In your experience, what section/s of this write-up is/are not applicable to our students and/or educational setup? Please explain your answer.
Answers
· All of the sections in the article I’ve read are applicable to my students and to our educational set-up. I have seen the positive impacts of technology to my students in a way of their development creativity, problem-solving abilities, informational reasoning skills, communication skills and other higher order thinking skills. I have seen also that my students were more motivated to learn and have increased their self-confidence and self-esteem.
· However, among the sections stated in the article, 2 sections are less applicable to my students such as Collaboration with Peers and Use of Outside Resources.
Why?
- Students are working in one computer and questions are not allowed to ask from one another or helping one another because they need to learn on their own or learning independently.
- Less of offering assistance and discussions on what to plan and act.
- Lack of peer assessment to critique each others’ work
- Lack of broadening their horizons with technology in the use of online research, telecommunications/teleconferencing, satellite broadcasts and etc.
Change in student’s and teacher’s roles was seen as a positive effect brought about by technology. But how do you reach the kind of level (of change) described here (teacher becoming a facilitator, students are in the position of defining their goals)?
Answers:
· As a teacher in the Grade School, I have become a facilitator than a lecturer through the use and integration of technology. I became a facilitator in a way of explaining the objectives; giving the instructions/ guidelines and series of activities to them. Let the activities work by them independently in order for them to learn on their own learning and exploration. I had seen their changes and development through their output. Aside from this, I also monitor the activities given to them by moving around from one student to another. Being a facilitator changes my role as a teacher because I talk less but more learning and improvement had developed and enhanced to my students. Compared to being a lecturer, they talk and explain more but only few of the students are learning and the rest felt boring.
Technology is a two-edged sword, its effects on classrooms and students could be both positive and negative. Under ‘more collaboration with peers’, the author talks only of the positive impacts of technology. What could be the negative impacts under this section?
Answers:
· The negative impacts of “Collaboration with Peers” are the following:
-- Loss of Communication in a way student who doesn’t communicate might not understand on what she/he is supposed to do.
---Without Teamwork will lead students not to create a secure space for sharing ideas, solving problems and etc.
---Students might loss their ethics and right conduct to comment on others’ work.
- Some students might give bad comments and conflict might arrive between the two opponents..
----Loss of Interest, Self-confidence and Self-esteem
----Lack of Satisfaction and creativeness to make one work/task a presentable
----Insufficient time to accomplish one task
--- No convenient source of assistance
--- Poor recitation and participation of the students
4. For you, what is the most positive impact of technology on classroom and students? Why?
Answers:
· The most positive impact of technology on classroom and students is the section, “Increased Motivation and Self- esteem”.
- Through the use of technology, students must learn to think, analyze, research, and do in different ways, more enriched and more powerful ways. As a teacher, I want my students to understand ways that technology helps them to learn, adapt and increase their motivation and self-esteem because …..:
-- students must be well- motivated in the use of technology to acquire their interest and enhance their achievement.
-- motivation is somewhat a driving force to encourage students to learn and pursue their studies and dreams if technology is present.
-- it gives satisfaction to continue achieving one’s work.
-- helps student to be more confident in designing a nice looking and presentable output.
-- once students are motivated and confident, all the effects or impacts of technology on classrooms and students can be under this section, wherein they become an active role, acquire a level of more technology skills, more complicated task can be accomplished, more collaboration with peers, increase the use of outside resources, and improve the creativity or design skills to audience.
