reflection lesson 1
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Reflection lesson 8 (Higher Thinking Skills through IT-Based Projects)
Higher
Thinking Skills through IT-Based Projects
It
is the students themselves who demonstrate higher thinking skills and
creativity through such activities searching for information, organizing and
synthesizing ideas, creating presentation, and the like. There are IT-based
projects conducive to develop higher thinking skills and creativity among
learners are; Resource-based projects were the teacher steps out the
traditional role of being a content excerpt and information provider, it let
the students find their won facts and information or the teacher may supply the
data or information; simple creations; guided hyper-media projects and web
based projects.
From
the time that I’ve entered in college, I’ve noticed that there are some of my
instructors who let us think a lot during our class, examination and other
learning activities in order for us to formulate the answers. There are some of
my instructor let us search an information about a certain topic and on the
next meeting he/she let us stand in front and ask a lot of information about
what I’ve research and s/he will add some information that we haven’t say.
It
is good for the students that the teacher let them think deeper during the
class because it is the way that the students can develop their higher thinking
skills not only on one subject but in all of their subjects. It can also use in
a real life situation for instance; one of the family member doesn’t know how
to cook a pasta and in order for him/her to do the task he/she surf to the net
the procedure on how to cook and think or analyze what is being written on the monitor.
Higher
order thinking skill is one of the most important things that the student
should develop and the teacher is one of the instruments that would help them
to achieve those things. The first thing that the teacher can help them to
develop those thinking skills is to let the students surf through the net about
the certain topic and should answer the following questions and it would
require the students to analyze what they have search and also the questions.
Reflection lesson 7(IT Higher Thinking Skills and Creatvity)
IT
for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity
In
the traditional information absorption model of teaching, the teacher organizes
and presents information to student-learners. The teaching approach has been
proven successful for achieving learning outcomes following the lower end of
Bloom’s taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension and application are concerned. Today,
students are expected to be not only cognitive but also flexible, analytical
and creative. To define higher level thinking skills and creativity, we may
adopt a framework that is a helpful synthesis of many models and definition on
the subject matter.
As
what I have notice during our class, our teacher not only focused on one specific
skill of the student but all of our thinking skills and psychomotor skill was
being started to developed in just one session of our subject. For example, on
our TLE class our teacher show us a finished product of flower which is being
made from the corn husk and the student will analyzed on what was the first
step that they are going to do to imitate the flower that the teacher was being
presented.
To
let the students do and learn about a certain thing is a good start that they
can develop their independency in learning and to remove some load of the
teacher in teaching or spoon feeding the lesson to the students. It is also
helpful for the students to develop their thinking skills because the teacher
is not always on their side to guide them the on how to do a certain task that
the students should need to do.
What
we have learned or observed from our previous class can be apply in our future
classroom setting as future teachers, but we can’t apply it on the same way but
we need to furnish some part on the certain activity that should attract the
interest of the students.
Reflection lesson 6(IT Enters a New Learning Environment)
IT
Enters a New Learning Environment
It
is most helpful to see useful models of school learning that is ideal to
achieving instructional goals through preferred application of educational
technology. This models are meaningful learning, discover learning, generative
learning and constructivism. In meaningful learning process the learner is
encouraged to recognize relevant personal experiences while the discovery
learning let the students perform tasks
to uncover what is to be learned were new ideas and new decisions are generated
in the learning process. The effective teachers’ best interact with students in
innovative learning activities, while integrating technology to the
teaching-learning process.
One
of my teachers when I was still in high school let us identify what was the
pictures is all about that he was being presented to us, after that he let us
choose one picture among the pictures that he presented to us and do the hands
on activity. The activity is all about we are going to draw the picture in the
computer and it should be the same on the picture that we’ve choose and we are
going to put a label on the image that we draw.
It
is good when a teacher uses some technology in teaching the topic to the
students because it would help them to understand more about the topic for
instance the teacher presented the lesson through power point presentation and
the visual learners can understand more the lesson.
Reflection lesson 5(State-of-the-Art ET Application Practices)
State-of-the-Art
ET Application Practices
Looking
through progressive state policies that support technology-in-education and
other new developments in pedagogical practice, and the greater needs for the
educators today is to acquire not only in computer literacy but also in
competence. The contribution of computer to pedagogy makes up for “good
instruction.” Teacher must acquire or improve on their computer skills, as well
as their “computer-in-the-classroom” skill.
Our school invested the ted to the
new technology that can be used for a longer time and the teacher who would teach
us on our computer subject has a good background about computer. This teacher
has the capability to inspect and restore the problem of the computer during
the time that it malfunctions.
Teachers who are competent in terms
of computer is an effective one in teaching computer subject because he/she has
the capacity to answer all of the question/clarification of the students about
the computer and also their subject. The teacher will not only matter in
learning but also in investing technology hardware/software.
reflection lesson 3(Educational Technology in the Asia Pacific region)
Educational
Technology in the Asia Pacific Region
To provide confidence to educators
that they are taking the right steps in adopting technology in education, it is
good to know that during last few years, progressive countries in the Asia
Pacific region have formulated state policies and strategies to infuse
technology in schools. In five progressive state/city, namely New Zealand,
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong has different strategies for ICT
policies for their schools, like New Zealand they use the ICT to support their
curriculum; Australia focused on the IT initiative.
Without computer and internet
connection does not mean that you can’t attain what you want to be, for it is
not the hindrance in pursuing the goal of every individual. Students, who
belong to the unprogressive place like us, still learned how to use the
computer in doing the school requirements. During our IT21 class there are 3
students who would share to use the 1 computer and it does not have an internet
connection and it is full of virus, but still our teacher manage as well that
everyone of us can learn how to use the computer.
The students who belonged to the progressive
state/city are very lucky because they will not bother to go the internet café and
do the surfing for the school requirements, for their government is the one who
provided their needs. They are more advanced about the new information and it
is easy for them to do their study requirements because they can just simply
surf it in through the internet to gather more information.
In our present generation the presence
of the computer and internet connection is very important not only in school
but also in office or home. Even if the computer is not enough for the number
of the students the teacher should know how to manage them, so that all of the
students should be able to learn what is intended to be taught.
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