Technology is considered as a tool for learning and it is important that it should be integrated in the classroom setting to promote competence among the students in developing their skills through their own actual experiences.
1. Bicol University
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Guinobatan, Albay
Lesson 12
Information Technology
in support of
Student-Centered
Learning
Prepared by:
Alyssa O. Magalona
III−BAT −ATE1
2. The idea of student-centered
learning is not a recent idea.
3. In fact, as early as the
20th century ,
educational educators
such as John Dewey
argued for highly
active and
individualized
pedagogical methods
which place the
student as the center
of the teaching-
learning process.
John Dewey
11. TEACHER
(FACILITATOR)
• Student centered learning
is focused on the students’
needs, abilities, interests
and learning styles with the
teacher as a facilitator of
learning.
13. The new school classroom environment
is characterized by students individually
or in groups.
• Performing
computer word
processing for
a text for
graph
presentation.
16. PARIAAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
• Brainstorming
on ideas,
problems and
project plans
as needed
• The teacher
facilitating
instruction to
serve
individual
needs.
17. Technology
in
Education
Technology is a tool for
learning
It should be integrated
across the curriculum
To gain effectiveness,
efficiency and economy
in education
Students become active
and not passive learners
Demonstrating independence and
self-awareness in the learning
process.
Teachers’ training should focus on
curriculum integration as well as on
skills.
18. Ways in which technology can help
facilitate a student-centered
classroom:
Empower the learner
Adopt technological tools in the
classroom to teach
Making the students responsible for
his own learning
Subjecting students to regular
evaluation.
