Rosalie G. Alegarbes BSEd
General Science4 MW 3:00pm-5:00pm
Lesson 11: Computer as a Teacher’s Tool
Content
Computers
served to be a handy tool of most teachers, aside from that it can support both
the constructivist and social constructivist approach to teaching.
Constructivist was introduced by Piaget and Bruner that gives emphasis to
knowledge discovery of new meaning, concepts and principles in the learning
process. In here, students construct their knowledge individually. While social
constructivism is an effort to show that the construction of knowledge is
governed by social, historical, and cultural contexts.
Based on
the two learning theories, the teacher can employ the computer as: an information tool- the computer can
provide vast amounts of information in various forms such as text, graphics,
sound, and video. The internet can provide an enormous database from which user
can access global information resources. So for the constructivist, it is not
enough that students will just download or gather the information, instead it
will be used to construct projects given by the teacher. Constructive tool- the computer can be used to manipulate
information, visualize one’s understanding of new knowledge. Situating tool- computer can create 3-D
images on display to give the user the feeling that are situated in a virtual
environment. Examples of situating systems are Multi-User Domains or Dungeons
(MUDs), MUD Object Oriented (MOOs) and Multi-User Shared Hallucination (MUSH).
Experience
It is so
amazing that just a single machine, it can perform a lot of tasks. This only
shows that indeed computers are the breakthrough in technology. It also implies
that computers are a great help, especially to the teachers. For the past
years, teachers have been employing constructivist approach, but because of the
advent of computers teachers use it to employs social
constructivism. Because of these computers, teachers as well as students can now
acquire high level of knowledge. Today, most of the things we do are too
dependent on computers. That is why effective teachers will not just let their
students gather information in the internet rather they will let their students use this information in
making another one. Just like what we are doing most of the time, we gather the
basic information or do some research then after which, the
information that we have acquired will be used for the real activity. Most of the time,
we do our activities collaboratively. Aside from constructing we develop our
social or interpersonal skills.
Reflection
Indeed
computers have been a part of everyone. It can perform a lot of work. Doing
things are easier and convenient. For the teachers, computers have been a great
help in achieving learning objectives. Aside from that, learning becomes more
enjoyable. It is really true that computers are handy tools especially in
employing constructivist and social constructivist approach to teaching. By this computers, students become more independent and confident on
their works in a sense that they will not just depend on the knowledge that a
teacher can give. Interpersonal skill will also be developed because most of
the activities require collaboration.
Application
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