of using technology in the classroom. Because I have a problem with the parents who think using technology is useless and they wouldn't care for any emails sent from the school or teachers. I usually send the PPTs and extra videos for my kids so that it would help them study in an interesting way, but unfortunately the parents wouldn't let them. They would think that they're going to play and waste their time. Even the school I work in decided to send the students' report online, but the parents refused and demanded the school to send a hard copy report! Although I'm pretty sure that they all have laptops and smart phones.
    I believe it's just because people always resist new things or things they don't know.

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