1. State-of-the-Art
ET
Application
Practices
BY: Cleoda E. Dimalanta

2. Looking through progressive
state policies that support
technology-in-education,
and other new
developments in
pedagogical practice, our
educators today have
become more aware and
active in adopting state-of-
the-art educational
technology practices they
can possibly adopt.

3. The following trends should
also be recognized by
educators:

4. Through school or
training center
computer courses,
present-day students
have become computer
literate. They send e-
mail, prepare computer
encoded class reports,
even make power-point
presentation sometimes
to the surprise of their
media tradition-bound
teachers.

5. Following the call for
developing critical
thinking among
students, teachers have
deemphasized rote
learning and have spent
more time in methods to
allow students to
comprehend/internalize
lessons.

6. Shifting focus from
lower-level traditional
learning outcomes,
student
assessment/examinations
have included
measurement of higher
level learning outcomes
such as creative and
critical thinking skills.

7. Recent teaching-learning
models (such as
constructivism and social
constructivism) have paved
the way for instructional
approaches in which students
rely less on teachers as
information-givers, and instead
more on their efforts to acquire
information, build their own
knowledge, and solve
problems.

8. Virtue is in moderation and
so, there is truly a need for
teachers to balance their time
to the preparation and
application of instructional
tools. Through wise technical
advice, schools can also
acquire the most appropriate
computer hardware and
software. At the same time,
training should ensure that the
use of ET is fitted to learning
objectives
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9. In addition, teachers
should acquire
computer skills for so
that they can serve as
models in integrating
educational technology
in the teaching-learning
process.

11. Following modern
trends in technology-
related education, schools
should now foster a
student-centered learning
environment, wherein
students are given leeway
to use computer
information sources in their
assignments, reports and
presentation in written,
visual, or dramatic forms.

12. All these suggestion
show that teachers
and schools can no
longer avoid the
integration of
educational
technology in
instruction.

13. Especially in the
coming years, when
portable and mobile
computing will make
computing activities
easier to perform, the
approaches to
classroom pedagogy
musts change.

14. And with continuing
changes in high-speed
communication, mass
storage of data, including
the revolutionary
changes among school
libraries, educators
should be open for more
drastic educational
changes in the years
ahead.