Topic: Importance of educational technology

Chapter 3
Subject: EDU 107
Reported by:Datudacula, Sittie Anna-Arbaya A.
H.Ahmad Anisah M.

Benefits of technology in education

 Instructional Effectiveness
One benefit of multimedia in structural can be an increase in student achievement.
Students appear to be much. Interested when more sense are involve in lesson presentation and
activities
 Active learning
Interactive technology stimulating environments that encourage student
involvement in the learning process. Student enjoy playing games, solving problems, and
working with computer lessons, modules, and practice exercise.
 Critical thinking
The structure and use of technology can promote higher-level thinking skill. The
learner-participants are assisted to remember, understand, apply synthesize, evaluate and create.
Technology can design exercise to enrich their thinking skills, making decisions, and testing
credibility of such decision through reflective and reasonable thinking.
 Cooperative learning
Well-structured cooperative activates can foster the development of leadership
abilities, teamwork, and improved self-stem. These condition will
 Communication skills
Communication skills can be enhanced by using technology in small group and by
integration telecommunication into the curriculum. Exposure to corrected pronunciation, diction,
and enunciation will encourage the students to emulate what they hear. Exposure to good and
correct grammar will enable then to use the speaking and proper communication.
 Multisensory Delivery
 technology supplies information through multiple sensory channel, allowing the
students with various learning styles to assimilate and apply knowledge as the experts say, the
more sense are involved the better and assimilation of knowledge and learning.
 Multicultural education
Telecommunications make it possible to expand classroom ‘’walls’’ and link
students and teacher in national and international exchanges.

Important of technology in schools

researcher gave account of why technology is important in school. Studies have shown
the following results.
▪ Children conversant with technology show improvements in their writing, reading and
math skills.
▪ Technology has also contributed to the decrease in dropout rates, improvements in
student attendance and enhancement in their learning abilities.
▪ Technology in school benefits the children during their higher education. It lays a strong
foundation of the successful professional life of an individual.
▪ Computers can offer livelier explanation of various subjects. The internet is an ocean of
information, which can be harnessed for the rendition of information in school.
▪ The inclusion of technology in the process of learning makes learning an enjoyable
activity, thus inviting greater interest from the kids.
▪ The knowledge from all around the world can be better brought about for the children
and can be better assimilated by them.
▪ The administration processes, the official procedures of school can be simplified by
means of technology school records, the information about all the students and the
teacher and also other school employment can efficiency be maintained by means of the
advance technology.

Importance of educational technology in learning

1. Technology provides important tools to support knowledge construction for presenting

learners ideas, understanding and beliefs and for producing organized, multimedia
knowledge bases for learners. Manuals and workbooks are important materials in adding
knowledge to the existing information of the transparencies, slides, poster, diorama and
storyboard.
 2. Technology serves as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-
by-construction.
3. Technology is important when used for comparing perspective, beliefs and world views.

Technology as context is important to support learning by doing as:

1. Representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems. Situations and context.

Technology provides varied materials that cater to the different senses that are simulated
by the activities and technology used better understanding the lesson.
2. Representing beliefs, perspective, arguments, and stories of others. Technology in the
form of documentation and picture taking can show some religious beliefs like the
conduct of baptism, wedding fiestas, and processions.
3. Defining safe, controllable problem space for student thinking.

Technology as a social medium is important to support learning by conversing through:

1. Collaborating with others.

2. Discussing, arguing, and building consensus among member of the community.
3. Supporting discourse among knowledge building communities.

Technology as an intellectual partner through

1. Helping learners to articulate and represent what they know reflecting on what they have
learned and how they come to know it.
2. Supporting learner’s internal negotiations and meaning making.
3. Constructing personal representation of meaning for supporting mindful thinking.