ICT-Pedagogy Integration in Language Learning Plans
ICT-Pedagogy Integration in Language Learning Plans
ICT-Pedagogy
Integration in Language
Learning Plans
LESSON
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
3. plan for some activities that will help develop digital citizenship and
relate this to the development of the 21st Century skills among
learners.
Teaching has always been a challenging profession since
knowledge has been expanding and essentials skills have
been increasing and changing. With these challenges,
teachers need to engage educational technologies to assist
them in the teaching-learning process. Engaging educational
technologies in teaching are founded on principles and
philosophies. Understanding these will help you successfully
integrate technologies to allow your students to demonstrate
the intended learning outcomes of your field of
specialization.
Integrating Technologies in Instructions
Various educators and researchers provided the following
concepts and principles about integrating technology in
instruction:
JOHN PISAPIA (1994)
Integrating technology means the use of learning technologies
to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend skills. For example, if a
teacher merely tells a student to read without any preparation for
follow up activities that put the book in a pedagogical context, the
book is not integrated. In the same way, if the teacher uses the
computer to reward children by allowing them to play a game, the
computer is not integrated.
In this digital era, ICT is important in the classroom for giving students opportunities to
learn and apply the required 21st Century skills. ICT improves teaching and learning and
helps teachers perform their role as creator of pedagogical environment. ICT helps a
teacher to present his/her teaching attractively and enables learners to learn at any level
of an educational program.