Lesson 5: Preferences of the Technology Generation

Text vs Visuals

• The technology or digital generation has greater affinity to visuals compared with text.

Linear vs Hypermedia

• The new generation follows a personal random access to hyperlinked digital information.

Independent vs Social Learner

• New generation are already acquainted with digital tools that adopt to both with personal and participative work.

Learning to Do vs Learning to Pass the Test

• The digital learners simply wish to acquire skills, knowledge, and habits

Delayed Rewards vs Instant Gratification

• The digital learners experience more gratification through immediate scores from games, enjoyable conversation from webcam calls, excitement from email, and inviting comments from Facebook friends.

Rote Memory vs Fun Learning

• Digital learners prefer fun learning.

Lesson 4: Bridging the Generation Gap

Generation X

• birth years ranging from the early to mid-1960s and ending birth years ranging from the late 1970s up to early 1980s.

Generation Y (also known as Millenials) 

• 1980s as the starting birth years and ending birth years ranging from the mid-1990s up to early 2000s.

Generation Z 

• birth years ranging from the mid-1990s to early 2000s; widespread usageof the internet from a young age.

Older Generation vs Younger Generation

• Manner of dressing

• Socialization

• Friendship

• Marrying

Difficult to Overcome

Caste system in India

Pre-arranged marriages in China

Female circumcision in Africa

In the Field of Education

Developed countries vs third world countries

Modern vs traditional

Public vs private

Future shock

• It is book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. In the book, Toffler defines the term “future shock” as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire entities. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of “too much change in too short period of time”

To Bridge the Digital Gap

• The need to understand the potentials of ICT
• Technology supported skills need to be taught in school

If the school fails to respond to emergent changes and needs…

• The new learner may lose appreciation of the educational system.
• The increase of drop-out rate every year.

Lesson 3: Understanding Technology Learners

• Twitter – online news and social networking sites

• Youtube – video sharing website

• Facebook – social networking site

• LinkedIn – business and employment oriented social networking site

• Instagram – online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking site

• Pinterest – content sharing site

• Flickr – image hosting and videohosting site

• Share – share a resource is to make joint use of it

• Feed – provide users with frequently updated content

• Skype – provide video chat and voice call services

Technology / Digital Learner

• spend much time talking with friends on their call

• send text messages

• interact through social media

• play video games

• surf the world wide web

Jean Piaget's Traditional Learning Chart

• First two years – susceptible minds
• Six years – acquiring communication skills
• Teenage years – traditional concrete thinking
• Adult years – abstract thinking and linking

Multitasking

• performing task simultaneously.

Lesson 2: Overview of Educational Technology 2

Educational Technology 2

• concerned with “Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning.”

• For learners: to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend knowledge and skills so that they can become exemplary users of educational technology.

• For student-teachers and professional teachers: to update their knowledge of educational technology.

• involved a deeper understanding of the computer as well as hands-on application of computer skills.
• aims to infuse technology in the students-teachers training, helping them adapt and meet rapid and continuing technological changes, particularly in global ICT environment.
• used Information Technology to improve not only instruction but the school management program and curriculum.

Learning Objectives of Educational Technology 2

• To provide education in the use of technology in instruction.
• To impart  learning experience in instructional-technology supported instructional planning.
• To acquaint students on IT related theories with the computer as tutor
• To learn to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources
• To engage learners on practical technology integration issues
• To inculcate higher-level thinking skills and creativity among students while providing them knowledge of IT-related learning theories

Lesson 1: Review of Educational Technology 1

Educational Technology 

• the application of technology in the educative process that takes place in the educational institutions.

Four Phases of Application of Technology

• setting of learning objectives
• designing specific learning experience
• evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experience
• revising teaching-learning process for improving future instructional activities

Three Domains of Learning

• Cognitive - head
• Affective - heart
• Psychomotor - hand

Technology in education 

• is the application of technology in the operation of educational institution.

Instructional technology 

• refers to the aspects of educational technology that are concerned with instructions.

Technology integration 

• is using learning technologies to introduce, supplement, and extend skills.

Roles of Technology in Learning         

• Technology as tools to support knowledge construction
• Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge
• Technology as context to support earning-by-doing
• Technology as a social medium to support learning-by-conversing
• Technology as an intellectual partner to support earning-by-reflecting

Learning Objectives of Educational Technology 1

• To orient the learner of educational technology in society
• To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media for teaching-learning process
• To uplift the learner to human learning through the use of learning technology
• To impart skills in planning, designing, using, and evaluating the technology-enriched teaching-learning process
• To acquaint learners on basic aspects of community education
• To introduce the learner to what it recognize as the third revolution in education, the computer.