Name: Pitapit, Ivy Jean A.

BEED 3-B
Instructor: Mr. Junrie Bandolon Subject Code: TTL 314
LEARNING ACTIVITY 1.
1. In your own understanding what do you mean by Educational Technology?

● Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as Edu TECH, or

EdTech) is the combined used of computer hardware, software and
educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.
Educational technology creates, uses, and manages technological
processes and educational resources to help improve user
academic performance.

2. Describe today’s learners. Cite specific learning styles associated

with these kind of learners?

● Every modern learners is unique. Each modern come from a

different cultural and educational background. but there are
also common characteristics that they tend to share.
⮚ Easily distracted-they are thinking about any number of
things at one given time, making it easy to get distracted
when that are trying to complete an online course.
⮚ Social learners-they spend a good portion of their day at
the social media networks, catching up with friends and
reaching out to business contacts. In fact, in many
respects, social networking has taken the place of face to
face communication.
⮚ Crave constant knowledge- they simply hop on their mobile
or tablets and find out everything they need to know to
satisfy their curiosity.
⮚ Always on the go- make it easily digestible by offering
short bursts of information on a regular basis, such as
five minute modules that each covers a specific sub topic.
⮚ Independent- they are not afraid to set out on their own to
find the knowledge they need to achieved their goals, even
if that means devoting all of their free time to endeavor.
⮚ Impatient- they know that there are abundance of
information just waiting for them on the internet, so they
won’t waste their time with an online course that does not
cater to their needs.
⮚ Overworked- many carry out of wide variety of job
responsibilities, making it difficult to balance their home
life with their careers.

3. As a future 21st century educator, what would be your skills to

address the different learning styles of the learners?

● For me, for the 21st future educator we must have a skills like
critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication,
information literacy, media literacy, technology literacy,
flexibility, leadership, initiative, productivity and social
 skills. These skills are intended to help students keep up with
the lightning-pace of today’s modern markets. Each skill is
unique in how it helps students, but they all have one quality
in common.
I think most honest answer to this question is “it depends on
what the students want to do.” There are an immense range of
things which people can do in the modern economy and the skills
which seems relevant to almost all of them seem to me to be
rather limited and basic. Just about everyone needs to know how
to read and write in their native language at least. But noy
everyone has to be a particularly good or compelling writer.
As the economy and society grows more complex and specialized
the number of skills needed for all careers and lifestyle should
decline while the importance of specialized skills should
increase. So, don’t worry so much about the skills everyone
needs 9 you probably have them), worry about finding the type of
career/lifestyle that works best with you and what skills that
career needs.

4. Many college students are presently required to take computer courses

including word processing (Microsoft offices, spreadsheet presentation
(excel)presentation technique(power point, etc. how do you think this
will help application of skills needed in educational technology?

● It is indeed very important for the college students, especially

aspiring teachers, to take computer courses because having a
background about word processing, spreadsheet preparation and
presentation techniques will help application of skills needed
in educational technology, in such a way that it will be easier
already to hands on application of computer skills when it comes
to technology integration. We cannot deny that knowing such
things will fasten our work as a teacher in a future, because we
will be doing a lot of slide presentation foe our demonstration
as well as using excel to make computations of grades easier.
For the fact that educational technology focuses more on
mediated technology, that is why in order to perform well on
this course, the student must be equip with the basic skill that
are necessary for technology integration.

5. Interview 6 teachers regarding how technology used in the classroom.

Teaching 30 year ago (3) and the teaching of today (3).

● As a teacher for 30 years. I am not able to do of what 21st

teacher do today, I might say I am not able to compete with the
technology they used in calculating grade as what they said the
excel. Cause all I know is the traditional teaching and I don’t
know how to us those computers.

● I am a teacher in a elementary I am old enough in those school

but, I am happy that I was teaching the children using my
knowledge when I was young. study new things, But for now as the
 technology existed it was hard to me. To develop new things
because when I was young I go to school without gadgets but,
today I can’t imagine that even my students a 8 years old know
how to use a computer and cellphones.

● I’m not a believer in the idea that we should use technology for
its own sake. Any use of technology in the classroom should have
a clear purpose and that purpose should have a benefit beyond
more traditional ways of doing something. If, for example, you
intend for students to write an essay, what possible benefit is
there in doing it via a word processing application? If, like in
our country students needs to hand write their final exams, then
perhaps by preventing them from hand writing we are actually
doing student disservice. Of course theirs are lots of ways to
step up the traditional essay to make it a more effective
learning experience.

● As a teacher we are generally work hard to differentiate or

personalize the learning in their classroom, but It’s tricky
proposition at the best of time. However, I think the technology
today have a potential in our way. For example, there are plenty
of examples of software that will provide reading level
appropriate materials for student, or software that will deliver
adaptive questioning for students at their level.
● One of the goals of great learning environments should always be
the empowerment of student. This technology help them to pursue
their beautiful questions. Turning a worksheet into a google doc
is not empowering students unless the goal is to help them
become more facile with google docs.

● 21st century skills, nextgen skills, call them what you like but
we have to be focused on preparing students for the modern
world. Whenever possible we want to get students engaged with
technology that is closer to the cutting edge. Perhaps more
importantly we want to be sure we are facilitating in ways that
push students that cognitively travel the landscape of the
modern world.
Research all about educational technology-create a graphic
organizer from the beginning until now and annotate some
significant words in every discoveries.
 wooden paddles with printed lessons;
1650 typically with an alphabet and
( HORN BOOK) religious verse to help children learn
how to write.

1870 Printed images on glass frames are

projected on the walls in darkened
(Magic lantern) classrooms.

in use for over 100 years, the school

1890 slate helped students work (and
(School Slate and rework) problems. its larger cousin,
chalkboard) the chalkboard, is still used in
classroom today.

first mass produced in the late 19th

1900 century, pencils -and their partners
in crime -paper, soon replaced the
( pencil) school slate and gave a purpose to
having an eraser.

1905 first in the bloodline that went on to

produce the view master, stereoscopes
reinforced topics by showing kids
(Stereoscope) images in eye-popping 3-D

1925 Thomas Edison claimed that the film

projector would soon render books
(film obsolete in schools: 'scholars will
projector) soon be instructed through the eye.

1930 originally used for police I.D. work,

their expansion into schools created
(overhead an interactive classroom at a minimal
projector) cost.

now a go-to writing instrument with

millions manufactured and sold,
1940 everyday. it took over 50 years for
the ballpoint pen to gain popularity.
(ballpoint pen) perhaps its because they originally
cost $9.75 each.
 hand-cranked copies helped teachers
1940 spread homework to the entire class.
the downside? perpetually link stained
(mimeograph) fingers

headphones and the idea that lessons

1950 could be learned through repetitiion
gave rise to 'language labs'-a
(headpphones) practice that remains in use in
present day.

before the development of the pocket

calculator, the slide rule was the
1950 tool of choice for calculations. its
run was relatiively short: falling out
(slide rule) of favor by the mid -1970s. a dark day
for nerds everywhere.

1950 the use of film for classroom

instruction became obselete with the
(television) arrival of the television set.

1960 they dont want me to tell you this,

butthe person must directly
(liquid paper) responsible for the JFK assassination.

1970 the calculator was slow to be adopted

by teachers as they feared it would
(hand-held undermine time-tested basic skills
calculator) such as counting on fingers

the scantron made it simple to grade

multiple-choice exams, thereby saving
1972
teachers countless hours- it also gave
stumped students an excuse to draw
(scantron)
pixelated artwoork using the answer
boxes.

the computer introduced a way to teach

1980 students is about the realities of
19th century pioneer life courtesy of
(peersonal the oregon trail -one of the earliest
computer) educational video games adopted by
schools.

1999 a high-tech upgrade to the chalkboard,

 (interactive computer with the ability for students
whitebooard) to manipulate lessons digitally, in
real time.

the 21st century answer to the

2010
school slate: a culmionation of
its technolgy predecesssors,
combing touch, video and
(ipad)
calculations in one unit.

the pocket sized computers are

2012 promoting the teaching of basic
(raspberry pie) computer science in the
classroom.

the ARM based embedded system is

2015 used in computerbeducation to
(BBC micro bit) encourage pupils to get involved
in writing softwares.