State of the art et application practices
- 2. INTRODUCTION Educators have become more aware and active in adopting state-of-the-art educational technology practices they can possibly adopt today.
- 3. One can see a greater need for teachers to acquire not only computer literacy but competence as well.
- 4. The following trends should also be recognized by educators:
- 5. Present day students have become computer literate. Teachers have deemphasized rote learning, they spent more time in methods.
- 6. Shifting focus from lower level traditional learning to Higher level such as creative and critical thinking skills. Recent teaching- learning paved the way for instructional approaches, students rely less on teachers as information-givers. They acquire information, build their own knowledge and solve problems.
- 7. These trends and new levels of learning require the appropriate use of state-of-the-art instruction and the use of IT, tapping the computer’s information and communication tools (such as word processors, databases, spreadsheets, presentation software, e-mail, Internet conferencing, etc.)
- 9. OBSTACLES TO IT (DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PERSPECTIVE) Use of computer is time consuming and expensive Danger of technology-centered classrooms to replace teachers
- 10. Virtue is in moderation and so, there is truly a need for teachers to balance their time to the preparation and application of instructional tools. Through wise technical advice, schools can also acquire the most appropriate computer hardware and software. At the same time, training should ensure that the use of ET is fitted to learning objectives.
- 11. In addition, teachers should acquire computer skills for so that they can serve as models in integrating educational technology in the teaching-learning process.
- 12. SYSTEMATIC INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING PROCESS Identify instruction goals Analyze learners Identify objectives Plan instructional activities Choose ET media Implement instruction Make assessment on learning outcomes and effectiveness of EF application Recycle instruction
- 13. Following modern trends in technology related education, schools should now foster a students are given leeway to use computer information sources in their assignments, reports and presentation in written, visual, or dramatic forms.
- 14. All these suggestions show that teachers and schools can no longer avoid the integration of educational technology in instruction.
- 15. Especially in the coming years, when portable and mobile computing will make computing activities easier to perform, the approaches to classroom pedagogy must change
- 16. And with continuing changes in high-speed communication, mass storage of data, including the revolutionary changes among school libraries, educators should be open for more drastic educational changes in the years ahead.