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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA 

The Learning process can be interpreted into Four steps

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TOOLS THAT SUPPORT LEARNING

UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL MEDIA

Media- is the plural of medium .It has developed to mean “Facilitating or linking communication” be it via a radio, phone web TV or some other instruments.

Multimedia- is the powerful avenue in communicating information and messages to other people.

Digital Media- is defined as those technologies that enable users to make new forms of communication, interaction, and entertainment in digital format.

Digital Media Software- refers to any computer-based presentation or application software that uses multimedia elements.

Interactive digital media- allows users to interact with the program by means of input coming from the user through pointing device, keyboard, voice, finger taps, movements, then the digital media performs an action in response

THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL MEDIA APPLICATION IN EDUCATION

Digital Media application is highly effective educational tools when appropriately integrated into teaching during instruction.

REASONS WHY DIGITAL  MEDIA APPLICATIONS ARE IMPORTANT IN EDUCATION

• It appeals to a variety of learning styles.
• It ensures success for all students learning.
• It assists teachers in meeting diverse learning styles
• It enhances learning process.
• It engages and motivates learners
• It gives learners the chance to explore on 
• The subject matter and other topics related to it.
• It provides learners the enjoyment to create their own interactive digital media presentations.
• It increases self-esteem and confidence among students.
• It develops critical and creative thinking skills and technological skills of the students that are required of them in the 21st century.

TEACHING STRATEGIES TO HELP TEACHERS IN MANAGING THEIR STUDENTS IN THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM:

• Effective computer Scheduling avoid giving huge projects, break it instead into well-defined tasks to enable students to use their computer wisely.
• Use project management techniques inform your students of the date of submission of the project so the amount of time they need to devote in the project will be clearly defined.
• Storyboarding require your students to create a visual plan prior to working with computers.
• Effective Research Strategies have gathering of information and other searching work be done in advance or as homework to practice quality work time.
• Utilize Students Experts allow assistance from classmates who are experts in the software.
• Ensure Student Participation assign roles of students in each project so everyone will participate.
• Maximize One –to-One Computing use other digital technologies besides computers.
• Utilize Students Experts allow assistance from classmates who are experts in the software.
• Ensure Student Participation assign roles of students in each project so everyone will participate.
• Maximize One –to-One Computing use other digital technologies besides computers.
• Help Students entertain students who have queries and those who need your expertise.
• Handle Technical Questions allow students to throw their questions to their group members first before they can ask you.
• Visible Classroom Rules post Technology guidelines and policies to a visible place inform the likewise of these guidelines and policies prior to the start of their project.

DIGITAL TOOLS THAT SUPPORT 

TECHNOLOGY AS TUTOR

Tutor is defined as “to teach or guide usually individually in a special subject or for a particular purpose.

Technology as a tutor is teaching machine that teaches new content to students.

Technology-based tutorial is a complete lesson on a specific topic offered via technology.

Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that provides the students with detailed, personalized support in learning.

Integrated Learning Software (ILSi) and Computer-Adapted Instructions (CAI) are other name of intelligent.

Web Quest are teacher-designed lessons that make use of the internet to solve problems presented by teachers for student inquiry

TECHNOLOGY AS MINDTOOL

Mind tools are technology applications that allow learners to simulate, organize manipulate, visualize or reflect on data, information and object.

Other Technology tools that Support Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

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MY TIME PLAN

My TIME plan in learning

Power Point Presentation

Technology in Integration that supports My Learning

1. Name and describe the teaching strategy that would be effective for you to understand the lesson better?

     The teaching strategies that would be effective to understand the lesson better is to have an objectives that they need to achieved at the end of the lesson for the to know what their goals, teachers also need to discuss properly the lesson that students digest every words that comes from their mouth. Aside from that, teachers must need to guide the students to perform a task in a real world situation for them to relate and apply it in their daily life and always complement them in every success and their hard work to perform activities in order to motivate them to study hard and focus on their studies.

2. Describe how you wish the topic be taught by the teacher.

     The topic I want to choose that related to my specialization is “Bahagi ng Pananalita” in English, part of speech, I wish to learn more this topic for my own learning as well as my future student for them to acquire knowledge and be aware in this lesson, when time comes that it was repeated, they know how to answer their teachers confidently.

3. Identify which educational technology/ies can be used to support your learning of subject matter.

     The educational technologies that can be used to support learning in this subject matter is PowerPoint presentation about the topic (Pang-uri, Panghalip, Pang-abay etc.) teacher can also use flashcards to identify “pangngalan” and the differences between “Pantangi at Pambalana” They can also play a video presentation on the wall using projectors for “Pandiwa” to know what is action word.

4. Describe how the educational technology/ies should be integrated for effective learning.

     Educational technology should be integrated for effective learning to feature all the pictures that needs student to recognize, unlike traditional they can only imagine what teachers teaches but now it is more effective to familiarize every detail of the pictures or words, using Technology in education makes teaching easy and students are enjoying and more attract  to learned the lesson that teachers discuss or elaborate so that, Educational technology is great both students and teachers teaching and learning.

Chapter 2

TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (ISTE)

Standards – incorporating the use of technology in education would mean something that will serve as guide to assist the administrators, teachers and learners in achieving quality and excellence in teaching and learning. 

ISTE STANDARDS FOR  ADMINISTRATORS

• Visionary leadership.
• Digital age learning culture
• Excellence in professional practice.
• Systematic improvement
• Digital citizenship

ISTE STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS

• Facilitate and inspire student learning creativity
• Design and  develop digital age learning experiences and assessments
• Model digital age work citizenship and responsibility
• Engage in professional growth and leadership
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ISTE STANDARDS FOR STUDENTS

• Creativity and innovation
• Communication and collaboration
• Research and information fluency
• Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making
• Digital citizenship
• Technology Operations and concepts

TECHNOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (TPACK) AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION PLANNING (TIP)

     It guides teachers on how to integrate technology into teaching.

TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (Tech-PACK)

 is framework that integrates technology in education to help encapsulate the complex interactions among content, pedagogy, and technology.

CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (CK)

Teachers knowledge about subject matter.

PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (PK)

Teachers deep knowledge about the process and practices or methods of teaching and learning

PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (PCK)

Covers condition that promote learning

TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE (TK)

The definition of TK is fluid due to fast updates and upgrades that happen time to time.

TECHNOLOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (TCK)

TCK is an understanding of the way in which technology and content affect and restrict one another

TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (TPK)

TPK is an understanding of  how teaching and learning can change when particular technologies are used in particular methods.

TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (Tech-PACK)

Tech-PACK is basis of effective teaching with technology.

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION PLANNING (TIP)

     Is model created for teachers as a guide that ensures the efficiency of integration of technology in education.

PHASE 1:  Analysis of learning and teaching needs

STEP 1:  (Determine the relative advantage)

• Compatibility – Methods consistent in their cultural values and beliefs and others adopted in the past.
• Complexity- Easy enough for them to learn and to carry out on a frequent basis.
• Triability- being able to try out a little before making a final decision
• Observability- seeing others they respect or emulate using the new method successfully

STEP 2: Assess Tech-PACK

Focus: What is technological pedagogical content knowledge (Tech-PACK)

PHASE 2: Planning for integration

STEP 3: decide on objectives , assessments

Focus: How  will I know students have learned?

STEP 4: Design Integration Strategies

Focus: What teaching strategies and activities will work best?

STEP 5: Prepare Instructional Environment

 Focus: Are Essential conditions in place to support teaching and learning.

STAGES OF TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

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MEETING MY STANDARDS

1. Which among standards do you practice the least? Why? 
   
     The standards for students that I practice the least is the critical thinking, problem solving and decision making because I am not that good in that aspects, it is hard for me to think critically, to be more  creative the way that others complement my works, to identify and solve the problems using technologies, to plan and make decision in every situation especially in my outputs, task and make solution in every problems that’s why I need to focus and develop it for my own growth.

2. What intended actions will you do to meet the said standards?

     The intended actions that I must do to meet this standards is to focused. All of us have our own knowledge, uniqueness, understanding and skills, all we have to do is to enhance, develop, and apply it through practicing and focusing on the aspects that is hard for them.


MY DIAGRAM IN A DRUM

     I Designed my diagram in that way to show the integration between this phases, inside the diagram that I make, I wrote my understanding about differences of the three phases of technology Integration Planning Model.


MY STAIRWAYS TO SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

Topic: Makrong kasanayan 
Grade level: 9

1. How will I use the selected technologies in class intstruction?

      The selected technologies that I want to use are laptop, projecter and speaker in classroom instruction. Inside the class I wish to deliver topic entitled “Makrong Kasanayan” We all know that 5 macro skills are reading, writing, listening, talking, including watching, I want to discuss it because it is one of important things that students need to experience. I will let them read the terms and definition that flashes in wall using projector, I will let them listen a song and explain infront of the class the message of that song, lastly I will let them experience to watch inside the classroom an inspirational movie while writing and jot down all the important events or simulation of the story. Through that, the use of technologies the teaching and learning process became more effective.

2. How will my selected technologies support students learning?

     My selected technologies support students learning because it helps them to apply their skills and discover new learning and solve problems in a real world situation, they can apply it, experience it, see and be advance in the learnings that they want to know with the help of this  technologies

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TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

TEACHER OF THE EARLY GENERATION VS TEACHERS OF THE 21^ST CENTURY

TEACHERS IN YESTERYEARS

•    Disseminate information through lectures.
•   Requires students to memorize contents from textbooks.
•   Make use of textbooks and workbooks as their refference.
•   Give assessment through written examinations.
•   Focus on their responsibility and relationship with the students as recipients of knowledge.
•   Followers of policies prescribed by the school.
•   Use lecture as teaching method.
•   Deliver the same lessons every year
•    Too focused on self-achievement.
•   Target to finish the lesson within the period.
•   Autocratic in which teachers are in  control of everything in all events of the classroom.
•   Holder of knowledge/gate keeper of information.
•    Technology illiterate

TEACHERS OF THE 21^ST CENTURY

•   Allow students to solve real world problems.
•   Allow students to construct their own understanding of the subject matter.
•   Make use  of manipulate materials; make use of multitude of prints and electronic  sources.
•   Widen their responsibility and their relationship with colleagues, community, and other stakeholders in acquiring clear and obtainable  standards for knowledge , skills, and values that students are expected acquire.
•   Participate in the decision making in schools.
•   Use variety of teaching methods appropriate in the students learning.
•   Spend time in researching to update his or knowledge of the subject matter
•   Mentor new teachers.
•   Target the learners to be ready  in the challenges of todays learning.
•   Democratic in which teachers allow students to take responsibility in their learning.
•    Foster learner autonomy were students also learn to take responsibility.
•   Facilitator of learning.
•   Technology or digital literate

21^ST CENTURY TEACHERS

 Channel –teachers serve as channel in connecting the curriculum.

 Communicator –teachers can communicate with their students anytime and anywhere.

Learner -teachers never cease in learning new knowledge.

Futurist –they will deliver the lesson that help learners undestand the lesson  better.

Leaders –teachers are leading students  to the proper use of learning materials.

Exemplar –Teachers serves as model to his/her students.

Collaborator –Teachers are able to share and contribute knowledge to the learners.

STUDENTS OF THE EARLY GENERATIONS VS. STUDENTS OF THE 21^ST CENTURY

STUDENTS IN YERTERYEARS

•   Reciever of facts and information
•    Learning is based on repetition
•   Textbook users
•     Passive recipients of information 
•    Competitive learner
•     Factual thinkers
•    Unilateral thinkers
•     Inactive process of learning
•   Dependent learners
•     Single taskers
•   Single sensory input provider

STUDENTS OF THE 21^ST CENTURY
      

• Active creators knowledge
• Interactive knowledge constructor
• Internet uses to access a vast of information
• Collaborative learners
• Reflective , critical and creative thinkers
• Divergent thinkers
• Dynamic processess of learning
• Self-managing learners
• Multitaskers
• Multisensory input provider

INSTRUCTIONS IN THE EARLY GENERATIONS VS. INSTRUCTIONS IN THE 21^ST CENTURY

Lecture is an effective mode of instruction but may not be as effective as other pedagogies which would make teaching and learning more interesting , engaging, and would absolutely give students qualirty education and authentic learning.

CHARACTERISTICS OF TRADITIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

TRADITIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

•   Teacher-centered instruction
•   Single sense stimulation
•   Single path progression
•    Single medium
•    Isolated work 
•     Information delivery
•   Passive learning
•   Factual , knowledge-based learning
•   Reactive response
•   Isolated,artificial context

NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Student centered learning
•  Multisensory simulation
• Multipath progression
• Multimedia
•  Collaborative work
• Information exchange
• Active/exploratory/inquiry based learning
•   Critical thinking and informed decision making
• Proactive/planned action
• Authentic, real world context

THE 21^ST CENTURY SKILLS

1. Learning and innovation skills
2. Life and career skills
3. Information, Media, and Technology skills

6 KEY ELEMENTS FOR FOSTERING 21^st CENTURY LEARNING

1. Emphasize core subject
2. Emphasize learning skills
3. Use 21^st  century learning tools to develop learning skills
4. Teach and learn 21^st century context.
5. Teach and learn 21^st century content.
6. Use 21^st century assessments that measure 21^st century skills.

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MAKING MY LEARNING GOAL

1. What Characteristics do I possess in achieving the 21st century skills?

     The characteristics do I possess in achieving the 21st century skills is being good in everything, I want to have learning and innovation skills because it helps me to be more unique in terms of my teaching and my styles, the way I talk, the way I think to solve my own and others problem and be creative in my own works. I know that it is for my own growth for me to be an effective teacher soon. I want to have life and career skills because it helps me to have a sense of leadership and give me more confidence in whatever I do and lastly I want to know all of the information, media, and technology skills for my own benefit and my incoming students because it help to the both of us to engaged in teaching and learning process with the technologies.

2. What 21st century skills I need to develop?

The 21st century skills that I need to develop is the learning and innovation skills, I have my own learning and creativity of course but I want to develop it more because I think it is not enough to convince other people and to make them impress. I also want to develop the life and career skills specifically the flexibility, I want to enhance my flexibility and be flexible in every activities and task that are given to me to take all of my responsibility as siblings, as a student, and as a person in community that’s why I want to develop this two effective skills in 21st century.

3. How will I acquire the 21st century skills I need to develop? 

I will acquire the 21st century skills through practicing and applying it. I will read a book to acquire knowledge for the additional learning’s because according to “the man who reads is the man who leads, I will pursue to be a divergent thinker to enhance my innovation skills, and I will practice and learn how to divide my time to be flexible in order to have a time management in whatever I do.

4. What I wish to contribute in making my community and the world productive stronger and better in terms of economy and education?

     According to what I’ve said a while ago the one thing that I wish and I can contribute in making my community and the world be productive stronger and better in terms of economy and education is being a versatile person, as a future educator I want to improve and develop first myself for my own, through that all the learning’s and knowledge that I gained is able to share and benefit with one another until our community and whole world reach it. Being a versatile person is very important because if I am one of that knowledgeable and skillful person, I will be more useful to help and developed our community.

TEACHING AND LEARNING: Then and Now