Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Prof. Ed 8 (Educational Technology)

Activity 1

1.Discuss the disparity in Educational Technology advancement in schools of industrialized country such as, US, Japan, and Singapore and still the developing country namely the Philippines.

 Answer:
           The disparity in Educational technology advancement in schools of industrialized country such as US, Japan, and Singapore and still a developing country namely the Philippines.The first world country has a high level of economy, they can afford to buy a high quality educational technology or they can invent their own.Industrialized country are the producer of modern technology in the world.They has an ample supply of Technology such as computers in their schools. Their students has their own PC or Laptops for online education.They did not to go in school,if they has an assignment or test they can stay at their houses to answer those question, their teacher send to them via E-mail and they will pass their answer by sending back to their teacher via E-mail.They are uses common source of information which is internet.Their Education is essay and hassle free.However here in the Philippines, we are behind in terms of educational technology to be used in our school.We are still the developing country, we can't afford to buy modern and high quality educational technology.We are lack of supplies of computers in school. There are schools that has no unit of computer especially in rural areas.Even high school students did not how to use computers or even the teachers.Mostly of the schools here are using traditional method in educating students the board, paper and chalk.

2.Given the lack of resources in our rural areas in the Philippines.What media can still used for effective learning in schools?

  Answer:     
             Learning tools is very important in teaching and learning process. Here in our country especially in rural areas has no internet and computers to used as instructional materials.The effective media used are old newspapers,textbooks, magazines,manila papers and etc. teachers use that as their visual aids .The teacher need to be resourceful , artistic, creative and initiative enough in developing or making and using this instructional tools to get or catch attention of their learners.  

Activity 2

 1.Many college students are required to take computer courses including word processing (microsoft office), spreadsheet preparation (excel), presentation technique (powerpoint) etc. How do you think this will help application skills needed in Ed. Tech. 2?

  Answer:
             We are now in global world it is very important to every students to have knowledge in the use of technology in preparation on their career chosen. For us the future educator it is a big help to have knowledge in computer to lessen our work such as making presentations, lesson plan and for computing grades.The microsoft office, Excel, Powerpoint is a very helpful application to every student to make their task easy.This application is a big help to create a new and more understandable and creative presentations.

2.From those who have done internet surfing/ searching /reading, what do websites offer to users? 

  Answer:
             Websites is very important it offers to users an ample useful of information.It offers networking sites such as facebook and twitter.We can communicate each other ,it make us nearer with each other.It also provides enjoyable activities such as watching online movies and playing online games.

 3.Australia I.T. initiatives
                     (http.//.www.deet.gov.au/schools/adelaide.text.htm)
              
                In the schools of Adelaide Declaration on national Goals for schools, information technology is one of the national goals/ learning areas students should achieve.Student should be  confident,creative and productive users of new techniques in society.
                 The plans for achieving the national goal for IT are left to individual states of territories with the Educational Network Australia (EdNa) as the coordinating and advisory body.Across the states and territories , the common features to planning, finding and implementation strategies are:

                     >East and local wide area network linking schools across state and territory.
                     >Substanial numbers of computers in schools ensuring adequate access.
                     >Continuing teacher training in the use of technology for instruction.
                     >Technical support to each school.
                     >Sufficient hardware and software.
                     >Digital Library resources.
                     >Technology demonstration as model for schools.

Activity 3

  1.What are the effect of innovation of technology in Education?

     Answer:            
               Innovation of Technology is very useful to education because it is burden free.Example in school, the teacher did not need to carry a lot of books instead they can file their lessons to be teach in the computer.the learning is fastest because it uses internet you can search what you want to know.Innovation it also affects to education especially in teachers and students.It can developed laziness in both of them because they are very dependent in internet such as in getting ideas.

2.Explain the disadvantages and advantages of 21st classroom.Site an example.

   Answer:                
              The advantage of 21st century classroom, it uses technology for easy and hassle free learning.Example the teacher did not need to use traditional teaching, they can use projector for instruction or the student has their own PC.The disadvantage is the student has a lack of discipline because they feel they are free.

Activity 4

       Capabilities of different programs:

1.capabilities of Microsoft office
                           Microsoft office capabilities are Linking,use styles to create content, take notes and access features.Digital note taking, it helps keep notes handy in the cloud and across multiple devices with one note.
2.Capabilities of Powerpoint
                         Capabilities of PowerPoint Are  adding smart, inserting shapes and images, slide transitions, adding animation Power point employed direct attention to an outline of the presentation or display graphs and pictures or to focus the audience on key points.
3. Capabilities of Excel
                          Capabilities of excel are pivot tables, conditionals formatting, sorting and filtering, basic math and mixed type
4. Capabilities of Microsoft word
                           Capabilities of microsoft word are Checking your spelling,utilizing the benefits of mail merge, find and replace, inserting watermarks, inserting your header and footer,and using hyperlinks strategically.
5.Capabilities of Internet Explorer
                            Capabilities of Internet explorer  Cleaner interface,tab pinning , its Fact, tab isolation,Download manager,Tracking protection list, Smart screen filter,one box and standard compliance.
6.Capabilities of Yahoo or Google
                            Capabilities of Yahoo or google are my yahoo, Flikr, Delicious, Yahoo pipes,yahoo maps,Yahoo developer network, Yahoo finance, Yahoo mobile, and Yahoo hot jobs.
7.Capabilities of Adobe reader 
                              Capabilities of adobe reader are read adobe portable  documents format files,,Read PDF files aloud using standard windows or Mac osx operating system text to speech functionality , utilize advance reading functions using windows-based screen readers.
8.Capabilities of Windows media player 
                              Capabilities of windows media player are library view, now playing view with top a video, video play back controls, now playing playlist, now playing visualizations and task bar mini viewer.
9.Capabilities of MS publication
                                Capabilities of MS publication are text, design, publish and object.

Activity 5

1.What could you say to educators who say technology in teaching takes time and is expensive?

  Answer:  
             To those educators who say technology in teaching takes time and is expensive they did not know how important technology in teaching.It is expensive but it is very useful if you know how to use technology,it makes teaching and learning process faster.It is an advantage to the educator who know or has an idea to manipulate technology in teaching but to those educator that did not know how to used technology they say that technology takes place and is expensive but if they know the importance and the help of technology in teaching and learning process and they will realize how important technology is even though it is expensive but makes teaching process easy and faster.It is very important that all educators has a knowledge of the used of technology.

2.What can you say about the teachers who use media to make classes fun and entertaining.

 Answer: 
            To those teacher who use media to make classes fun and entertaining, choosing fun is a great idea as long as it is both fun and effective. Media has its ow place,but Learning still has to happen.If they are using media just to make classes fun and entertaining they are abusing the used of media.


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