My Portfolio in Educational Technology

Lea Ann S. RedobleBEEd III-C

The studentWhat is Educational Technology?Technology: Boon or BaneThe Roles of Educational Technology in

LearningThe Roles of Technology in LearningCone of Experience Learning through Educational Technology 1

& 2

OUTLINE:

I am Lea Ann S. Redoble, 29 years old. Currently studying at Cebu Technological University, Moalboal, Campus, taking up Bachelor in Elementary Education (BEEd).

The student

What is Educational Technology?

Educational

Technology

It is a Profession

like Teaching

It is a field study which is concerned with the practice of using educational

methods and resources.

It is a field involved in applying a

complex, integrated process to analyze and solve problems in human learning.

It is a method for engaging learning such as cognitive

learning strategies and critical

thinking skills.

Technology is in our hands. After understanding what educational technology is all about, it may be good to reflect on whether this thing called technology is a boon or a bane to education, a blessing or a curse to education.

Technology: Boon or Bane

It means a blessing.

BOON

Students are collaborating with their thesis project using google docs.

Students are expressing their thoughts about the impact of internet towards their studies using blog spot.

BOON:

It means a curse.

BANE

The learner is made to accept as gospel truth information they get from the internet.

The TV makes the learner a mere spectator not an active participant in the drama of life.

The learner surfs the internet for zombie games.

BANE:

THE ROLES OF EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING

Traditional wayi.e. as delivery vehicles for instruction

lessons.

Constructivist wayi. e. as partner in the learning process.

TECHNOLOGY

TRADITIONAL WAY

The learner learns from the technology serve as a TEACHER.

Technology serves as source and presenter of knowledge

Technology like computers is seen as productivity tool.

It is assumed that “knowledge is embedded in the technology and the technology presents that knowledge to a student.”

Technology serves as a PARTNER IN LEARNING.

Educational technology serves as learning tools to learn with.

CONSTRUCTIVIST WAY

It provides opportunities for technology and learner interaction for meaningful learning.

It engages learners in active, constructive, intentional, authentic and cooperative learning.

For representing learner’s ideas, understanding, and beliefs.

For producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases by learners.

1. Technology as tools to support knowledge construction:

For accessing needed information

For comparing perspectives, beliefs and world views

2. Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-

constructing

For representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems, situations and contexts.

For representing beliefs, perspectives, arguments and stories of others.

For defining a safe controllable problem space for student thinking.

3. Technology as context to support learning-by-doing

For collaborating with others.

For discussing, arguing and building consensus among members of a community.

For supporting discourse among knowledge-building communities.

4. Technology as a social medium to support learning by conversing:

For constructing personal representations of meaning

For helping what learners to articulate and represent what they know

For reflecting on what they have learned and how they came to know it

5. Technology as intellectual partner to support learning-by-reflecting:

It is pictorial device that presents the learning experiences arranged according to the degree of abstraction.

The Cone of Experiences(by: Edgar Dale)

Visual Symbols

Recordings: Radio, Still Pictures

Motion Pictures

Educational Television

Exhibit

Study Trips

Demonstrations

Dramatized Experience

Contrived Experiences

Direct Purposeful Experiences

LEARNING THROUGH EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 1 & 2

There is little doubt that information and communication technologies have changed the world in which we live. They have enabled us to communicate, learn, work and relate to one another differently.

As the representative body that is responsible for the states’ purse strings, legislators also are demanding more rigorous evidence that education funding is increasing student achievement before they make significant additional investment. In particular, because technology is a relatively new tool in education, a high level of scrutiny often is placed on technology’s effectiveness.

As a future teacher, we must engaged our students of the new digital world of information technology or modern world society because we are now in 21st century.

When they are implemented, instructional courseware, digital content and other electronic learning resources can help meet intermediary goals that can lead to improved student achievement, making technology an essential tool in teaching.

“Learning by doing.”- John Dewey