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Lesson 3

Roles of Technology
for Teaching and
Learning
Objectives:
⚫ Identified roles of technology in
teaching and learning
⚫ Appreciated the value of
technology in supporting student
learning
Are students of today interested
to use technology in order to
learn?
Do teachers have the skills to
use technology to enhance
their teaching?
3 Domains of Educational Technology (Stosic,
2015)

1. Technology as a tutor- technology can


support the teacher to teach another person
or technology when programmed by the
teacher can be a tutor on it’s own.
2. Technology as a teaching tool- like any
other tool, it is being used to facilitate and
lighten the work of the teacher. It has also
opened wider avenues in management of
resources and management of learning.
3. Technology as a learning tool- technology
makes learning easy and effective, as well as
modernizing the teaching-learning
environment in schools.
For Teachers and Teaching
1. Technology provides enormous support to the
teacher as the facilitator of learning.
2. Technology has modernized the
teaching-learning environment.
3. Technology improves teaching-learning
process and ways of teaching.
4. Technology opens new fields in educational
researches.
5. Technology adds to the competence of
teachers and inculcates scientific outlook.
6. Technology supports teacher professional
development
For Learners and Learning
1. Support learners to learn on their own

3 categories of knowledge (Egbert, 2009)


1. Declarative knowledge
2. Structural knowledge
3. Procedural knowledge

Remember:
Knowledge or content can be learned and
sourced in so many ways.
Cont…
2. Technology enhances learners’
communication skills through social
interactions

3 Communication Pattern (Egbert, 2009)


1. Point to point, one-to-one or two-way like
chat, phone conversation, or face-to-face
conversation.
2. One-to-many like lecture or television. There
is no social interactions.
3. Many-to-many like group discussion, buzz
session. Provides rich experience for social
interaction
Cont…
Social interactions through
communication occurs:
1. Through technology like via email,
phone call or other communication
technology
2. Around technology such as student
discussing about the problem posed by a
software
3. With support of technology like
teacher and students interacting about a
worksheet printed from a website.
Cont…
3. Technology upgrades learners’
higher-order-thinking skills: critical
thinking, problem solving and creativity

Critical thinking refers to the ability to


interpret, explain, analyze, evaluate, infer,
and self regulate in order to make good
decisions.

Creativity is characterized as involving the


ability to think flexibly(to use many points of
view), fluently (generate many ideas), originally
(generate new ideas), and elaborately (able to add
details).
Tips for teaching Critical
Thinking
1. Ask the right questions.
2. Vary the questions asked
3. Use and modify critical thinking tasks
with appropriate level of challenge.
4. Introduce new technologies.
5. Modify the learners’ groupings.
6. Encourage curiosity.
Tips for teaching Creativity
1. Provide an enriched environment.
2. Teach creative thinking strategies.
3. Allow learners to show what they can do.
4. Use creativity with technology.
Seven Creative Strategies (Osborn, 1963)
⚫ Substitute- find something else to replace to
do what it does
⚫ Combine- blend two things that do not
usually go together
⚫ Adapt- look for other ways/usage of a tool or
thing
⚫ Modify/Magnify/Minify- make a change,
enlarge, decrease
⚫ Put to another use- find other uses
⚫ Eliminate- reduce, remove
⚫ Reverse- turn upside-down, inside-out, front
As a future teacher…
1. Encourage students to find and use information from
variety of sources both on-line and off-line.
2. Assist students to compare information from different
sources.
3. Allow students to reflect through different delivery
modes like writing, speaking, and drawing.
4. Use real experiences and material to draw tentative
decisions.
5. Involve students in creating and questioning assessment.

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