Activity on Online Resources, Educational Sites and Portals

Name: Nathaniel P. Damayo Course & Year: BSED Science 2 Date: 11/18/21

A. Answer the following questions (20 points)

1. What is the right mindset of a teacher in using digital tools?
Answer: The right mindset of a teacher in using digital tools should be that the teacher must
only see digital tools as an assistant for his/her teaching process and not as a replacement for
him/her as a teacher. This mindset is very important because it sets limitations to the educators
on how much should they be using technology in the process of teaching, in this way the teacher
can boost-up his/her pedagogy with the assistant of the modern digital tools that we have been
using today without omitting his/her performance in teaching back before when he/she is not
using digital tools. In addition, a teacher is very known for his/her accountability in what he/she
teaches to his/her students and that’s why digital tools cannot replace a human teacher because
only a person can deliver teaching with affection and passion and no mere technology can
replace this.
2. Why should modern teachers need not necessarily be experts in technology but should
rather be experts of the habits of the mind?
Answer: Modern teachers don’t necessarily need to be an expert when it comes to technology
but they are in great need in mastering the habits of the mind because modern teachers will
eventually face changes in their teaching and their students, and this means encountering
conflicts in their fields. We should know that technology can’t help every conflicts and difficulty
a teacher can experience but having an expertise of how you intelligently manage these problems
with the use of good attitude and rich experience or in short, having the habits of the mind can
greatly propel a teacher in solving his/her modern conflicts.
B. Essay.

“The profile of a modern teacher”

Like a vine that continuously grow and roam free, teachers have also evolved into
someone that is fully capable in facing new changes brought by the modern world. A modern
teacher varies in characteristics and all of it is something to be adored and be taken as an
example. Modern teachers transformed themselves to be as great as our parents who wanted
nothing else but to meet our demand and that is to help us young’s in achieving our dreams and
aspirations. They are the map that guides us towards our destinations. The characteristics that
make the modern teacher shines at their brightest is their priorities in learning, flexibility, and
unique teaching strategy.
 Modern teachers do not just aim solely in teaching but they also yearn to learn for
themselves. They want new knowledge that can be brought and be applied in school as well as
for their learners. Modern teachers don’t stop studying, instead they learn with their students.
They observe and make their mistakes right and ultimately focusing on the further development
of their selves as a good educator.
Flexibility is one of the characteristics of a modern teacher that is very noticeable.
Modern teachers adapt to the current situations, no matter how hard it is for them they still cope-
up and manage to deliver the same quality teaching to their students. Flexibility of the modern
teachers makes their teaching uninterrupted and fluid, they keep on finding and making ways to
teach even in difficult times.
The unique teaching strategies of the modern teachers greatly helps in maintaining the
enthusiasm of the students in school. This keeps the students motivated to go on and keep
learning. These unique teaching strategies with the help of technologies makes the classroom
lively and interactive thus, creating a community within a classroom that are into learning.
Overall, the variety of characteristics, behaviors, and practices of modern teachers are
purely destined to improve through time. With the aid of digital tools in teaching they can
improve further. Modern teachers never gets tired in supplying students with knowledge even in
difficult times and along with it they learn besides their students, continuously developing and
transforming themselves to become the greatest educators in our era.