Friday, January 25, 2019

1st Blog: The Most Important Role of Teachers in Integrating Technology into the Lesson Plan

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It’s been a while since I published my very last blog. This is our first ever task for our subject, Educational Technology II. We are asked to write about the topic “Important role of a teacher in integrating technology into lesson plan. So, sit back, relax and start to read my blog. I hope that you will get something from me after you read my work. Here we go.
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Technology alone does not improve education. Great technology with entertaining content does not improves education. Expensive gadgets and pricey projectors also don’t give a count. But a knowledgeable teacher who can maximize the use of what is the only available technology surrounds her will do.
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In the present time, the technology is so advanced that it made the source of information so much available everywhere. Google is just one click away. Students can now swim into the pool of information online and share their acquired information in the class. The major role of the teachers in the present time is to be a facilitator who will guide the students from which information should they keep, or should they throw away.
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Integrating of technology in the lesson plan is very challenging especially when you are a traditional type of teacher who’s afraid to try and explore new things. But greater things happen as the years go by. New inventions are made every now and then and different styles and techniques are discovered. For you to become a great person, you must adapt to the changes and learn from it. Going back to what I have said before, it is a huge challenge to integrate the technology into a lesson plan because you must include this into your system forever. You must know the trends and interests of your students for you to speak the same language to them. You must also know how to choose the right combination of what application you will use considering the topic that they must learn.
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The important role of a teacher is to be a wise facilitator and who is always ready for a change, who is eager to study every trends and new discoveries, and someone who is always open to share her learning and experiences to her class.

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

10th Meeting: Teaching with Technology

On our tenth meeting, last meeting for this term, Ms Olivar discussed the Guiding Principles for Teaching with Technology.

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1. Focus on pedagogy, not on technology.
2. Set expectation clearly.
3. Choose high quality over high tech.
4. More technology requires more organization.
5. Accommodate before you innovate.
6. Appeal to multiple styles of learning.
7. Don’t make technology make you mechanical.
8. Use technology to teach, not entertain.
9. To legitimize, you need to personalize.
10. Prepare for technology to fail.

9th Meeting: Game Show

On our 9th meeting, we conducted a game show.
Each group, consisted of six individual, facilitated different assigned educational games.
Our group conducted an EARTH QUIZ, where you must prove that you really are from planet earth (lol).

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Everyone enjoyed all the games that each group conducted, especially those group who has prizes.

8th Meeting: Unit Test

On our 8th meeting, Sir Jhace  is our proctor the Unit Test.
The unit test is composed of our lesson from the History of Technology in Education up to some keys or short cuts in Excel App.

7th Meeting: English Tutorial

On our 7th meeting, Ms Olivar gave us task to perform the week after the unit test.
She assigned us to make an educational game that is about a certain subject.
She also let us to play a game via Excel App and taught us English vocabulary and prepositions.

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6th Meeting: Media Text Analysis

On our sixth meeting, Ms Olivar taught us the Media text analysis.
At first, I don't have any idea that we can find text in a picture.
But my perception changed when Ms Olivar discussed the whole topic.

5th Meeting: TUP-T Ted Talk

On our fifth meeting, we presented our Ted Talk where each group, composed of two-three individual, present a talk for an assigned educational application.
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Our group presented Five Video tools or Video editing apps.
1. HYPERLAPSE
2. PREMIERE PRO CC
3. FACEBOOK LIVE
4. MAGISTO
5. FILMORA

We conducted a demo on how to use the Filmora app.