The idea of students
centered learning is not a recent idea. In fact, as early as the 20th
century, educational educators such as John Dewey argued for a highly active
and individualized pedagogical methods which place the students at the center
of the teaching-learning process.
It may be observe that
after spending so many minutes in lesson presentation and class management,
students can get restless and fidgety. Often enough, the teacher has to misbehavior
in class as students starts to talk among themselves or simply stare away in
lack of attention. To prevent this situation, teachers often make students take
time to work individually on worksheets can help the situation.
The Traditional Classroom
It may be observed that classroom are usually arranged with neat columns and rows of student chairs, while the teacher stands in front of the classroom or sits behind his desk. This situation is necessitated by the need to maintain classroom discipline, also to allow the teacher to control classroom activities through lecture presentation and teacher-led discussion.
The SCL
Classroom
In industrialize societies we find
knowledge-based economies in which workers depend on information that can be
accessed through information and communication technologies (ICT's). Desiring
to gain effectiveness, efficiency and economy in administration and
instruction, schools in these developed economies have also adopted
the support of ICT's. Their students have now become active not passive
learners, who can interact with other learners, demonstrating independence and
self-awareness in the learning process.
Generally
the new school classroom environment is characterized by student individually
or in groups:
- Performing computer word processing for text or graph presentations
- Preparing power-point presentation
- Searching for information on the Internet
- Brainstorming on ideas, problems and project plans
- As needed, the teacher facilitating instruction, also giving individualized instruction to serve individual needs.
Experience
Well, I’m sure that most
students had experience doing some research in the internet and preparing
presentation in the Powerpoint to be presented in class and by doing such
things students creativity and knowledge in the topic is tested and because
they are the one doing this, the level of retention is high compared to the
lecture method being used in the class.
Reflection
In actual classroom
setting, to be able to get the interest of the students, it is very important
to make the class an interactive one and teacher must vary hi/her own teaching
strategies to avoid boredom. Now, because technology is already integrated in teaching
those passive learners will become an active learners and this is done by doing
activities wherein students will be the one who are going to create their own
outputs.
Application
Most school nowadays have
their own computer room and lesson about the computer is already part of the
instructions. But because of the demands of the society students nowadays are
computer literate and they are somewhat more advance compared to the older
generations. Moreover, because of the presence of the computer, learning ca be
made easy because students can freely research in advance and search the net
for more additional information.
Reference:
Lucido, P. I. (2012). Educational Technology 2. LORIMAR PUBLISHING INC.
Lucido, P. I. (2012). Educational Technology 2. LORIMAR PUBLISHING INC.
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