Tuesday, July 12, 2011

LB #10: The Computer as a Tutor

The computer is one of the greatest human inventions ever made, designed to carry out complicated mathematical and logical operations. Educators saw the potential of the computer. The computer can act as a tutor relieving the teacher of many activities in his personal role as classroom tutor. However, this does not mean that the computer can completely replace the teacher since the teacher shall continue to play the major roles of information deliverer and learning environment controller. He should ensure that the students have the needed knowledge and skills for any computer activity, plan the sequential and structured activities to achieve objectives and evaluate the students' achievement by ways of tests.

The student on the other hand receive the information, try to understand instructions for the computer activity, keep in mind the information and rules for the computer activity and apply the knowledge and rules during the process of computer learning.

The computer has indeed succeeded in providing an individualized learning environment which was so difficult for a teaching handling whole classes. Computer activities are not the end-all of learning since they have to conform to the lessons/curriculum. In the years ahead, we shall see the computer in schools are a common tool for the enhancement of the student's thinking, communication and collaboration skills. Computers will become an integral component of the future classroom and not a mere machine that can deliver routine drills and exercises.

5 comments:

  1. Nowadays we cannot deny that with computer, teaching is much more simpler. The hard hours of making lesson plans are now cut short due to the easy encoding of test papers if the teacher is capable to do so...

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  2. Computer is not only making things simpler for teachers but also, for higher regard, to all establishments with automated system. As a result, at the present time, like everybody needs it and uses it.

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  4. There is not big difference between SAT MATH and ACT MATH. These both tests required different approach for test. How we can give best regents test prep performance in math portion of SAT test. In case of any problem in SAT MATH then must solve it.

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