Lesson 8: Teaching with Contrived experiences

Contrived experiences are edited copies of reality and are used as substitutes for real things when it is not practical or not possible to bring or do the real thing in the classroom. Here, we make use of representative models if those things being tackled were absent.

Lesson 7: Direct Purposeful Experiences

When we say direct and purposeful experiences, this refer to learning by doing. It is done for the student to know well or to understand well the lesson. Then, as a teacher we should not depend only with what was written in the book we should go beyond the lesson for us and for the student to have a better understanding about the lesson.

Lesson 6: Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

In using and evaluating instructional materials, as a teacher we should abide the acronym PPPF which means prepare yourself, prepare your student, present the material and follow up. Prepare yourself means that you should know your lesson objective and you should plan on what you do for the class. Prepare your students means that you set the class expectations and learning goals. In preparing your students, give them a guide question for them to be able to answer during the discussion. Then present your material very well. Lastly, you need to follow up to find out if objective was attained or not.

Lesson 5: The Cone of Experience

The Cone of Experience is a visual model, a pictorial device that presents bands of experience arranged according to degree of abstraction and not degree of difficulty. Thus Cone of Experience was made by Edgar Dale. Here are the learning resources presented in the Cone of Experience: direct purposeful experiences; contrived experiences; dramatized experiences; demonstrations; study trips; exhibits; educational television; motion pictures; recordings, radio and still pictures; visual symbols and verbal symbols.

Lesson 4: Systematic Approach to Teaching

There is a systematized instruction in teaching. When we say system, that means there is a step to be followed to effect learning to the student. First, you are going to define the instructional objectives considering the student's needs, interests and readiness. On the basis of these objectives, the teacher selects the appropriate teaching methods to be used and based on the teaching method selected, the appropriate learning experiences and appropriate materials, equipment and facilities will also be selected. Then the teacher will assign appropriate personnel to assist her and defining the role of any personnel involved in the preparation, setting and returning of these learning resources. Then, the teacher will implement an instruction either direct or indirect instruction depending on his/her instructional objective, nature of the subject matter, readiness of students and the expertise of the teacher himself or herself. Then, evaluate the outcomes whether it was attained or not. Finally, the teacher will proceed to the next lesson through same cycle.

Lesson 3: The Roles of Educational technology in Learning

From the traditional point of view, technology serves as a source and presenter of knowledge or the learner learns from the technology. But from the constructivist point of view, educational technology serves as learning tools that learners learn with.

Lesson 2: Technology: Boon or Bane

Technology is both a boon and a bane. It is a boon if you use it in an appropriate way and it will help us also in making our work easier and faster. It is a bane if you use it negatively or taken it for granted and it will harm you also.