State-of-the-art ETApplication practices

Our Educators today have become more aware and active in adopting state-of-the-art Educational technology practices they can possibly adopt.

Teachers need to acquire not only computer literacy, but competence as well.

The list of audio visual aids available to or schools may not even apply any more since modern day computer hardware and software rendered them obsolete.

Sad to say some software materials acquired by school about five years ago are not even compatible anymore to more recent computer systems.

“Don’t invest in technology hardware/system that may become white elephant in a few years time”

The following trends should also be recognized by educators.Through school or training center

computer courses, present-day students become computer literate.

Following the call for developing critical thinking among students, teachers have deemphasized rote learning and have spent more times in methods to follow students to comprehend/internalize lessons.

Recent teaching-learning models (such as constructivism and social constructivism) have paved the way for instructional approaches in which student rely less on teachers as information-givers, and instead their efforts to acquire information, build their own knowledge, and solve problems.

The appropriate use of state-of-the-art instruction with the use of IT, Tapping the computer’s information and communication tools.

OBJECTION IN E.TComputer is time-consuming and

expensiveThe computers may soon REPLACE

TEACHERS.

Teachers need to balance their time for preparation and application of instructional tools.

Ensure that the use of ET is fitted to learning activities

Following modern trends in technology –related education, school should now foster a student-centered learning environment, wherein student are given leeway to use computer information sources in their assignment, reports and presentations in written, visual, or dramatic forms.

“Teachers and schools can no longer avoid the

integration of educational technology

in instruction”