LESSON 3: ROLES OF

TECHNOLOGY FOR
TEACING AND LEARNING
Module 1
 ACCORDING TO STOIC (2015), EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY HAS THREE DOMAINS:
1.Technology as a tutor
Together with the teacher, technology can support the teacher to
teach another person or technology when programmed by the teacher
can be on its own.
2. Technology as a teaching tool
Like a tutor, technology is a teaching tool, but can never replace a
teacher. This is like a handyman, which is just there to be reached.

3. Technology as a learning tool

As a learning tool, it makes learning easy and effective. It can produce
learning outcomes that call for technology-assisted teaching.
 A. FOR A TEACHER AND TEACHING

 Technology provides enormous support to the teacher as the

facilitator of learning
 Technology has modernized the teaching-learning environment
 Technology improves teaching-learning process and ways of
teaching
Technology opens new fields in educational researches
Technology adds to the competence of teachers and
inculcates scientific outlook
Technology supports teacher professional development
 B. FOR LEARNERS AND LEARNING
1. Support learners to learn how to learn on their own
 Declarative knowledge
consist of the discrete pieces of information that answers
the question what, who, when, and where.
 Structural knowledge
consists of facts or pieces of declarative knowledge put
together to attain some form of meaning

Procedural knowledge
knowledge in action or the knowledge of how to do
something
2. TECHNOLOGY ENHANCES LEARNERS’
COMMUNICATION THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION

transmittal of information from one person to another as single

individual or groups of individuals

Three basic communication pattern:

 Point to point two-way or one-to-one
 One-to-many outbound
 Many-to-many
Social interaction through communication occurs :
Through technology
Around technology
With support of technology

For this particular role, what are the benefits derived from
technology-supported communication?
 3. TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES LEARNERS’
HIGHER-ORDER-THINKING SKILLS: CRITICAL
THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND
CREATIVITY
 Critical thinking
Part of the cluster of higher order thinking skills. The ability to
interpret, explain, analyze, evaluate, infer and self-regulate in order to
make good decisions.
 HERE ARE SOME WAYS THAT TEACHERS CAN DO
TO DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING
A. Ask the right questions
B. Use critical thinking tasks with appropriate level of challenge
Some simple ways that a teacher should do.
1. Vary the question asked
2. Introduce new technologies
3. Modify the learners’ grouping
4. Modify the critical thinking task
5. Encourage curiosity
 CREATIVITY
Characterized as involving the ability to think flexibly, fluently,
originally, and elaborately.

o Flexibly - able to use many points of view

o Fluently - able to generate may ideas
o Originally - implies being able to generate new ideas
o Elaborately - able to add details
 SEVEN CREATIVE STRATEGIES
1. Substitute – find something else to replace to do what it does
2. Combine – blend two things that do not usually go together
3. Adapt – look for other ways this can be used
4. Modify/Magnify/Minify – make a change, enlarge, decrease
5. Put to another use – find other uses
6. Eliminate – reduce, remove
7. Reverse – turn upside-down, inside out, front-side back
“All together as SCAMPER”
 WAYS TO SUPPORT STUDENT CREATIVITY
1. Provide an enriched environment
2. Teach creative thinking strategies
3. Allow learners to show what they can do
4. Use creativity with technology
 SUGGESTIONS TO DEVELOP AND ENHANCE
CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND
CREATIVITY
1. Encourage students to find and use information from variety
of sources both on-line and off-line
2. Assist students to compare information from different
sources
3. Allow students to reflect through different delivery modes
like writing, speaking, or drawing
4. Use real experiences and material to draw tentative decisions
5. Involve students in creating and questioning assessment
 SEVERAL CRITICAL THINKING TOOLS AND
TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE THAT CAN SUPPORT
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
1. Encourage digital production projects
2. Popularizes e-learning modalities
3. Enhances global awareness and citizenship