Rosalie G. Alegarbes BSEd General Science4 MW 3:00-5:00pm
Content
The
first revolution in education is the invention of the printing press, the
second one is the introduction of libraries and the third one is the invention
of computer. Through computer
technology, educators saw the amplification of learning along computer
literacy. Soon computer-assisted instruction (CAI) was introduced using the
principle of individualized learning through a positive climate that includes
realism and appeal with the drill exercises that uses color, music and
animation. Instructional media consist of audio-visual aids that served to
enhance and enrich the teaching and learning process. While educational
communication media comprise the media of communication to audiences including
learners using the print, film, radio, television or satellite means of
communication. The following are programs normally installed on a personal
computer: Microsoft office, PowerPoint, excel, internet explorer, yahoo or
google, adobe reader, MSN, windows media player, cyberlink power and game
house.
Experience
Everyone
would still be amazed how a single computer can hold a lot of programs which
are really helpful and useful not just in school matters but also in different
industries. I could still remember how traditional instruction is being done by
my past teachers, and now we are already in the digital instruction where the
advent of technology is being used in the educative process.
I could also
still remember how my teacher would let one of my classmates write the lesson
on the board and let everyone of us copy it on our notebooks. I could still
imagine myself when I was in grade 3 pointing a stick on a manila paper and let
my classmates read on what was written there.
I could still recall how we memorize what’s inside the book because our
teacher will have an exam and it needs mastery of the topic. But today, the
advancement of technology helps us students to think that learning is fun,
getting the information that we needed is really accessible and doing things is
much easier. By just a single click, then everything is thereJ. Technology did really influence the educative
process. In the past, we depend on what the teacher would dictate to us, they
are our only source of information but
these days, teachers will just give instruction on what we should do, then
facilitate and it’s for us how are we going to solve or find solution on the
given problem or task.
Reflection
Computers
are really a great product of technology. It makes our work even easier,
accessible and convenient. Just a single computer, it can do a lot of things.
One of the programs being installed here is the Microsoft excel which is really
helpful in computing the grades of the students. It enhances the teaching and
learning process because a teacher can use a program installed in it to enrich
the learnings of the students. Computers would really be a help for the teachers
as well as to the students to communicate each other. The invention and the
advent of computer made the way to digital instruction. The aim of changing the
ways of evaluation, acquiring basic digital skills as well as developing the
higher thinking skills is the result of the arrival of the computers. The need
to adopt to new world is the result of computers. This shows that computers are
really influential.
Application
The
innovation of these computers is inevitable. That is why past lessons are
emphasizing on the need for the teachers to adopt to what is new--- in terms of
instruction as well in evaluation. The combination of instructional media and
educational communication media can be found in a computer. So, as a future
teacher, I can use this one as a help in achieving my goals in instruction. I
can us computer as an instructional media by making my lesson more interactive
with the use of computer applications or programs. By letting my students see a
video, it will help enhance their knowledge more on that topic. Through the use
of computer, my students can acquire information by surfing on the net--- by
this, me as a teacher will not just the source of information. A computer is
also an educational communication media in sense that I can still communicate
my students even outside the classroom with the use of facebook, gmail, edmodo
and etc. Furthermore, computer as an Information and Communication Technology
reflects the skills of the teacher on how a teacher will facilitate the
learning process and help the development of their basic digital skills as well
as their higher thinking skills.
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