The Essence Of Technology
- 1. The Essence of TechnologyTechnology, the legacy of upcoming features of machines and gadgets made by man to perform such thing in a more ideal and faster way. The rise of the latest gadgets and gizmos made people’s chores more easier and none-stressful. The technology are reaching higher goals to produce more efficient and useful products to satisfy people’s needs. Products like robots, computers, machines, gadgets and even armory are being develop by such scientist and makers of different technologies. They produced and sell several useful products for people’s satisfaction. It also helps people to learn how to save their energy by using easy ways on living with their acquiring technology. The essence of technology made people live peacefully and happy due to less effort and less work because of modern technology made by man.We have been involved in the use of technology in education since 1984. In 1989 Eric Mazur published \" The Essence of Physics\" , an interactive software package that provides an interactive tutorial summary of a one-year introductory physics course. The package includes interactively solved problems and interactive problems. While the The Essence of Physics won the AIPs first Annual Computers in Physics contest, the program did not incorporate any findings from Physics Education Research. In a sense, the foundation for the program was the standard approach to teaching, all of its flaws included!Since 1990 we have been involved in using technology to help change education. First we developed Project Galileo, a portal to educational innovations, such as Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time-Teaching. We also helped pioneer classroom networks to help instructors poll students in Peer Instruction lectures. Currently we are working on various web-based approaches to help instructors worldwide to implement innovative teaching methods. For example, the Interactive Learning Toolkit (ILT) is a fully developed learning management system that allows the instructor to develop courses and monitor the students progress.In collaboration with other innovators in education we are working on integrating the ILT with a fully interactive classroom system that can use a broad variety of devices, from infrared 'clickers', to cellular phones, to wireless PDAs and laptops. The goal is to combine a server-based course and content management system with a laptop-based interactive classroom.Our efforts are aimed at using technology to enable new modes of learning -- to make possible what hitherto was not. For example, we have developed ways to facilitate communication between instructor and students and between students both inside and outside the classroom. The goal is to provide a structure that is conducive to learning and helps both instructors and student focus attention and the areas that require most attention.However, the two most important technologies, which today you may not even think of as technologies, are specialization and division of labor. The essence of the industrial revolution was to split the production process into its component parts and have different people or machines specialize in doing each of them as cost-effectively as possible. The result is economies of scale.This is the essence of technology and this is the essence of technology in higher education. Can we bring the same principles of specialization and division of labour to bear on university teaching? Can we achieve economies of scale? The industrial revolution was highly competitive. Many individuals and companies seized on these simple principles to produce new goods and services and to produce goods and services in new ways. There was an effervescence of innovation. The effect was to break out of the iron triangle and make goods and services more accessible, less costly and of higher quality. The possibilities of technology will create a similar effervescence of innovation in higher education. Indeed, it is already beginning. The profiles of higher education providers are already changing.Two developments - and a third that brings the two together - are particularly important. First there is the growth of private, for-profit providers. Second there is the growth of distance education. The combination that brings the two together is cross-border higher education.Prepared by:Fernando AlvisMa. Kristine BadillaAlexis AbañaRodalyn De LeonJudith Ann Ventocilla