Information Technology in Support of Student-Centered Learning

•The idea of Student-Centered of Learning is not a recent idea.

•John Dewey, 20th Century

•Educators argue for highly active and individualized pedagogical methods which place the student at the center of the teaching-learning process.

THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM

•Classrooms are usually arranged with neat columns and rows of student chairs.

•The teacher stands in front of the classroom or sits behind his/her desk.

•This maintains discipline and helps the teacher to control classroom activities.

•They often make students take time to work individually on worksheets.

•Developing students to be independent learners with the end of making them critical and creative thinkers.

•John Dewey Described traditional learning as a process in which the teacher pours information to students. “Pouring water from jug into cups”. •Direct instruction in which the teacher must perform his role of teaching so that learning can occur.

Traditional Classroom

THE SCL CLASSROOM

• Putting students first.• It is contrast to teacher-centered learning. • Student-centered learning is focused on the student's

needs, abilities, interests, and learning styles with the teacher as a facilitator of learning.

Teacher-centered learning has the teacher at its center in role and students in a passive, receptive role. Student-centered learning requires students to be active, responsible participants in their own learning.

Desiring to gain effectiveness, efficiency and economy in administration and instruction, schools in developed economies have also adapted the support of ICTs.

The new school classroom environment is characterized by student individually or in groups:

• Performing computer word processing for a text or graph presentation

• Preparing power point presentation• Searching for information on the internet• Brainstorming on ideas, problems, and project plans as

needed, the teacher facilitating instruction, also gives individualized instruction to serve individual needs.

The SCL Classroom

Ways in which technology can help facilitate a student-centered classroom:

•Empower the learner•Adopt technological tools in the classroom to teach•Making the student responsible for his own learning•Subjecting students to regular evaluation

Prepared by: Castrillo, Maecy A. Lucero, Ann Dominique C.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING.