This document discusses the roles of educational technology in learning. It can serve as a delivery vehicle for instructional lessons or as a teacher itself. Technology tools like word processors, databases, and spreadsheets are productivity tools. The rise of the internet in the mid-1990s brought communications and multimedia to the classroom, providing opportunities for learner-technology interaction and meaningful learning. From a constructivist perspective, technology can serve as a tool for knowledge construction, an information vehicle for exploring knowledge, and a social medium for learning through conversation and as an intellectual partner for reflection. When used effectively, research shows technology increases learning, understanding, achievement, and motivation while encouraging collaboration and developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

1. Renalyn P. Espinola
Amapel M. Capinig
BEED Gen.Ed2B

2. The Roles of
Educational
Technology in
Learning
Lesson 3:

3. “Technology
makes the
world a
better

4. YES!!! or NO???

7. Technology can…….
Play a traditional role.
A delivery vehicles for
instructional lessons.
Technology serves as
a teacher.

11. Technology like “COMPUTERS” is
seen as a productivity tool.
* Word Processing
* databases
* spreadsheets
*graphic programs
*desktop publishing

12. With the eruption of “INTERNET”
in mid 90’s communications and
multimedia have dominated the
role of technology inside the
classroom. It provides
opportunities for technology and
learner interaction for
meaningful learning.

13. From a constructivist perspective, the following
are role of technology in learning: (Jonassen,
et al 1999)
*Technology as tools to support knowledge
Construction
*Technology as information vehicle for
exploring knowledge to support learning by
construction .
*Technology as a social medium to support
learning by conversing.
*Technology as intellectual partner to support
learning by reflecting.

14. * For defining a safe, controllable
problem space for student thinking
* For collaborating with others
*For discussing, arguing, and building
consensus among members of a
community.
* For supporting discourse among
knowledge-building communities

15. *For reflecting on what they have learned
and how they came to know it.
*For helping learners to articulate and
represent what they know.
*For supporting internal negotiations
and meaning making.
*For constructing personal
representations of meaning for
supporting mindful thinking.

16. Whether used from the traditional or
constructivist point of view, when USED
effectively. Research indicates that
technology “increases students’ learning,
understanding, and achievements but also
their motivation to learn, encourage
collaborative learning and supports the
development of critical thinking and
problem solving skills .

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