IMPORTANCE &
ROLES OF
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
BY:
MARILOU D. JAMERO
Juan Tamad
TECHNOLOGY
makes the
WORLD
a BETTER PLACE
What is Technology?
What is Technology?
What is
Educational
Technology?
What is Educational Technology?
What is Educational Technology?
Benefits of Technology in
Education
 Instructional Effectiveness
See
Read
Hear
Experience multimedia
Student’s Achievement
Playing
Games
Solving
Problems
Interactive
Technologies
 Active Learning
Stimulating
Environment
 Critical Thinking
Higher-Level thinking skills
What
is 3?
What x
+ y?
 Cooperative Learning
Leadership abilities
teamwork
Self-esteem
These conditions uplift the ego of
the slow learners and give a sense
of achievement among the bright
ones through helping others improve
their learning
 Communication Skills
Integrating telecommunications
- pronunciation
- diction
- enunciation
Exposure to good and correct
grammar will enable them to get
used to speaking and proper
communication
 Multisensory Delivery
Technology supplies information
through multiple channels, allowing the
students with multiple learning styles
to assimilate and apply knowledge.
The more senses are involved, the
better the assimilation of knowledge
and learning.
 Multicultural Education
Telecommunications make it possible
To expand classroom walls and link
Students and teachers in national and
International exchanges
Be Glocal
Importance of
Educational
Technology
LearningSchool
 conversant with technology
show improvements in their
writing, reading and math skills
 decrease in dropout rates,
improvement in school
attendance and enhancement in
their learning abilities
 Technology in school benefits
children during higher
education: strong foundation
 Computers offer livelier
explanations of various
subjects: Internet
 Learning process becomes
enjoyable thus inviting
greater interest : motivation
 Worldwide knowledge can be
assimilated
 Simplified administration
process : electronic
- Database (personnel’s record)
- Library system
- Attendance
Decreased use of paper (e-
format)
Adjectives:
- Give 5 words to describe each word
except color
Take 5!
1. Cat – Face your partner
2. Rat – How you describe your Enemy
3. Dog – How you describe your Friend
4. Ocean – how you view life
5. Coffee – how you describe your sex
life
Importance of
Educational
Technology
School Learning
So? What is really an
educational technology for
you?
- Delivery vehicles for instructional lessons
- Partners in the learning process
TECHNOLOGY serves as a medium in
Representing what the learner knows and
what he/she is learning
 Technology provides important
tools to support knowledge
construction for presenting
learner’s ideas, understandings
and beliefs and for producing
organized, multimedia knowledge
bases for learners
Manuals, workbooks
Slides, posters, diorama,
storyboard
 Technology serves as
information vehicles for
exploring knowledge to
support learning-by-
constructing
Books InternetResearch & Resources
 Technology is important when
used for comparing
perspectives, beliefs and
world views
Newspaper Internet
Current issues
& events
Pool of data
COMPARE
TECHNOLOGY
CONTEXT
SOCIAL
MEDIUM INTELLECTUAL
PARTNER
Support learning
by doing
Support learning
by conversing
- Using real
objects
Ex. Rough vs.
smooth,
Smell with colors,
Hard vs. soft,
- Collaborating,
- discussing, arguing,
- knowledge building
Ex. Analyzing best
candidates,
Community awareness
campaign
Activity sessions (what,
why & how)
- Reflection/journal
- Dialogical thinking
- Personal
representation
Reasons of Using
Technology
1. Technology is composed of tools to
facilitate learning, thus should be used
in education
2. Research has shown the effectiveness
of computer-based methods
Roles of Educational
Technology in Education
What are the Four Pillars of
Education?
What are 21st Century
Skills?
What are the four Pillars of
Education?
1. Learning to Learn
2. Learning to do
3. Learning to Live Together
4. Learning to Be
-enables one to address coping with
situations that need knowledge,
greater intellectual curiosity, shapes
the mental faculties and enables
one to make judgment on the things
and situations they experienced
- equips one with certain skills to
undertake certain task to be
productive and competent
- learners put into action what
they learned and the task is
translated to actual manipulation
- Provides individual the
potential for harmonious
relationship with people around
them.- Unity in diversity
- Gives an individual a picture of
what he plans to be after certain
periods in his lifetime
- Provide goal
ELEMENTS FOR USING
TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION
1. Motivation
 Gaining learner attention
 Encouraging the learner through
Production work
 Increasing perceptions of learner
control
 Technology use as motivation
ELEMENTS FOR USING
TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION
2. Unique Instructional Capabilities
 Linking learners to information
sources (hyperlink)
 Enabling learners visualize problems
and solutions (interactive visual
media)
ELEMENTS FOR USING
TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION
2. Unique Instructional Capabilities
 Tracking learners’ progress (e-
portfolio)
 Linking learners to learning tools
ELEMENTS FOR USING
TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION
 Cooperative learning
 Shared intelligence
 Problem solving and Higher-level
skills
3. Support for New Instructional
Approaches
ELEMENTS FOR USING
TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION
 Technology Literacy
 Information Literacy
 Visual Literacy
4. Required skills for an information age
Who uses technology?
1. Teachers
2. Students
3. Administrators
4. Parents
What are the impacts of
technology in education?
1. Develops a positive attitude towards
learning
2. Increases skills of students
3. Increases work skills for the
workforce
3. Not all teachers are comfortable
using technology, creating
inconsistencies
What are potential problems?
1. Distracts some students
2. Can be very expensive to keep
updated
4. Teacher are not properly trained
4. It is clear that the technology will
directly encourage the learning of all
students
Being a teacher…..
1. Understand what technology you are
using
2. Determine how this technology will
better serve your goals and objectives
3. Make sure the technology is
enhancing your lessons
Education is not for the
CONVENIENCE of the
teachers but to the
LEARNERS
Know HOW to do
than
Know WHAT to do
INNOVATE
Creating things EASY

Importance & roles of educational technology ppt

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