The Roles of Educational

Technology Learning Prepared by: Clemeña, Banjo T. Paradero, Renalyn

EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

Traditional RoleConstructivist

Way

-as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons

-the learner learns the content presented by the technology in the same way that the learner learns knowledge presented by the teacher

-partners in the learning process

-helps the learner build more meaningful personal interpretations

-it makes the learner gather, think, analyze information and construct meaning with what technology presents

-from traditional point of view, technology serves as source and presenter of knowledge

-it is assumed that “knowledge is embedded in the technology”, and technology presents that knowledge to the student. (David H. Jonassen, et al, 1999)

-INTERNET have dominated the role of technology in the classroom

-from the constructivist point of view, educational technology serves as learning tools

Roles of Technology in Learning;In Constructivist Perspective

(Jonassen, et al 1999)

as tools to support knowledge construction;

as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing;

as context to support learning by doing;

as social medium to support learning by conversing;

as intellectual partner to support learning-by-reflecting;

-for representing learners’ ideas, understandings and beliefs

-for producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases by learners

-for accessing needed information

-for comparing perspectives, beliefs and world views

-for representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems, situations and contexts

-for representing beliefs, perspectives, arguments and stories of others

-for defining safe, controllable problem space for student thinking

-for collaborating with others

-for discussing, arguing, and building consensus among members of a community

-for supporting discourse among knowledge building communities

-for helping learners to articulate and represent what they know-for reflecting on what the have learned and how they came to know it-for supporting learners ‘internal negotiations and meaning making-for constructing personal representations of meaning-for supporting mindful thinking

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