Gingoog
City Colleges
Professional
Education
Education Technology 1 & 2
Test 1 (Essay)
1. The film, video, and the TV are indeed very powerful. Cite
possible advantages and disadvantages of these media.
Below are the possible advantages and disadvantages of film,
video, and the TV:
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Parameters
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Advantages
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Disadvantages
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FILM
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Simulate interest in learning
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Time consuming
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Address multiple intelligences
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Costly
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Provides Visual Effects
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Pornographic scenery
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VIDEO
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YouTube videos which are catching to the
millennials.
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Crime and Violence Scene
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It can easily distribute to any smart
phones.
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Technical difficulties
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It can easily download via smart phones.
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Some information are based on hoax and fake
news
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TV
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Provide interactive educational shows
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Crime and Violence Scene
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Offers diversified topics such as (English –
Apple; Science – Siniskwela; History-Bayani; ESP-HirayaManawari/Once Upon a
Time; etc.)
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Older model of Television (TV) is a Cathode
Ray Tube (CRT) which is destructive to the eyes of the students.
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Easy to preview or repeat the confused
parts.
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Other scenery which needs Parental Guidance.
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2. Why future teachers must develop the Art of Questioning?
Art of
questioning is part of the pedagogical method of the teacher in delivering and
attacking the lessons so that the students will be motivated in acquiring the
knowledge and skills needed to be achieved so that the objectives of the lesson
are realized.
The teacher
should develop the “Art of Questioning” so that he/she can facilitate learning,
develop mastery towards his/her students and importantly he/she can assess
his/her students learning by way of asking them a series of questions. The questioning must promote holistic development
of a child and must develop their way of thinking and answering easy to
critical questions. The series of
questions should be the key elements to know whether or not the students or
student got the objective of the lessons.
In forming the questions; it should be easy to difficult as well as it
is fun – this makes questioning is an art in itself.
In developing or
formulating the “Art of Questioning” the teacher must bear in mind that
questions are considered as instructional cues or stimuli that convey to the students
with the content elements to be learned and directions for what they are to do
and how they are to do it. This calls
for the teachers’ careful planning and making of questions. Questions should play a central role in the
learning process and should not very hard enough that the students will fear
their subject teacher. Because of this, the
teachers and I myself as future educators need to carefully plan our questions
in order to guide the students toward further inquiry and a deeper
understanding of the concepts being stressed. In other words, we need to teach
them how to think about thinking or meta-cognition with critical, logical, and
creative way in exposing the students to a culture of rational being which can
be able to answer easy and critical questions through the art of good
questioning.
3. Explain the vital role or how important for a teacher to be
skillful in constructing Test Questioning.
In
planning and creating skillful test constructions or in making questions to
assess the students learning; the teachers play a vital role with this
regard. The teacher should ask questions
or make a test of a topic that had been already discuss. The test should be based on the Bloom’s
Taxonomy of knowledge; so that the students can acquire knowledge,
comprehension, application, synthesis and evaluate the information for them to
think critically.
The
teacher should make item analysis based on the results of students taking the
test. Test analysis is the statistical
process that would regulate the item per questions neither too easy nor
difficult with respect to the average type of students. The role of the teacher in sorting the items whether
or not it is good item or should be discarded and changed is a very hustle and
tiring task on the part of the teacher; but the dedication in giving and making
the test standardize is part of the noble job of being a teacher.
The
teacher also observed avoiding grammatical errors in constructing test
questioners; especially the context cues and patterned-answers. Indeed the role of the teachers in
constructing a skillful test questioner is not as easy as the case maybe; but
is very challenge by which the teacher must develop the knowledge in
statistical tools to be able to create standardize test questioner.
4. Explain briefly each of the following key elements of
constructivist approach, namely:
a. The teacher creating the learning environment.
b. The teacher giving students the tools and facilities, and
c. The teacher facilitating learning
Constructivist approach in teaching is progressive method of
teaching in which instead of memorizing something by force, actively try a
concept out; such as:
§ Hands-on
approach to learning
§ Teaching
students how to learn (Meta-Cognition)
§ Making
meaning our of the information based on hands-on activities and reflection
A. The teacher creating the learning environment.
The functions of the teacher in creating the learning environment in
a constructivist approach are the following:
§ Teacher
serves as facilitator
§ Teacher
must plan activities in advance
§ Teacher
should create activities that help students explore the concepts
§ Teacher
must be patient and active at the same time
§ Teacher
should teach the students how to become lifelong leaders
§ Assessing
students’ activities
§ Teacher
should ask a guiding questions
§ Reflecting
on the information and making meaning out of it
§ Help
students stay on-topic and help them conceptualized their reflections
B. The teacher giving students the tools and facilities, and
The responsibilities of the teacher in giving his/her students the
tools, facilities and other materials needed in conducting the lesson using the
constructivist method are the following”
§ The
teacher should prepare on hand the materials needed
§ The
teacher let the students discover and actively making meaning based on the
activity of the lesson
§ Materials
should be easy to use or user friendly and safety
§ Teacher
walks around helping (in minor way only) the students
C. The teacher facilitating learning
When the teacher facilitates learning using the constructivist
approach; he/she should follow the 5 E Models namely:
§ Engage
– the teacher should let his/her students engage in an actual hands-on activity
§ Explore
– the teacher then let his/her students to explore the activity of the class
§ Explain
– the teacher then ask the students to explain what they have known based on
the activity
§ Elaborate
– the teacher then will help the students to further elaborate the topics or
key elements of the given activities
§ Evaluate
– the teacher now will give individual or group activity to measure the
students acquisitions of knowledge and skills
6. The psychologist Lev Vygotsky stressed that learning affected by
social influences. Agree or disagree? Of
you agree, what does it mean? If you
disagree, why?
Lev Vygostsky authored the “Zone of
Proximal Development” (ZPD) in which he stress-out that the difference between
what a learner can do without help, and what they can't do. According to Lev Vygostky, “the person
learning the skill set cannot complete it without the assistance of the teacher
or peer; then teacher helps the student attain the skill the student is trying
to master, until the teacher is no longer needed for that task.” Hence it is very evident that the role of the
teacher, parent and the society as a whole affect greatly the learning
acquisition of the child.
It is respectfully submitted that I am
agree to the idea of Lev Vygostky because I believe based on my experience that
the society molded her constituent. The
concept of “scaffolding” in which it refers to the guidance or actual
teaching-learning experience by the child received by him/her adult mentor is
the very essence that the society greatly take parts in molding the mind,
attitude, skills and perception of the students.
Scaffolding is a process through which
a teacher or a more competent peer helps a student in their ZPD as necessary
and tapers off this aid as it becomes unnecessary—much as workers remove a
scaffold from a building after they complete construction. "Scaffolding
[is] the way the adult guides the child's learning via focused questions and
positive interactions (Balaban, 1995).
The sources of
social influences are parents, teachers, peers, society and even the internet
social media flat-forms (e.g. Facebook, Tweeter, Youtube, Instagram, etc.);
which greatly influences the mind of our millennials. Now, society itself evolved fromtangible
aspect of reality into virtual reality due to the advent of internet. The internet serves as the media of
“Scaffolding” where students learned methods outside the four corners of the
classroom.
Experience tells
us that that learning affected by social influences. Social influence starts in the family and
evolves in much diversified knowledge; attitude, and skills (KAS) found in the
social media flat-forms.
Lorevic E. Pelenio
