CHAPTER 3

Importance of
Educational Technology
Seven Benefits of Technology

in Education
Instructional Effectiveness
Active Learning
Critical Thinking
Cooperative Learning
Communication Skills
Multisensory Delivery
Multicultural Education
Seven Benefits of Technology

in Education
Instructional
Effectiveness –
Multimedia
instruction can be
an increase in
student
achievement.
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in Education
Active Learning –
Interactive
technologies supply
stimulating
environments that
encourage student
involvement in the
learning Process
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in Education
Critical Thinking –
Technology can design
exercises to enrich their
thinking skills, making
decisions, and testing the
credibility of such
decision through
reflective and reasonable
thinking.
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in Education
Cooperative Learning
– These condition will
uplift the ego of the
slow learners and give a
sense of achievement
among the bright ones
through helping others
improve their learning.
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in Education
Communication
Skills – Exposure to
good and correct
grammar will enable
them to get used to
speaking and proper
communication
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 Seven Benefits of Technology

in Education
Multisensory Delivery –
Technology supplies
information through
multiple sensory channels,
allowing the students with
various learning styles to
assimilate and apply
knowledge.
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 Seven Benefits of Technology

in Education
Multicultural
Education – Expand
classroom “walls” and
link students and
teachers in national
and international
exchanges
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Importance of Technology in
Schools
Children-conversant with technology
show improvements in their writing,
reading, and math skills.
Technology has also contributed to the
decrease in drop out rates, improvement
in student attendance and enhancement
in their learning abilities.
Technology in school benefits the
children during their higher education.
Computers can offer livelier explanations of
various subjects.
The inclusion of technology in the process of
learning makes learning an enjoyable activity,
thus inviting greater interest from the kids.
The knowledge from the all around the world
can be better brought about for the children
and can be better assimilated by them.
The administration processes, the official
procedures of school can be simplified by
means of technology.
The data pertaining to the school
employees and students can effectively be
stored in a school database.
The school could have a library system,
which, by the utilization of technology,
can be maintained in an efficient manner.
On similar line, the attendance records of
the pupils and teachers can be maintained
by means of a student database.
Moreover, The school can host a website
of its own, holding information about the
school.
 Importance of Educational
Technology in Learning
1. Technology provides important tools to support
knowledge construction for presenting learners’
ideas, understandings and belief and for producing
organized, multimedia knowledge bases for learners.
2. Technology serves as information vehicles for
exploring knowledge to support learning-by-
constructing.
3. Technology is important when used for comparing
perspectives, beliefs, and world views.
Technology as context is important
to support learning by doing as:
1. Representing and simulating meaningful real-
world problems, situations and context.

2. Representing beliefs, perspectives, arguments,

and stories of others.

3. Defining safe, controllable problem space for

student thinking.
Technology as a social medium is important
to support learning by conversing through:
1. Collaborating with others.

2. Discussing, arguing, and building consensus

among members of the community.

3. Supporting discourse among knowledge

building communities.
Technology as an Intellectual partner
through:
1. Helping learners to articulate and represent
what they know reflecting on what they have
learned and how they come to know it.

2. Supporting learners’ internal negotiations and

meaning making.

3. Constructing personal representations of

meaning for supporting mindful thinking.
READING MATERIALS AND REFERENCES
PRINT
• Tabada, E. V. &Buendia, M. (2015) Educational Technology 1, Adriana Publishing CO.INC.
• Ballado, Ronato S. (2012) Basic Concepts in Educational Technology 1.(1st Ed.) REX Printing Company Inc., Quezon City,
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• Lucido, P. & Corpus B.(2012) Educational Technology 1, 2nd Edition. Lorimar, Publishing Co.
• Lucido, P. & Corpus B.(2012) Educational Technology 2, Quezon City. Lorimar, Publishing Co.
• Newby, T.J. (2011) Educational Technology for Teaching and Learning (4th Edition), Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
• Dahiya, Surender S. (2004) Educational Technology Towards Better Teacher Performance. Shipra Publication: New Delhi
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• Heirich, R. (2003). Instructional media and technologies for learning (7th edition) Upper Saddle, New York: Merrill Prentice
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• Lucido, Paz I., and Milagros L. Borado. (1997). Educational Technology. Katha Publishing Co., Inc. Quezon City,
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NON-PRINT
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•http://www.facebook.com
•http://www.howstuffworks.com
•http://www.nationalgraphic.com
•http://www.youtube.com
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Thank you...
DINDO R. DELA PENA, Ph.D.