Assignment in Prelim

SUBJECT                 : EDTECH 2

ASSIGNMENT #      : 1

DEADLINE                : SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2013 ON OR BEFORE 12MIDNIGHT

INSTRUCTIONS:

BRIEFTLY ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

1) Educators living in developing or peasant economies, objections are likely to be heard such as, that the use of the computer is time-consuming and expensive. Besides there is also the danger of a technology-centered classroom along the fear that computers may soon replace teachers.

Q: Being a future educator, what is your stand on this?

         Being a future educator or a teacher, Yes , I agree that using the computer is time-consuming and expensive to a student in the classrooms because to have a computer it is very important to us how to know using a computer and it is a comportable to the student/ learners to learn more information, but it can be a disadvantage to student because they focuses to the computer and sometimes their studies can affect, also the old way of teaching will be gone.

2) It is helpful to see useful models of school learning that is ideal in achieving instructional goals through preferred application of educational technology.

Q: Cite different models of learning and briefly describe each.

Transmission Model

•          Assumes that learning is mainly dependent on the teacher

•          Teaching is accomplished by telling

•         Learning is through repetition; the learner is a passive container, waiting to be filled with knowledge, but possibly not receiving the knowledge because of a block.

Constructivist Model

•          Assumes that knowledge is built up by the student in the form of connected schemes, and that what is taught is only one, and not necessarily the most important one, of many factors which influence this process.
•          Constructivists see students as agents in their own learning. What they have come to know arises through active construction of concepts in making sense of their experiences.

3) Educational Technology 2 is concerned with " Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning".

Q. Comment on this.

                
                 Now a days, computer are part for the learners so that by using this they can develop more knowledge and they can also hands-on by using this and they know what are the part, the functions and all about computer.