Introduction
Relevance and Appropriateness in the use of technology in teaching and learning. in this time of advancement technology has very inportant in all fields of our society the educational sector embraces and recognizes the involvement of technology towards teaching and learning moreover because of some circumstances such as we are facing right now which is the pandemic, technolgy helps teachers and students in coping to the missed days and still to continue the unfinised school days to ensure that the certain educational institution will still afford it's Vission, Mission and Goals.
How important is technology in education? The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly demonstrating why online education should be a vital part of teaching and learning. By integrating technology into existing curricula, as opposed to using it solely as a crisis-management tool, teachers can harness online learning as a powerful educational tool.
The effective use of digital learning tools in classrooms can increase student engagement, help teachers improve their lesson plans, and facilitate personalized learning. It also helps students build essential 21st-century skills.
Virtual classrooms, video, and other technology tools can not only make class more lively, they can also create more inclusive learning environments that foster collaboration and inquisitiveness and enable teachers to collect data on student performance.
Still, it’s important to note that technology is a tool used in education and not an end in itself. The promise of educational technology lies in what educators do with it and how it is used to best support their students’ needs.
Technology, when used correctly, can actually have a very positive effect on a child's development. Studies have found that our ability to identify key information buried within a cluster of characters and visual stimuli (advertisements) has increased as technology has become more integrated in our lives. In addition, regular interfaces with technology can lead to improved hand-eye coordination, multi-tasking, and reaction time. However, when screen time is not properly controlled, there can be negative effects of technology on child development.
Learning Objectives
- Support strategies and human resources and material assests with the mission to achieve determine goals
- Create appropriate aids and instruments supporting educational practices to design educational technologies models catering in group the existing classes for teaching and learning
- Students will be able to define the relevance appropriateness in the use of technology in techning and learning
Pre-Assessment
1. Why is technolgy important in education?
2. Give atleast two (2) educational technology tool
Content
- Meet "educational aims" - According to Quereshi it gives direction to educational activity this are the predertemined goal which inspire in those educational sector to attain it through approapriate activities there are factors which affect educational aims such as philosophy my be from the teacher, administrator or the students we also have elements of the human nature like theskills knowledge behavior communication and many more we also consider religious factors.
- Supports creativity and cretical thinking - in higher education students are expected to use technolgy in a beneficial way which one of the goal of free wifi connection and educational institution it has been a great help the teachers use technology to maximize teaching and learning with thier students it is like hitting two birds in one stone with the use of technology students will be able to learn under moon which is good especially the educational sector allows virtual classrooms learners will be able to use and develop critical thinking for they're going to have no choice but to study on thier own.
- Facilitate the learning and could improve performance - because of the wide scope of knowledge which technology offers us we will be able to use our decision-making and practive ourselves to understand a concept more deeply and more simply, moreover technology can be a good use in term of managing teaching and learning activities such as there are online platforms in which teachers could use so they can give learning activities to students even in distance in return those students are thought fundamental learning or concepts the students will be encourage to explore more and find thier own way of understanding it more simply which could suit thier learning piece and learning capacity after all learning never stop.
- Technology engages students and creates motivated learners - instructional materials which are significantly used in teaching and learning enviroment are considered as technology with the use of our insructional materials and learning methods teachers will be able to encourage students to explore and enhance thier strenghths and strengthens thier weaknesses teachers will have the opportunity to enourage and wake up thier inner self and motivated to actively participate and learn more to meet the different competencies of the curriculum.
- Facilitate the communication - between the students and the teachers giving of instuction became easier of technology such as the use of social media like facebook or in messenger, stunts will be able to connect teachers even though they are not in one place, teachers can also monitor the social activities of thier students also with the creative ideas in social media platforms teachers could integrate it in thier classroom management in every session on the other hand responsible of use of technology must be given importance because sometimes students our teacher may forget the gap between them students must thought a value of respect so that the pursue of technology to facilitate commnucation would still be effective in spite of the openness with the teacher-students relationship.
- Enhances individual learning and growth - technolgy also Enhances individual learning and growth just like what i said ealier educational institution encourage near faculty and students to have virtual online classroom using any social medica platforms such as Google Classroom, Canva, Zoom and many more through this online platforms teachers will only give activities to be done by thier students with this students will be able to learn on thier own, students honest cooperation is needed but then appropriateness of learning materials or assessment task that are given virtually must be taken into account for the reason that not all students can learn new knowledge on thier own thier should be gradual enhancement for the sake of the students. with technology the classroom becaomes wider we let the styudents be involved in the real-world setting because of interconnectivity Bringing the world into the classroom teachers relate some concepts into the real world setting and also technology infuses classroom with digital learning tools such as computers, tablets and portable devices like smartphones and many more.
- Expanded experiences and learning materials - because of technolgy students can learn anytime and anywhere they can utilize thier free time in learning even well on social media there are educational pages but then this remains a challenges to learners to use technolgy in a good way and in moderation even if there are varities of learning materials unless there's an assignment or assessment task they will not use technolgy to learn most of the students are only fond of using these resources for entertainment.
- Supports learning 24/7 - well basically we have google which we can access 24/7 even though it supports learning anytime and anywhere it still depend on the user if he or she will use it to learn.
Post-Assessment
Direction: Put check in the blank if the picture is appropriate technology for teaching and learning and put an X if it is not appropriate.
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References
School of education online programs Published Thursday, June 25, 2020. How Important Is Technology in Education? Benefits, Challenges, and Impact on Students https://soeonline.american.edu/blog/technology-in-education