Lesson 12 - Information Technology in Support of Student-Centered Learning

           In this lesson, we shall see now the teacher can expand his option to make himself more effective and relevant in the 21st millennium information age. In particular, the lesson shall respond to questions on student-centered learning approach, particular helps on designing and adapting students-learning activities shall be examined.
in addition, suggestion shall be made on how a student-centered classroom (SCL) can be supported by information technology (IT)

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

In college life students are not being spoon feed with all the informations that we needed to know and so as a student it is now our responsibility to research more about that certain topic with the help of IT. This is what i have experience in this present days.

reflection
The PC is a natural learning vehicle for cooperative learning. It advances participation and joint effort inside of understudies taking a shot at a same undertaking, likewise it creates energy and a feeling of having a place between individual inside of a gathering who offers a typical objective. Each individual is given an awareness of other's expectations to do his part in accomplishing the objective. Every obligation is critical for alternate individuals where every outcome is associated with one another to accomplish a decent general result. Social aptitudes are likewise create while understudies collaborate with one another, boosting their self - regard.

application

     SCL environment is very useful especially if a nation wants to progress and develop. There are some schools here in the Philippines who already adopted the SCL environment in instruction. Others object from it since they think that and SCL can be noisy and unwieldy.
          As we all know, in the traditional classroom, a teacher can discipline and manage his/her students. The teacher in that has always the first and final say in the lesson. But the difference is that in the traditional classroom, a student can sometimes feel intimidated and bored since it is always the voice of the teacher who echoes most of the time and leads the discussion. While in a SCL environment, it gives students the venue to interact with each other, be motivated as everyone can participate and enjoy. It can be as noisy as it is, but it gives the students independence and self-awareness. It does not mean that in a SCL, the teacher can no longer do classroom management. The teacher still is the one more knowledgeable than his/her students, but he do not anymore act as the teacher who do talking most of the times, but he/she is now a facilitator, open to ideas, problems and resolutions from his/her students. I believe that SCL is fun, memorable and healthy just like training or a workshop.