TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING I

(An Introduction; Teaching and Learning with Technology)

1. Identified roles of technology in teaching and learning.

LESSON 3: ROLES OF TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING AND

Let’s Get Started

Are you students of today interested to use technology in order to learn? _______________________________________________
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Do teachers have the skills to use technology to enhance their teaching? _______________________________________________
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With the 4th Industrial Revolution, nobody can deny the influence of technology in our lives. As
future teachers of the 21st century, it is hight time that you prepare yourselves to integrate
technology in your classrooms. Using technology is a tool and a catalyst for change.

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As teaching and learning go together, let us explore more about the roles of technology for teachers and teaching and for the learners
and learning. According to Stosic (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 a tutor on its own. The teacher will simply switch on or switch off the radio programs, television programs or play
DVDs, or CDs that contain educational programs. There are online tutorial educational programs too.
2. Technology as a teaching tool
-like tutor, technology as a teaching tool, but can never replace a teacher. This is like a handy man, which is just there to be
reached. Like any other tool, it is being used to facilitate and lighten the work of the teacher. It will be good if the teacher can also
create or develop technology tools that are needed in the classroom.
3. Technology as a learning tool
-while the teacher utilizes technology as the tool for teaching, likewise it is an effective tool for learning. As a learning tool, it
makes learning easy and effective. It can produce learning outcomes that call for technology-assisted teaching. Even the teachers who
are teaching can utilize similar tools for learning. As a learning tool, it is very interesting that even the elderly use these tools for
learning for life.
A. For teachers and teaching
There are numerous roles of technology plays in the job of teachers. As a tool, technology has opened wider avenues in
management of resources and management of learning. Likewise, it has modernized the teaching-learning environment in schools.
Here are some examples of the myriad roles that technology can do for teachers and teaching.
1. Technology provides enormous support to the teachers as a facilitator of learning.
-it transforms a passive classrooms to an active and interactive one, with audio-visual aids, charts and models, smart
classrooms, e-learning classrooms which motivate and increase attention level of learners.
2. Technology has modernized the teaching-learning environment
-the teachers are assisted and supplemented with appropriately structured instructional materials for daily activities. There are
varied available technology-driven resources which can be utilized for remedial lesson or activities.
3. Technology improves teaching-learning process and ways of teaching
-this will make the act of teaching more efficient and effective. There are arrays of teaching methods and strategies that can
use technology which are found compatible with learning styles. The multiple intelligence theory of Howard Gardner tells us that there
is a genius in every child. This implies that there must be varied ways of teaching as there are many varied ways of learning. All
learning styles can find support from technology to make teaching will be more effective and efficient.
4. Technology open new fields in educational researches
-the areas of teaching testing and evaluation are enhanced by technologies for teaching and learning. Current educational
researches will no longer find difficulty in interpreting tests, assessment and other evaluation results. There are available programs that
can analyze and interpret results with speed and accuracy. Reference retrieval is also hastened because many of the research
materials are in digital forms.
5. Technology adds to the competence of teachers and inculcates scientific outlook
-through the utilization of theories of learning and intelligence, which are explained in references uploaded in the net, the
teachers are encouraged to imbibe skills to source these information with speed and accuracy.
6. Technology supports teacher professional development
-with the demand of continuing professional development for teachers, the availability of technology provides alternative way
of attending professional development online. For those who are involved as provides of continuing professional development like
trainers, facilitator or organizers, they can level up or enhance their delivery systems with the support of technology tools.
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B. For Learners and Learning
1. Support learners to learn how on their own
-all teachers fully understand that subject matter or content is a means to achieve the learning outcomes. There are three
categories of knowledge according to Egbert (2009): declarative knowledge, structural knowledge, and procedural knowledge.
a. Declarative Knowledge
-consist of the discrete pieces of information that answers the questions what, who, when, and where. It is often learned
through memorization of facts, drills and practice. It can be learned by simple mnemonics or conceptual maps. Declarative knowledge
is the fundamental knowledge necessary for students to achieve more complex higher order thinking such as critical thinking and
creativity, inquiry and production.
b. Structural knowledge
-consists of facts or pieces of declarative knowledge put together to attain some form of meaning. An example of declarative
knowledge is “pencil’. The idea that evolved from a pencil is an understanding that: “it is something used to write.” This is referred to as
structural knowledge. It can be presented by concept maps, categorization or classification.
c. Procedural knowledge
-is knowledge in action or the knowledge of how to do something. It is based on facts but learned through the process of
procedural knowledge. Examples include how to drive a car, how to use a cellphone, or how to speak English. Procedural knowledge is
indicated by a performance task or graphical representation of a concept.
The traditional sources of knowledge are printed books, modules and journals. Other sources are primary sources such as
information taken from research. However, knowledge or content can be learned in many ways.
2. Technology enhances learners’ communication skills through social interactions
-this is commonly described as the transmittal of information from one person to another as single individual or groups of
individual.
According to Shirly (2003) in Egbert (2009), there are three basic communication patterns:
a. point to point two way or one to one like Internet chat, phone conversations or even face to face conversations.
b. one to many outbound like a lecture, or television. There is no social interactions.
c. many to many like group discussion, buzz session, heads together.
This kind of interaction provides opportunities for social interaction.
Social interactions occurs in two ways where the participants ask for clarification, argue, challenge each other work towards
common understanding. Social interaction through communication occurs through technology (directly between two persons via email,
a cell phone or other communication technology). It can also occur around technology like students discussing about a problem posed
by a software program or with support printed from a website. In all three modalities, communication occurs and technology is involved.

3. Technology upgrades learners’ higher order thinking skills: critical thinking, problem solving creativity
-twenty first century learning requires the development of higher order thinking skills.
Technology has a great role to play and enhancement of these skills.
Critical thinking – is a part of the cluster of higher order thinking skills. It refers to the ability to interpret, explain, analyze, evaluate,
infer and self-regulate in order to make good decisions. With the use of technology, one will be able to evaluate the credibility of the
source, ask appropriate questions, become open-minded, defend a position on an issue and draw conclusion with caution. All of these
competencies are covered by Bloom’s Taxonomy of Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation.
Teachers play a significant role in supporting learners with technology. How?
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As a role model, teachers should display and practice critical thinking processes, so that the learners can imitate them. Here are some
ways that teachers can develop critical thinking.
a. Ask the right question
b. Use critical thinking tasks with appropriate level of challenge
Creativity – is characterized as involving the ability to think flexibly, fluently, originally, and elaborately (Guildford, 1986 & Torrance,
1974 in Egbert, 2009). Flexibly means able to use many points of view while fluently means able to generate many ideas. Originally
implies being able to generate new ideas and elaborately means able to add details. Creativity is not merely a set of technical skills, but
is also involves feelings, beliefs, knowledge and motivation.
Seven Creative Strategies (Osborn, 1963). These have been simplified into fewer categories. To be creative, one can use any of
these strategies.
1. Substitute – find something else to replace to do what it does.
2. Combine – bend 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, and 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, the strategies will be labeled SCAMPER.
What should teacher do to support student creativity? Here are some suggestions:
1. Provide an enriched environment.
2. Teach creative thinking strategies
3. Allow learners to show what they can do.
4. Use creativity with technology.

How was the lesson so far? Did you grasp or learn something? If Yes,
then you may now proceed to the next part.

Elaborate- Uncover

Experience as a Learner

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Write a paragraph about your personal experience on how technology has influenced your life as a learner from elementary,
high school and college.

Before you proceed to your assessment, share your report for the task
given.
Goodluck! You can do it!
HOW TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCED MY LIFE AS A LEARNER?

HOW WILL I USE TECHNOLOGY WHEN I BECOME A TEACHER?

Evaluate – Let’s Apply

A. Direction: Reflect on the question: How does the role of technology change the teaching-learning environment? Reflect?
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B. Direction: Choose the correct answer from the option given.
1. Which statement about technology in teaching and learning is FALSE?
a. technology has modernized teaching and learning.

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b. use of technology promotes higher order thinking.
c. millennial teachers are not ready to use of technology in teaching.
d. to teach in the 21st century, technology use is indispensable.
2. How did technology open new fields of educational research?
I. Enabled researchers to process data faster and more accurate
II. Created research tools with rigor to collect data
III. Provided different ways of collecting information for evaluation
a. I only b. II only c. III only d. I, II, and III
3. What value does the use of technology give teacher?
I. provides support for teachers as facilitator of learning
II. Transforms passive classroom to interactive classrooms
III. Enhances learners communication skills
a. I only b. II only c. III only d. I, II, and III
4. How can learners benefit most in the use of technology?
I. Enhances global awareness and citizenship
II. Enables the students to participate in the online gaming
III. Increases addiction in internet games
a. I only b. II only c. III only d. I, II, and III
5. In which area of learning has technology given the most influence?
a. Distance learning b. Face to face learning c. On the job learning d. Blended learning

You’ve successfully reached the end of this lesson. Good Job!!!

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