LESSON 11 The Computer as the Teacher’s Tool

LESSON 11

                        The Computer as the Teacher’s Tool

This lesson talks about the computer as the teacher’s handy-tool. It will also support the constructivist and social constructivist paradigms of constructivist learning. Constructivism was introduced by Piaget and Bruner. They gave stress to knowledge discovery of new meaning\concepts\principles in the learning process. Various strategies have been suggested to foster knowledge discovery, among these, is making students engaged in gathering unorganized information from which they can induce ideas and principles. Students are also asked to apply discovered knowledge to new situations, a process for making their knowledge applicable to real life situations.

            Computer can provide us a lot of information in many forms, such as text, graphics, sound and video. And also multimedia encyclopedias is available now a days in the internet that is why we can access global information.

            By the use of the computer it can make our report more meaningful because we can apply or display images and it is easy for the learners to understand the report. Just like what our teachers did if they thought that lesson is boring so they made power point presentations to entertain us and to provide us a meaningful learning style.

            Computer really is one of the tool that can help the learners to find varies of ideas to improve the learning of the students, and by the help of the teacher also we would know the right usage of the computer.

            As a future teacher we really need to encourage our student to learn more, because sometime student used only the computer to play games and etc. that’s one of the disadvantages of the computer. That is why the teacher should always remind their students to use the computer