Sunday, March 6, 2011

LB #18: Roles and Functions of and Educational Media Center

The Educational Media Center or EMC is the media depot of a school. It is where all instructional media, equipment and other informational materials are collected, stored, and utilized. A functional EMC eases the jobs of teachers. Less time is spent searching for the right instructional material to use in class. EMC personnel can help in identifying the best materials to use and in what media. Teachers and students alike can also be taught how to use new instructional media that are available. Promoting the use of these materials will help maximize the capacity of the students and teachers in using such materials and more importantly, maximize the learning capability of the students through these materials.

LB #17: Assessment in a Constructivist, Technology-Supported Learning

The aim of studying should not be just to pass the test but rather to learn. Studying through memorization may help but the topic should also be understood. The student must be able to connect what he/she has memorized to how he/she understood it. There has to be meaning to what was memorized or else, learning is not gained.

With technology-supported learning, technology becomes the source of information for the students with the aid of technology. In assessing the learnings of the students, a paper-and-pencil will not be sufficient to measure how much they have learned. Authentic assessment is the most appropriate tool for this. The students will be assessed while performing real world tasks. They are assessed based on their performance.

LB #16: Using the Project-based Learning Multimedia as a Teaching-Learning Strategy

Collaborative work will help students better remember the lesson. Their involvement in the project will help imprint in their minds the details of the lesson. Much more, students learn to analyze, research, organize, assess, make decisions, manage time and work with others.

In the process, the teacher also learns many things from the students. It is a give-and-take process. The end-result of the project will give satisfaction to both teacher and students.