lesson 11: the computer as teacher's tool
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Bicol UniversityCollege of Agriculture and Forestry
Lesson 11: The Computer as Teacher's Tool
Judith C. NapucaoIII-BAT-ATE 2
Bachelor in Agricultural Technology Major in Agricultural Technology Education
We saw the computer can act as a tutor,
particularly along a behaviorist and
cognitivist approach to learning. We also saw how computer
programs have been developed to foster
higher thinking skills and creativity.
We shall again look at the computer, but this time from another perspective the computer as the teacher's handy-
tool.In fact it can support the constructivist and social constructivist paradigms of
learning.
Constructivism was introduced by
Piaget (1891) and Bruner (1990). They
gave stress to knowledge
discovery new meaning
/concepts/principles in the learning
process.
Various strategies have been suggested to foster knowledge
discovery, among these, is making students engaged in
gathering unorganized information from which they
can induce ideas and principles.
While knowledge is constructed by individual learner in constructivism, knowledge can also be socially
constructed. Social constructivism is an effort to show that the construction of knowledge is governed by social,
historical, and cultural contexts.
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Students build knowledge influenced by the social context and the learning
strategies here is the exchange and share , form
ideas that stimulates thinking. Students discuss and discover meanings.
The Computers Capabilities
Computer can provide access to information, foster creative social knowledge-building
and enhance the communication of the
achieved project package.
Without computer, today's learners may still be
assuming tedious tasks of low-level information
gathering, building and new knowledge packaging. But this is not so, the modern
computer can help teacher-and-students to focus on
more high cognitive level.
Based on the two learning theories , the teacher can
employ the computer as a/an :
Informative ToolThe computer can provide vast amounts of information in various forms such as text, graphics, sounds, and video.
The internet itself provides an enormous database from which user can access global information resources that includes the latest news, weather forecasts, airline schedule, sports development, entertainment news as well as educational information directly useful to learners.
The Computer Room in MORMS.
Communication Tool
Given the fact that the Internet can serve as a channel for global communication, the computer can very well be the key tool for video teleconferencing sessions.
Constructive ToolThe computer itself can be used for manipulating information, visualizing one's understanding, and building new knowledge.
The Microsoft Word computer programs
itself is a desktop publishing software
that alloows users to organize and present
their ideas in attractive formats.
Co-constructive Tool
One way of co-construction is the use
of the electronic whiteboard where students may post notices to a shared
document/whiteboard.
The Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE) is an example of an integrated environment developed by the
Ontario Institute for Education. Within CSILE, students can enter their ideas in notes and
respond to each other's ideas.
Manifest in the students generated database are higher level thinking process-explaining, problem solving/finding, expertise and development, literacy improvement.
Situating Tool
By means of virtual reality (RS) extension systems, the computer can
create 3-D images on display to give the user the feeling that are situated in a
virtual environment.
A flight simulation programs is an example of a situating tool which places the user in a simulated flying environment. Multi-User Domains or Dungeons (MUDS), MUD Object Oriented (MOOs) and Multi-User Shared Hallucination ( MUSHs) are examples
of situating systems. MuDs and MOOs are mainly text-based virtual reality environments on the Internet. When the users log to a MOO environment , they may interact with the virtual reality through simple text-based commands.
A school-to-school or classroom-to-
classroom environment is
possible whereby the user can
choose to walk around the
campus, talk with other users who are logged to the
same site.
To caution user, the computer as a situating tool is news and still
undergoing further research and development.
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Activity : • Log on Singapore's History City Learning community (http://www.is.nuss.sg/RND/cs/idl/HistoryCity/overview.html)
Try History City's activities of collecting, trading, and creating interactive dioramas. Report your experience to the class.
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