Lesson 10

THE COMPUTER AS A TUTOR

It should be made clear, however, that the computer cannot totally replace the teacher since the teacher shall continue to play information deliverer and learning environment controller.

• The computer is a tutor in this new age of learning. It does not replace the teacher, although it assumes certain roles previously assigned to teacher who now has to take the new role of facilitator and guide. 
• Computer activities are not the end-all of learning since they have to conform to the lessons/curriculum.
• Computers will become an integral component of the future classroom and not a mere machine that can deliver routine drills and exercises.

REFLECTION

      I have learned that not all tutors can be always a human; it can also be a thing like “computer”. We are now in the modern world , the use of computer is rapidly arises. And in just one click, there will be more information provided to us. 

APPLICATION

      Today, educators accept the fact that the computer has indeed succeeded in providing an individualized learning environment so difficult for a teacher handling whole classes. This is so, since the computer is able to allow individual students to learn at their own pace, motivate learning through a challenging virtual learning environment, assist students through information needed during the learning process, evaluate students responses through immediate feedback during the learning process, and also give the total score to evaluate the student’s total performance

Lesson 9

COMPUTER AS INFORMATION AND COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY

        The evolving pace of innovation in today’s Information Age is so dynamic that within the first decade of the 21st century, computer technology in education has matured to transform into an educative information and communication technology (ICT) in education.

REFLECTION

          As a future teachers, we share and give information to our students during instruction. And to be able to deliver this information, effective communication is important. ICT is very useful in the sense that information and communication are important elements in teaching.

APPLICATION

      As a future teacher, we must take into consideration the process in every project because in the process, the students were able to think and apply their creativity as results they have develop their higher As a future teacher, we must take into consideration the process in every project because in the process, the students were able to think and apply their creativity as results they have develop their higher order thinking skills.

r order thinking skills.

Lesson 8

HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT - BASED PROJECT

         It is the students themselves who demonstrate higher thinking skills and creativity through such activities searching for information, organizing and synthesizing ideas, creating presentations, and the like.

In developing software, creativity as an outcome should not be equated with ingenuity or high intelligence. Creating is more constant with planning, making, assembling, designing, or building.

REFLECTION:

       
        We could use all the things that we learned in this lesson through letting students engage in activities that  needs a higher plane of thinking. And it is highly used by the teachers who wanted to improve their teaching lesson.

APPLICATION

       As a teacher we must to motivate them to improve more their skills or ability being creative so that they can enhance their knowledge about what they learn.

Lesson 7

IT FOR HIGHER 
THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY

           The traditional information absorption model of teaching is that the model of teaching is that the teacher is the organizes and presents information to student-learners. He/she may use the chalkboard, videotape, newspaper or magazine and photos. Then the presentation is followed by a discussion and the giving of assignment. But a new challenge has arisen for today’s learners and this is not simply to achieve learning objectives but to encourage the development of students who can do more than receive, recite and apply the knowledge they have acquired. Today students are expected not only to be mentally excellent, but also flexible , analytical and creative.

THINKING SKILLS FRAMEWORK

Complex thinking skills	Sub-skills
Focusing	Defining the problem, goal/objective setting, brainstorming
Information gathering	Selection, recording of data of information
Remembering	Associating, relating new data with old
Analyzing	Identifying idea constructs, patterns
Generating	Deducing, inducting, elaborating
Organizing	Classifying, relating
Imagining	Visualizing, predicting
Designing	Planning, formulating
Integration	Summarizing, abstracting
Evaluating	Setting, criteria, testing idea, verifying outcomes, revising

The Upgraded Project Method

                Given these complex thinking skills, the modern day teacher can now be guided on his goal to help student achieve higher level thinking skills and creativity beyond ordinary benchmark of the student’s passing, even excelling achievements tests. When the ordinary classrooms are lacking with instructional kits, use the project method to bring students to higher domains. In a project method, students work on projects with depth complexity, duration, and relevance to the real world. There is already a revised project method wherein the students  would make decisions about what to put on the project, how to organize information and how to package the outcomes for presentation while the teacher guides and facilities the learning process.

REFLECTION

              The things I learned in this lesson may also use for the improvement of the better use of learning resources. Teachers can highly reflect on this, since teachers are always use this resource material most of the time.

APPLICATION

            Being a teacher it is our obligation to teach our students into become a good and responsible one in making their projects and activity as a teacher we must to guide them and give attention what they made it..