Technology In Education

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The advancement of technology in the classroom exemplifies the paradigm shift in education from teacher centered to student centered. As mentioned by Dr. Ray Clifford in 1983 (as cited by Wheeler 2013), technology will not replace teachers but teachers who do not use technology in teaching will be replaced. Teachers nowadays must be adept in using technology in teaching. Since the year 2000, during the advocacy on ICT integration, the spread of computers and learning technology and the advent of the internet, tablets, smartphones and interactive whiteboards have been observed. At this interactive age, teachers are facing the demands of the Generation Z learners. These learners are multitasked and can use multi-tools simultaneously. These…show more content…
However, this is not easy to attain because a teacher teaches 30-60 students of diverse learning abilities at the same time. Due to this problem, a teacher has to look for ways to make his teaching more effective. An alternative that the teacher ought to consider is the use of instructional materials that would provide valuable instructional aids and tools that most teachers can use. Every learner, being unique differs from his fellow learners in interest, abilities and social effectiveness. There are learners who have difficulty in learning and there are those who are bored by the task that does not challenge their learning capacities. Gone are the days when students only parroted facts and never given the opportunity to apply what they have learned. The idea that students do better and learn faster when left alone to work on their own has been overlooked. With the advent of technology, enlightened teaching resources play a vital role in the teaching and learning…show more content…
Dulay (2015) mentioned in her study the report of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) that we ranked 36th in both Science and Mathematics tests out of 38 countries in TIMSS 1999. In 2003, 4th-grade students ranked 23rd out of 25 and 8th-grade students ranked 42nd out of 45 participating countries. Subsequently in 2011, fifty-four countries and 20 other education systems participated in TIMSS. The Philippines, however, did not participate in the international study for the year 2007 and 2011. The performance in the National Achievement Test (NAT) is also below 50 percent in so many schools. The NAT for high school was 46.38 percent in SY 2009-2010, still a slight decrease from 47.40 percent in SY 2008-2009. In 2013, the goal of 75% seems elusive at this point according to the National Education Testing and Research Center. Fr. Bienvenido F. Nebres, S.J. in his presentation on Building a Science Culture (NAST 2007), citing Talisayon presented that even Philippine Science High School performs only at the mean of
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