Crossover
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Crossover
is a
place for crossing from one side of something to the other. The
title of my blog came from story from the bible in the book of Joshua where the
Israelites crossover, from Egypt, the place where they suffered, going to the
Promise land that the God was given to them.
As a teacher of the 21st century, we are now on
our crossover, embracing the technology offers us through the use of computer. From
old teaching style, we are now going forward to our Promise land, the world on
which the learning will be more fun and productive. As a teacher we are the
first to step on that promise land and guide our learners to move up. Teachers,
let us now Crossover!
Friday, February 27, 2015
Technology:
Man’s Best Friend
When I’m on my first year of teaching, the first subject
that I taught was Science and Health. I still remember how hard it is for me to
explain how the different systems of the body performed. Because of that
encounter, I realized the important of having a laptop. That is why I asked my
parents to bought one for me. When I got my laptop I was very happy because I
am more confident that I can give the best learning that my pupils need and also for me to strengthen my
teaching abilities. By downloading videos on Youtube related to our topic, the
pupils enjoyed watching and learning. That is one of the help of technology in
my job.
As a teacher
I want to give my pupils the best learning that they need and to my employer
the contentment of my service. Let me share with you some situation in my job
that the technology helps me the most.
Before it is hard for me to compute the grades of my
pupils, my fingers were aching in pressing the calculator. I also spend lots of
time in computing it manually but when I learn how to use excel, how to compute
the grades using it, it is easier. You just need to drag down the first
computation for it to compute all the scores of your pupils. Now, I’ll just
enter all the grades on the excel sheet and then their grades will automatically
appears.
On my first teaching in public school my principal
told me to used semi-detailed lesson plan for the whole day. I was thinking
that time that if I will write it daily, it will consume most of my time and
also energy. Of course I’m not lazy; I’ll just want to lessen my work. If there
is a way to make it easier then let us choose that way. J So I asked her permission to print semi-detailed
lesson plan. So every weekend I print my expected lesson plan for the whole
week. So I can have more time in other activities.
Technology opens a lot of opportunity in my teaching
career. It really makes me more productive as a teacher and as a person. It
helps me to type test papers and other paper works in the school. It also helps
me to download the requirements online. Technology is also a ladder for me to
be blessings to the schools were I employed. In one of small schools in Cuyapo,
the technology helps me to make their first school newsletter through the use
of Microsoft Publisher. Technology also helps me to explore my talents, using
moviemaker I directed a short movie that the pupils played when one private
school celebrated their Anniversary. I know it is not perfect but I really felt
happy when I saw the reaction of the pupils and also their parents that they
saw their children acted on a short movie.
Technology also teaches me to search for more and to
learn more. Technology opens a big gate for more opportunity, more development
and productivity on our job also in our lives.It is really a big assistance for
us and makes our work easier. Technology is man’s best friend.
Computer Technology: The New Face of
Philippine Education
Filipino culture places a high value on education. For the majority of the
Filipinos, the only best thing for a child to
acquire and secure a better future is through education. So, they want more effective
education system. (Arimbuyutan, 2007)
Because of the use of computer, we find ourselves in the midst of a powerful information revolution.
Combined with the significant restructuring in education occurring in this
country, the way we handle computer in the classroom is changing as well. (Forcier, 1999)
An article in the newspaper said that computer
can be a teaching aid for the educator, a partner in schools’ activities
especially in paper work. Also through it, the educator can easily visualize
and explain topics to the learners. (Education and Culture Journal–ICT , 2011)
Education
Secretary Jesli Lapus recently called on education officials not to resist change and instead optimize the power of
technology to make quality education accessible to as many learners
anytime, anywhere. Lapus said that more than the limited resources,
the resistance to change is the
main obstacle in taking full advantage of technology in Philippine education.
“Our fear for change prevents us from moving forward. It limits us to the same solutions—solutions that have not given us the desired output we so desperately need at this critical hour,” Lapus noted. (DepEd teachers Blog\News\Opinion\LEt Results\Event, 2008)
main obstacle in taking full advantage of technology in Philippine education.
“Our fear for change prevents us from moving forward. It limits us to the same solutions—solutions that have not given us the desired output we so desperately need at this critical hour,” Lapus noted. (DepEd teachers Blog\News\Opinion\LEt Results\Event, 2008)
According
to a survey, Filipino schoolchildren are computer literate as almost
three-fourths (74%) have access to the Internet. But schoolchildren in the
Visayas and Metro Manila have greater access than their counterparts in the
Cordilleras and Mindanao as approximately 9 out of 10 schoolchildren in these
areas are Internet users. (Sarmiento K, 2007)
The latest Synovate Media Atlas study conducted nationwide from July 2008 to
June 2009 reported that Internet access in the Philippines stands at 40 percent
with the younger segment turned out to be the highest at 60 percent.In the
Greater Manila area, 46 percent of respondents have access. Data was gathered
from 8,028 respondents aged between 15 and 64 across all socioeconomic groups. (Sarmiento K, 2007) Because of these information,
truly the computer invaded the education and trying to make the learning more
easier and more accessible anytime and anywhere. The is why the computer is now
a new face of education. It is possible that more of the learner will undergo
into an online education specially those students that is far from the school
proper.
Online
education seems to be a relatively positive development for learning and
teaching, although it certainly raises some questions about how it might affect
individuals, organizations, and society overall. It should open up new
opportunities for students and teachers as well as educational institutions. (Kearsley,
2000)
The first part of the twenty-first century has produced the first visions
of a fifth generation—based on autonomous agents and intelligent,
database-assisted learning—that we refer to as the educational Semantic Web.
Note that each of these generations has followed more quickly upon its
predecessor than the previous ones. Moreover, none of these generations has
completely displaced previous ones, so that we are left with diverse yet viable
systems of distance education that use all five generations in combination. Thus,
the field can accurately be described as complex, diverse, and rapidly
evolving.
However, acknowledging complexity does not excuse inaction. Distance
educators, students, administrators, and parents are daily forced to make
choices regarding the pedagogical, economic, systemic, and political
characteristics of the distance education systems within which they
participate. To provide information, knowledge, and, we hope, a measure of
wisdom, the authors of this text have shared their expertise, their vision,
their concerns, and their solutions to distance education practice in these
disruptive times.
Often, potential learners will seek out online learning opportunities to
create or enhance career goals. As educators, we may want to view the
educational experience outside the context of career development, but as stated
previously, the learning experience is not about us. The fact is that learners
bring that context to their educational decisions, and we need to understand
that they do so. Online resources designed to assist learners to determine
their own interests and skills, and then provide a career map aligned with educational
programs, is a reasonable expectation. After all, most of these learners will
experience several career changes—some of them quite significant—throughout
their working lives ( Terry Anderson,
Fathi Elloumi , 2004)
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