TECHNOLOGY FOR BEED 2nd Year A

TEACHING AND Instructor: Ms. Celeste A. De Vera,

LEARNING 1 LPT
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Learning environment refers to the diverse physical locations, contexts, and cultures
in which students learn. Since students may learn in a wide variety of settings, such as
outside-of-school locations and outdoor environments, the term is often used as a
more accurate or preferred alternative to classroom, which has more limited and
traditional connotations—a room with rows of desks and a chalkboard, for example.
The term also encompasses the culture of a school or class—its presiding ethos and
characteristics, including how individuals interact with and treat one another—as well
as the ways in which teachers may organize an educational setting to facilitate
learning—e.g., by conducting classes in relevant natural ecosystems, grouping desks in
specific ways, decorating the walls with learning materials, or utilizing audio, visual,
and digital technologies. And because the qualities and characteristics of a learning
environment are determined by a wide variety of factors, school policies, governance
structures, and other features may also be considered elements of a “learning
environment.”
COMPONENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

 Learners' characteristics;
 Learning and teaching goals;
 Activities that support learning;
 Assessment strategies that drive and measure
learning;
 A culture that directly infuses a learning
environment.
CULTURE AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Culture is a critical component of any learning environment. It is important

to be aware of the influence of culture within any particular learning
context, and to try and shape that culture as much as possible towards
supporting the kind of learning environment that you believe will be most
effective. However, changing a pre-existing, dominant culture is very
difficult. Nevertheless, new technologies enable new learning environments
to be developed, and thus provide an opportunity to develop the kind of
culture within that learning environment that will best serve your learners.
However, in every learning environment there will be cultural elements
that prevail through all components, which is why I have added culture as a
background to all the components of a learning environment in the graphic
below.
FLEXIBLE LEARNING
Fundamental Concepts on Instructional Delivery
Before delving into flexible learning as a feature of instructional
delivery, let us first understand the fundamental concepts of how we
deliver instruction in the context of space and time. In its elementary
sense, instructional delivery is the mode on how teaching and learning
take place.
Generally, there are three major ways on how we can deliver
instruction nowadays. These three ways have become so tactile that
subforms have been devised and accepted. We try to study the figure
below to see the three overarching types of instructional delivery
systems.
INCREASING FLEXIBILITY USING TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Educational technology has been considered as another common ground

of all categories of instructional delivery. Therefore, it means that technology
is not only applicable to online distance learning. What matters most in the
use of technology is that learners can have access to all required technology
to be used in instruction. For instance, before choosing the use mobile-
aidedd technology in a distance or remote learning mode, the teacher should
ensure that learners possess such a technological device, should be
knowledgeable in manipulating the environment of that technology. You see,
aiding instructional delivery with technology is still putting the learners at the
core. This ensures increasing flexibility in using technology in education.
 BLENDED LEARNING

Technology has undoubtedly revolutionized the way instruction is delivered.

Learning space and time have been redefined because of technology. One offshoot of
how technology is linked to instructional delivery is blended learning (BL). Kintu, Zhu,
Kagambe (2017) positioned blended learning under web-based instruction. The
majority of education scholars are in unison that BL is the merging of face-to-face
instruction and computer-mediated learning environments. Part of the continuum in
defining BL is the thought that it is a set of combining strategies and approaches in
delivering instruction through the aid of any web-based instructional resource. This
means that BL may be a combination of two or more sub-modes of instructional
delivery; however, technology as a potent aid is never deleted in the scene.
It should be clear that the plain use of technology in providing information to
your learners through the aid of technological tools does not necessarily spell out
blended learning.
Garison and Vaughan (2008) echoed some
features of blended learning instructional
delivery.
1.It considers the power of online and offline
modes of learning.
2.It ensures teacher support and engagement.
3.It promotes independent learning.
4.It supports peer interaction
 ROTATION
MODEL    
                   
        
FLEX MODEL
A LA CARTE MODEL
•Enriched Virtual
Model
         
Critical Learning Spaces and Tools for Blended Learning

Critical Learning Space Traditional Classroom Digital Classroom

Information On the Board Website/Blog/Homepage of LMS

Discussion Whole group and small group Asynchronous discussion

real-time conversations

Collaboration Small group work at desk Collaboration tools

Creation Limited to tools and supplies in Limited online applications,

the classroom Chrome extensions and web tools
to create: presentation,
artwork,infographs and websites.