LESSON 11: THE COMPUTER AS THE TEACHER’S TOOL

THE COMPUTER AS THE TEACHER’S TOOL

What is computer for this generation? It is a technology use by human to impart knowledge to learner and give the essential of being genius of the human. It give the simplest of all things not just for fun but also but give purposes of the learners to become innovative and resourceful for the use of the computer. Computer also is a handy tool that you can carry wherever you are.

 Lesson 11 the computer as the teacher’s tool, it can fact support the constructivist and social constructivist paradigms of learning. The Constructivism was introduced by Piaget (1981) and Bruner (1990). They gave the stress to knowledge discovery of new meaning/concepts/principles in the learning process. The knowledge making the students engage in gathering unorganized information from which they can include ideas of they are doing.

                                                                                                        

Social Constructivism is the knowledge that governed by the society. The knowledge of learning affect from the society that surround us. It can influence the learning of the students. It focuses on integrating of the society where they live. Based on the two learning theories, the teacher can employ the computer as the information tool, a communication tool, a constructive tool, as co-constructive tool, and a situating tool.

The computer is the provider of information needed for the learner that we can call an information tool. It is the source where information gathered. Giving the fact that internet can serve as a channel for global communication and well be the key tool for video teleconferencing sessions. When the tool manipulating information, visualizing one’s understanding, and building new knowledge is called Constructive tool.

Co-constructive tool students can use to work cooperatively and construct a shared understanding of the new knowledge. On the other hand if the computer can create 3-D images on display to give the user the feeling that are situated in a virtual environment is called situating tools, it means of virtual reality (RS) extension system.    

                                                                           

Computer as the communication tool has been used in communication as evident by social networking sites, such as Facebook, twitter, Friendster and etc. With the use of computer the communication of people is easy to achieve rather than before.

            Today as the way of learning, the new generation of learners more attainable when the teachers use technology for teaching. As the application given by the technology, it help for educators to impart knowledge in an easy way of elaborating things. As I observe today, there are many application can we use to simplify things.

            Our teacher in Ed. Tech. 2 give us an assignment of application that can help us in a certain subjects that he gave us. That kind of application help for every learner and educator for their learning activity and enhance for their knowledge. We can say to it that is very helpful for every one of us because it’s easy to use and give the exact information we want.

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                        

            Today we can observe that the students need some kind of gadgets to give justification of their wants. As an educator you can introduce technology not just for fun but in the purpose for helping them to learn more by the used of computer. With the use of computer the learners can easy access the needs of their learning. Teachers guide the learners for giving information not for abusing technology with the hand of learners.