Lesson 5: Preference of the Technology Generation

Text vs. Visual

     The technology or digital generation has greater affinity to visual compared with texts.

Linear vs. Hypermedia

     The new generation follows a personal random access to hyperlinked digital information.

Independent vs. Social learner

     New generation are already acquainted with digital tools that adopt lie both personal and participated work.

Learning to do vs. Learning to pass the test

     The digital learners simply wish to acquire skills, knowledge and habits.

Delayed rewards and instant qualifications

     The digital learners experience more gratification through immediate scores from games, enjoyable conservation from webcam calls, excitement form email and inviling comments from their facebook friends.

Rote Memory vs. Fun Learning

     Digital learning prefer fun learning

Lesson 4: Bridging the Generation Gap

Generation X - birth years ranging from the early to mid-1960’s and ending birth years ranging from the late 1970’s to early 1980’s.

Generation Y - also known as Millennial. 1980’s as starting birth years and ending birth year ranging from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s.

Generation Z - birth years ranging from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. Widespread usage of the Internet from a young.

Older Generation Vs. Younger Generation

• Manner of dressing
• Socializing
• Friendship
• Marrying

Difficult to Overcome

• Caste system in India
• Pre-arranged marriage in China
• Female circumcision in Africa

In the field of Education

• Developed countries vs. third world countries
• Traditional vs. modern
•  Public vs. private

Future Shock is a book written by the student futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. In the book, Toffler defines the term “Future Shock” as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of “too much change in too short a period of time”.

To Bridge the Digital Gap

1. The need to understand the potentials of ICT
2. Technology supported skills need to be taught in school
3. If the school fails to respond to emergent changes and needs
4. The new learners may lose appreciation of the  educational system
5. The increase of drop-out rate every year

Lesson 3: Understanding Technology Learners

Twitter - online news and social networking site

Youtube - Video sharing website

Facebook - social networking site

LinkedIn - business and employment oriented social networking site

Instagram - Online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking site

Pinterest - content sharing site

Flickr - Image hosting and video hosting site

Share - share a resources is to make joint use of it

Feed - Provide video chat with frequently updated content

Skype - provide video chat and voice call services

Technology/Digital Learners

• spend much time talking with friends on their cellphones
• send text messages
• interact through social media
• play video games
• surf the world wide web

Jean Piaget’s Traditional Learning Chart

First two years - Susceptible minds
Six years - Acquiring communication skills
Teenage years - Transition concrete thinking
Adult years - Abstract thinking and reasoning

Multi-tasking

• performing task simultaneously
• watching video
• chatting online
• downloading pictures and music
• surfing the web

Research shows that multi-tasking can be detrimental this parents concentration and the completion of specific task.

Lesson 2: Overview of Educational Technology 2

Educational Technology 2

     Concerned with “Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning”.

For Learners - to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend knowledge and skills so that they can be become exemplary users of educational technology.

For student teachers and professional teacher - to update their knowledge of educational technology.

Educational Technology 2

• Involved a deeper understanding of the computer as well as hands on application of computer skills.
• Aims to infuse technology in the student-teachers training, helping them to adopt and meet rapid and continuing technological changes, particularly in the Global ICT environment.
• Used information technology to improve not only instruction but the school management program and curriculum.

Learning Objectives of Educational Technology 2

1. To provide educational in the use of technology in instruction.
2. To impart learning experiences in instructional technology supported instructional planning.
3. To acquaint students on IT related learning theories with the computer as a tutor.
4. To learn to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources.
5. To engage learners on practical technology integration issues.
6. To inculcate higher-level thinking and creativity among students while providing them knowledge of IT-related learning theories.

Lesson 1: Review of Educational Technology 1

 

Educational Technology 

      The application of technology in the educative process that takes place in the educational institutions

Four Phases of Application of Technology

• setting of learning objectives
• designing specific learning experience
• evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experience
• revising teaching-learning process for improving future instructional activities

Three Domains of Learning

Cognitive - head

Affective - heart

Psychomotor - hand

Technology in education 

     Is the application of technology in the operation of educational institution

Instructional technology

     Refers to the aspects of educational technology that are concerned with instructions

Technology integration

     Is using learning technologies to introduce, supplement, and extend skills.

Roles of Technology in Learning

1. Technology as tools to support knowledge construction
2. Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge
3. Technology as context to support earning-by-doing
4. Technology as a social medium to support learning-by-conversing
5. Technology as an intellectual partner to support earning-by-reflecting

Learning Objectives of Educational Technology 1

1. To orient the learner of educational technology in society
2. To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media for teaching-learning process
3. To uplift the learner to human learning through the use of learning technology
4. To impart skills in planning, designing, using, and evaluating the technology-enriched teaching-learning process
5. To acquaint learners on basic aspects of community education
6. To introduce the learner to what it recognize as the third revolution in education, the computer.