Section 1

(Integration of technology in instruction)

Chapter 1

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.