LESSON 5: Preference between Old and New Generation

               What Old Generation likes may not be the same as what the New Generation prefers in Life, Work and Leisure. Much of the good things enjoyed by elders when they were students are no longer available to the new generation. Vocational, Cultural and Values classes that are widely used by old generations during their time today, it is also available but it has been minimized due to the emphasis on the basics of English, Mathematics and Science.

Text vs. Visual

               Our parents read book text, enrich by illustrations and photos. In order to research, they go to the school library, use the card catalogue for needed books and sign up to borrow books for home reading.

               The technology or digital generation has greater affinity to visuals (photo and video) compared with texts. In fact, they have been exposed since childhood to cable television and videos images especially cartoon characters and then to compute images, in such manner and their visual fluency or abilities have sharpened and enriched.

Linear vs. Hyper Media

               The past-30 year old generation obtained information in a linear, logical and sequential manner. On the positive side, this made them more logical, focused and reflective thinkers.

               The new generation, however, follows a personal random access to hyperlinked digital information, less superior elders in focused and reflection. Thus, they appear to be more easily bored and distracted during class lectures.

Independent vs. Social Learners

               The traditional education system gives priority to independent learning, prior to participative work.

               New learners, however, are already acquainted with digital tools that adapt to both personal and participative work. They take the opportunity for dozens of instantaneous ways to communicate with others mobile calls and text, emails, Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, twitter, wikis and etc. experts describe this mode of digital learning as one that based on experimentation, discovery and intuition.

Learning to do vs. To pass the test

               Old teachers teach students in order to help them pass tests and complete the course requirement.

               On the other hand, the new digital learners simply wish to acquire skills, knowledge and habits as windows of opportunity afford them to learn. Our parents have completed a course and have engaged in a permanent job for most of their lives. A different work situation awaits the digital generation with contractual, multitask and multi-career opportunities in a digital world ahead of them.

Delayed rewards vs. Instant gratification

               The traditional reward system in education consists in the grades, honor certificates/medals and diplomas. Including future jobs, the traditional rewards for the performance.

               On the other hand. Digital learners on their own experience or more immediate gratification through immediate scores from games, enjoyable conversation from web-cam calls, excitement from email chats and inviting comments from their Facebook accounts.

Rote memory vs. Fun learning

               Teachers feel too obliged to delivering content-based courses, the learning of which is measurable by standard tests.

               Digital learners and not surprisingly there is much fun in the digital world outside the school

               Everybody can have less demanding access to training or learning due to innovation, such as having much clear and conceivable route by 3D models or visuals tests in web. In our class, we favor having 3D visuals or models and electronic presentations than simply unimportant address and stuck materials. Additionally, when we are having microteaching we lean toward having features to expound and show different visuals about our lesson, if not, we are having printed photographs. So far this helped our instructors and for us as understudies on conveying and comprehension the lessons.

Reflection

               As we are in these present day times, we, as a future instructor ought to make something new and something else in the teaching and learning procedure. What I mean is the sort of procedure that we ought to consolidate to the learner so they will dependably be intuitive in reacting to learning. Conventional method for educating can in some cases be a weight for those learners who grasped the progressed mechanical framework. Also, they feel sufficiently sluggish in managing those instructors who are as yet honing the customary system. Nonetheless, customary system is great however in the event that we stay with one and only strategy, there is no learning advancement. Cutting edge educating is a result of innovation and since we are as one with the present day times, we are obliged to be mindful of the considerable number of things that are identified with innovation.

LESSON 4: Bridging the Generation Gap

LESSON 4: Bridging the  Generation Gap

               The older generation often feels there is a generation gap between them and the younger generation. This is apparent simple things like the manner of dressing, socializing, more intimate relationships like friendship and marrying. In the field of education, a huge generation gap also exists and it will continue to widen unless some changes are adopted at the proper time. In peasant third world continues where schools don’t have the technology facilities, it is understandable that transition to digital education may take time. But given the rapid emergence of digital technology (ICT), there is the need to prepare for bridging the digital gap in society. First, we need to understand the potentials of ICT:

• The new network of instantaneous communication is global, overcoming borders between countries and continents. 
• Much of what elders believe may not be applicable anymore to the new generations. 
• Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, shows how the information age has begun to create many cultural changes. 

              Since the new generations are expected to face a future professionalism challenge of a digital world ahead of them, technology-supported skills need to be taught in schools today, or else schools will become a white elephant. If schools fail to respond to emergent changes and needs, new learners may lose appreciation of the educational system, and drop out of school, as surveys show an increasing drop-out rate every year.

Reflection

               The main lasting in this world is change; no one can stop or hold back a thing to develop. Regardless of some negative impacts still human keep on discovering and concoct something that could make life less demanding and agreeable. For me, I grasped changes with impediments for I realize that everything has its own time and reason. My outline of this lesson contribute the much on the development of my insight and intelligence particularly on the ICT which help me secure information and data in the most straightforward way. I adapted so much utilizing innovation whenever anyplace. I adapted likewise the estimation of innovation and its one as I contrasted it with experience. It made me understand the significance and its application utilizing creative procedures.

Application

               As a future teachers, facilitators we have to scaffold those old ones to incorporate the computerized advances that is inclining and is more valuable and can make their work simple, and infrequently can give them joy, for diversion and this advanced innovations can mend their yearning to go home to their friends and family and so on . And also the more youthful ones, despite the fact that we are more jumped at the chance to utilize the cutting edge gadgets for its points of interest. We must recognize what the starting point of that certain gadget is, and some of those gadgets are helpful too these days… We must contemplate into our brains that since the new eras are relied upon to face a future expert test of an advanced world in front of us, innovation upheld abilities should be taught in schools today, or else schools will turn into a white elephant.

LESSON 3: Understanding Technology Learners

 LESSON 3: Understanding Technology Learners

             Learners these days are more store of visual presentation made or displayed by their educators more than simply unadulterated tuning in. They are likewise not intrigued much in the discourse if there's nothing to pull in them. Some way or another, having this new innovation made the method for showing too hard in light of the fact that the instructor MUST have or get something quite recently to draw in their understudies dissimilar to before everything was so basic. In any case, then, we must adapt up to what our surroundings are currently into, and that is fundamentally Innovation. It is on us on how we keep it adjust without going up against it harsh path for both educator and learners. How about we make utilization of it on a way it could help and we can learn. Not to damage by any stretch of the imagination.

              The  new generation of the 21st millennium is not the kind of learner that they were, but are information technology or digital learners.

           Lest the concern for new learners is not well understood, it serves to know what scientists say, as follows:

• There are positive benefits derived from the use of information technology or digital resources and these counterbalance possible negative effects of technology on children.
• Daily exposure to high technology-personal computers, video game gadgets, cell phones, Internet search, sites-stimulates the brain by strengthening and creating neural circuits. 
• A current technological revolution is creating an intellectual revolution, faster and better than ever before.

Reflection

               This lesson includes on the best way to comprehend the advanced learners and what are their advantages in captivating this sort of learners in innovation based instructional medias. Researchers said that, there are sure advantages got from the utilization of data innovation or computerized assets and these offset conceivable negative impacts of innovation on kids. Also, every day presentation to high innovation individual computers,video diversion contraptions, cellphones, web pursuit locales animates the mind by reinforcing and making neural circuits. Besides, this current innovative unrest is making a scholarly upheaval, quicker and better than ever some time recently.

Application

            Understanding Technology learners in truly a major point of interest for us future instructors. We can have the capacity to realize what suitable material to utilize that suits to their capacities and aptitudes. It additionally help us to keep up the center and enthusiasm of our learners, and in that a case the learning procedure get to be agreeable for them. 

It is additionally invaluable in the piece of the instructors, in light of the fact that it permits them to investigate and to find new instructional material utilizing innovation. It draws in them to a more greetings tech and advanced sort of learning environment, and it makes their life less demanding than before and less bother.

LESSON 2 : An Overview of Educational Technology 2

            Educational technology 2 is concerned with “Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning.” Specifically this is focused on introducing, reinforcing, supplementing and extending the knowledge and skills to learners so that they can become exemplary users of educational technology. Mainly directed to student teachers, also professional teachers who may wish to update their knowledge of educational technology, it is our goal that this course can help our target learners to weave technology in teaching with software (computer programmed learning materials) becoming a natural extension of their learning tools.


            Necessarily, Educational Technology 2 will involve a deeper understanding of the computer a well as hands-on application of computer skills. But this is not to say that the goal of the course is to promote computer skills. Rather, the course is primarily directed at enhancing teaching-and-learning through technology integration.


            In essence, the course aims to infuse technology in the student-teachers training, helping them to adapt and meet rapid and continuing technological changes particularly in the thriving global information and communication technology (ICT) environment.
More specifically, the course objectives are:

• To provide education in the use of technology in instruction by providing knowledge and skills on technology integration-in-instruction to learners
•    To impart learning experiences in instructional technology-supported instructional planning
• To acquaint students on information technology or IT- related learning theories with the computer as a tutor
• To learn to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources
• To engage learners on practical technology integration issues including managing IT classrooms, use of the internet for learning, cooperative learning through the use of information technology,  etc.
• To inculcate higher level thinking and creativity among students while providing them knowledge of IT-related learning theories.


          While the course is primarily intended for the use of student-teachers, it can also be of great use to professional teachers, school administrators, teacher educators, and in fact anyone who is interested on how information technology can be used to improve not only instruction but the school management and curriculum.

          It may be said, too, that the study of this course on integrating Information Technology in instruction should not be considered as a formidable task, but rather as a refreshing and exciting study given the idea that all learning should be fun.

Here are external manifestations of technology integration into instruction:

•  There’s a change in the way classes are traditionally conducted.

• The quality of instruction is improved to a higher level in such a way that could not have been achieved without educational technology.

• There is planning by the teacher on the process of determining how wand when technology fits into the teaching-learning process.

• The teacher sets instructional strategies to address specific instructional issues/problems.

• The use of technology provides the opening of opportunities to respond to these instructional issues/problems.

• In sum, technology occupies a position (is a simple or complex way) in the instructional process.

Levels of Integration

• Simple/Basic Integration - technology helps, but it does not play a pivotal role.
• Middle Level Integration - there is a purposeful use of technology to support key learning areas.
• High Level Integration - technology is the central instructional tool.

Reflection

      Having these targets connected in our studies in innovation, we will be guided likewise to what are the significance and essential utilized of innovation. These destinations likewise would educate, familiarize and convey us to the more elevated amount of Instructive Innovation. 

      It is dependably the pattern for learners that in every lesson to be made impeccable, one must take after the targets. In the same way, we will be upgraded and refreshingly energized in managing our adapting in Instructive innovation. 

      Innovation is utilized for amusement and playing, as well as innovation is one vital apparatus that would further improve the method for showing and the obtaining of learning for an instructor and an understudy. 

      We are fortunate that the coordination of innovation into showing and learning is currently by and by and included in the educational module. With this, even understudies in the preschool will take in the quality and significance of a PC and different advancements beside the novice learning that a PC is just for diversions and diversion.

Application

      Instructive innovation can be connected in the learning procedure of every person in a manner that the understudies as of now have the information on the best way to utilize it in guideline. It can likewise be connected in our every day living on the grounds that we knew how to utilize PCs or advances legitimately that can't influence or imperil us. We knew the impediments of utilizing advances so we can stay away from over utilizing of it. We likewise knew the impact or disservices of it so we won't going to mishandle it. It can likewise help us how to make force point or features that are valuable in the learning procedure of the understudies. At last on the best way to make an exercises or instructing system that are fun with the utilization of innovation.

LESSON 1 : Review of Educational Technology 1

·                  Educational Technology - is the application of educative process that takes place in education institution.

               On the application of educational technology to instruction, Educational Technology 1 showed the 4 phases of application of educational technology in teaching-and-learning, namely; (a) setting of learning objectives (b) designing specific learning experiences (c) evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experiences vis-à-vis the learning objectives, and (d) revision as needed of the whole teaching-learning process, or elements of it, for further improving future instructional activities

• Technology in Education - is the application of technology in the operation of education institution.
• Instructional Technology - is refers to aspects of educational technology that are concerned with instruction.
• Technology Integration- using technologies in learning to introduce, supplement and extend skills.

Roles of Technology in Learning

Learning Objectives of Educational Technology 1:

?    To orient the learner to the pervasiveness of educational technology in society

?    To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media for the avenues teaching-learning process in the school

?    To uplift the learner to human learning through the use of learning technology

?    To impart skills in planning, designing, using and evaluating the technology-enriched teaching-learning process

?    To acquaint learners on basic aspects of community education, functions of the school media center, and finally

?    To introduce to learner to what it recognized as the third revolution in education, the computer.

Reflection

         Discussing the first world nations which have headway in schools industrialization contrast with our nation, the Philippines, there is this dissimilarity of instruction on the grounds that Philippines is as yet growing regarding innovation. Give us a chance to take for case the US; their innovation is much more progressed than our own, that what we see as the new innovation here in the Philippines is as of now old- formed for them.

        We realize that remote places or shall we say urban areas here in the Philippines are not utilizing innovation as a part of the schools (the administration ought to do activities about it). In any case, it is not very late to enhance in light of the fact that we have apparatuses to be utilized for powerful adapting as a part of provincial schools, and that is the - "conventional media". PC shops are pervasive around schools; however these are primarily utilized for playing web diversions. In this circumstance, the learners can utilize the best of PCs in the event that they will be situated well and be mindful of what really is the utilized of the PC, and to situate them to the pervasiveness of educational technology in the public eye and the learners' lives.

Application

       This theme can be connected in numerous parts of living. Innovation as what we know can be use in numerous viewpoints especially in the classroom administration, showing direction, representative, instructors, and understudies etc. If we know how to utilize it legitimately and to who can be utilize it, it can truly change our lives. Through the learning that was given by this point it can help us to be open to the cutting edge.