1. Explain the important development in each period of the history of Technology.
Prior to technology, word of mouth communication was the only type of education that existed. From the hunter-gatherer communities to the invention of agriculture, beginning 10,000 years ago, people depended on word of mouth communication to acquire vast knowledge of the plants, animals, and land on which they depended. The first examples of Educational Technology in the ancient world were the tools that students and teachers used for writing. Over thousands of years and across the continents, various surfaces have been used as medium for writing, including wax-covered writing boards, clay tablets, strips of bark from trees, thick palm-like leaves and parchment. By the end of the Middle Ages, and after the invention of printing, schools would eventually become common in many towns and villages across Europe, with the main intention being to ensure children could read and write. Then in the 15 th century, schools had more or less become the education system that can be recognized today. By the mid-1600s, the modern library and the pencil were introduced, marking the first examples of educational technology. The 19th century marked the advent of textbooks and improvements of writing tools available to teachers and students, notably blackboards and chalk, as well as the use of ink pen rather than just pencil.
2. Cite situations to show the importance of technology in:
General- technological advancements helped to the people to have easy access and convenient life because of the creation of some technologies like cellphones, gadgets, appliances and machines. It benefited all of us. Education- printing press, projector, and gadgets are very useful to students and teachers. Without these we will have inconvenient studies especially in our situation now. We need technologies to still operate classes and without these we can never have school year 2020-2021. Business- businesses operates because of technologies. That is why it is so important. For example, restaurants or call centers. Restaurants will have a tough time cooking without kitchen appliances and call centers can’t operate without computers and other technologies. At home- in this crisis, cellphone is useful on ordering food deliveries to avoid going out. Television is important to watch news and have an updates about the daily news about everything. Military Field/office- walkie-talkies is part of technological advancements which are very usable on their work. Computers also to store the important documents of crimes and other files. You as a student- as a student, phones and laptop is really important for encoding outputs and online classes. To know updates about what is going on.
3. Explain how flipped learning reshapes the classroom.
In flipped learning, we can also use TVs and videos prepared by the teachers. It is happening now because of the health crisis which means classrooms are of no use for now and homes serve as the new educational environment of the students. Teachers sends practice exercises along with the modules to study and the students answers it at home. That’s how flipped learning reshapes the classroom.
4. As a future teacher, what are your plans to avoid negative effects/disadvantages of
technology in school? Explain. As a future teacher, I will limit my students on using technologies for their learning. I won’t give them practices that will need technologies and just provide them everything that they’ll need. Printed modules and exercises and just give them less time on researches. Sustain them enough knowledge about the lesson that they won’t need to research more information. I will also educate them how badly technologies can affect them f overused. And encourage other teachers to also do the same and think some techniques to avoid their students use technologies longer.