Reminder

• Find a suitable quiet environment.

• Pick an appropriate background.
• Dress and sit appropriately.
• Use headphones to reduce noise.
• Mute your microphone when you're not speaking.
• Pay attention to the agenda.
• Record decisions and next steps.
• Check your internet speed.
 Lesson 3

Importance of Educational Technology

Technology for Teaching and Learning 1

Benefits of Technology in Education

Instructional Effectiveness
• One benefit of multimedia instruction can be an increase in
student achievement.
• Students appear to be much interested when more senses are
involved in lesson presentation activities.
• They learn more when they see and read, hear, and experience
exercises designed for them.
Benefits of Technology in Education

Active Learning
• Interactive technologies supply stimulating environments that
encourage student involvement in the learning process.
• Students enjoy playing games, solving problems, and working
interactively with computer lessons, modules, and practice
exercises.
Benefits of Technology in Education

Cooperative Learning
• Well-structured cooperative learning activities can foster “the
development of leadership abilities, teamwork, and improved
self-steem.”
• These conditions will uplift the ego of the slow learners and
give a sense of achievement among the bright ones through
helping others improve their learning.
Benefits of Technology in Education

Communication skills
• Communication skills can be enhanced by using technology in
small groups and by integrating telecommunications into the
curriculum.
• Exposure to correct pronunciation, diction, and enunciation will
encourage the students to emulate what they hear.
• Exposure to good and correct grammar will enable them to get
used to speaking and proper communication
Benefits of Technology in Education

Multisensory Delivery
• Technology supplies information through multiple sensory
channels, allowing the students with various learning styles to
assimilate and apply knowledge.
• As the experts say, the more senses are involved, the better
assimilation of knowledge and learning.
Benefits of Technology in Education

Multicultural Education
• Telecommunications make it possible to expand classroom
“Walls” and link students and teachers in national and
international exchanges.
Importance of Technology in School
Researchers gave account of why technology is important in schools.
Studies have shown the following results.
• Children conversant with technology show improvements in their
writing, reading, and math skills.
• Technology has also contributed to the decrease in drop out rates,
improvement in student attendance and enhancement in their learning
abilities.
• Technology in schools benefits the children during their higher
education. It lay a strong foundation of the successful professional life of
an individual.
Importance of Technology in School
• Computers can offer livelier explanations of various subjects, The Internet is an
ocean of information, which can be harnessed for the rendition of information in
school.
• The inclusion of technology in the proces of learning makes learning an enjoyable
activity, thus inviting greater interest from the kids.
• The knowledge from all around the world can be better brought about for the
children and can be better assimilated by them.
• The administration processes, the official procedures of school can be simplified by
means of technology. School records, the information about all the students and the
teachers and also other school employees can efficiently be maintained by means of
the advanced technology.
Importance of Technology in School
• The data pertaining to the school employees and students can effectively be
stored in a school database.
• The school could have a library system, which, by the utilization of
technology, can be maintained in an efficient manner.
• On similar line, the attendance records of the pupils and teachers can be
maintained by means of a student database.
• Moreover, the school can host a website of its own, holding information about
the school. The introduction of technology in schools can thus result in a
decreased use of paper and in bringing most of the school office work in an e-
format.
Importance of Educational Technology in Learning
Technology can be the delivery vehicles for instructional lessons
or in a constructivist way as partners in the learning process.
Technology helps the learners build more personal interpretations
of life in her/his world. It makes the learner gather, think,
analyze, synthesize information and construct meaning with what
technology presents.
Importance of Educational Technology in Learning
1. Technology provides important tools to support knowledge
construction for presenting learner’s ideas, understanding and
beliefs and for producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases
for learners.
2. Technology serves as information vehicles for exploring
knowledge to support learning-by-constructing.
3. Technology is important when used for comparing
perspectives, beliefs and world views.
Technology as context is important to support learning
by doing as:
1. Representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems,
situations and contexts. Technology provides varied materials that
cater to the different senses that are stimulated by the activities
and technology used to better understand the lesson.
2. Representing beliefs, perspectives, arguments, and stories of
others. Technology in the form of documentation and picture
taking can show some religious beliefs and etc.
Technology as context is important to support learning
by doing as:
3. Defining safe, controllable problem space for student thinking.
student can be given exercises about thinking critically. Critical
thinking is the reflective reasonable thing focused on what one
believes and does.
Technology as a social medium is important to support
learning by conversing through:
1. Collaborating with others.
2. Discussing, arguing, and building consensus among members
of the community.
3. Supporting discourse among knowledge building communities.
Technology as an intellectual partner through:
1. Helping learners to articulate and represent what they know
reflecting on what they have learned and how they come to know
it.
2. Supporting learner’s internal negotiations and meaning
making.
3. Constructing personal representations of meaning for
supporting mindful thinking.
Research indicates that technology, when used effectively,
whether from the traditional or constructivist point of view, and
when used effectively, “increases students’ learning,
understanding, and achievement but also augments, motivation to
learn, encourages collaborative learning and supports the
development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills”
(Shacter and Fagnano, 1999).
Activity #3: Information Collection
This activity will allow you to get information from teachers
and students on the importance of technology in teaching and
learning respectively.
A. Teachers (at least 3 teachers)
Interview Question: What are the behaviors you observed from
your students after using technology in teaching?
B. Students (at least 5 students)
Interview Question: Why do you think technology is important
in your studies?
 Lesson 3

ICT Policies and Safety Issues in Teaching

and Learning
Technology for Teaching and Learning 1
ICT Policies and Issues: Implications to Teaching and
Learning
• The Oxford Dictionary has defined “policy” as a course of
action adopted and pursued by a government, party, ruler,
statesman. It is any course of action adopted as expedient or
advantageous.
• Its operational definition of policy is a plan of action to guide
decisions and achieve outcomes.
Thus, ICT policies are needed to put a road-map or course of
actions to be pursued and adopted by various governments,
organizations, entities involving ICT.

These include principles and guidelines in the use of ICT which

cover three main areas: telecommunications (telephone),
broadcasting (radio and television) and Internet
The New ICT technologies

More recent technological innovations increased the reach and

speed of communications which can be grouped in three
categories:
1.Information Technology This includes the use of computers,
which has become indispensable in modern societies to process
data and save time and effort. What are needed will be computer
hardware and peripherals, software and for the user, computer
literacy.
The New ICT technologies

2.Telecommunication Technologies These include telephones

(with fax) and the broadcasting of radio and television often
through satellites. Telephone system, radio and TV broadcasting
are needed in this category.
The New ICT technologies

3.Networking Technologies The best known networking

technologies is Internet, but it has extended to mobile phone
technology, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VIOP) satellite
communications and other forms of communication are still in
their infancy. In addition to Internet, this Category also includes
mobile telephones, cable, DSL, satellite and other broadband
connectivity.
DICT ROADMAP

The Department of Information and Communication Technology

(DICT) has formulated a road map to guide all agencies in the
utilization, regulation and enhancement of ICT. Each project has
corresponding policy statements and guidelines.
ICT FOR EDUCATION (ICT4E)

A program under the DICT that supports all the efforts of the
education sector in incorporating the use of ICT as well as in
determining and gaining access to the infrastructure (hardware,
software, telecommunications facilities and others) which are
necessary to use and deploy learning technologies at all levels of
education.
Among the policy recommended programs that have
applications to education teaching-learning are:
(DICT Policy Recommended Programs that have applications to education teaching-
learning)
1. ICT in Education Master plan for all levels.
2. Content and Application development through the Open Content in Education
Initiative (OCEI).
3. PhedNET
4. Established Community eLearning Centers
5. eQuality Program for Tertiary education
6. Digital Media Arts Program
7. ICT skills strategic Plan
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and
Regulations
Global Issues
Access and civil liberties are two sets of issues in ICT policy
which are crucial to the modern society. The other concern is civil
liberties which refer to human rights and freedom.
These include:
-freedom of expression
-the right to privacy
-the right to communicate
-intellectual property rights
Some Issues on ICT and Internet Policy and
Regulations
Access to the Use of Internet and ICT
Access means the possibility for everyone to use the internet and
other media. In richer countries, basic access to internet is almost
available to all with faster broadband connections. There are still
countries where access to internet is still a challenge.
Issue No. 1: Freedom of Expression and Censorship.
Access to the Use of Internet and ICT
Under international human rights conventions, all people are
guaranteed the rights for free expressions. However with the
shift from communicating through letter, newspapers and public
meetings to electronic communications and online networking, a
need to look into how these new means modifies the
understanding of freedom of expression and censorship
Issue No. 1: Freedom of Expression and Censorship.
• The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that
everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion, likewise the right to freedom of opinion and
expression.
• Censorship restricts the transmission of information by
blocking it or filtering information.
Issue No. 1: Freedom of Expression and Censorship.
Some examples are the following:
• Individual rights are given up in order to have access the electronic networks.
• Censorship restricts the transmission of information by blocking it or filtering the
Information. Blocking is preventing access to whole areas of internet based upon the
“blacklist” of certain Internet address, location or email addresses while filtering is
sifting the packets of data or messages as they move across computer networks and
eliminating those considered “undesirable” materials. The selection of sites that are
blocked or filtered has been considered as an issue.
• Defamation actions may be used to silence critics. This action deters the freedom of
expression.
Issue No. 2: Privacy and Security
Privacy policies are an issue. Most commercial sites have a privacy policy. When
someone uses a site and clicks “I agree” button, it is as if you have turned over private
information to any authority that may access it.
There are types of privacy as shown by the following examples:
a. For most, privacy means “personal privacy: the right of individuals not to have their
home, private life or personal life interfered with.
b. Privacy of communication refers to the protection form interference with
communication over the phone or internet. Respect for privacy of communications is an
essential prerequisite for the maintenance of human relationship via technological
communications media. I
Issue No. 2: Privacy and Security
c. Information privacy is related to the use of computers and communications system
which are able to hold and process information about large numbers of people at a high
speed. It is important to ensure that information will only be used for purposes for
which it was gathered and will not be disclosed to others without consent of the
individuals
Issue No. 3: Surveillance and Data Retention

Indirect Surveillance – no direct contact between the agent and the

subject for surveillance and but evidence of activities can be traced.
Data Surveillance –the use of personal information to monitor a person’s
activities.
Data Retention – the storage and use of information from communication
systems.
Issue No. 4: E- pollutants from E-waste
Large amount of E-waste is generated by ICT.

These are in particular, terminal equipment's for computing,

broadcasting, telephony, and peripherals.

Material waste can be destroyed by crushing, toxic material

brought by the different equipment requires utmost management.