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This lesson is all about how contrive experiences contributes to the teaching-learning process. Contrive experiences are miniature or edited copies of real-life situations used as a substitute in real things if it is not feasible to bring or do inside the classroom. These includes model, mock-ups, simulation, specimen, and games.

Contrive experiences aim to overcome limitation of space and time, edit reality for us to be able to focus on parts of a system that we intend to study, overcome difficulties of size, understand inaccessible, and help learner understand abstractions.


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According to Dale's Cone of Experience, direct purposeful experiences have great impact in the teaching-learning process. It leaves a big marks to student's learning. Direct purposeful experiences are firsthand experiences which are the foundation of learning. They are very rich experiences that are being perceived by our senses and used in constructing ideas and concepts. Its implication to the teaching-learning process is to give student our students opportunities to learn by doing. Let us immerse our students in the world of experience. Another is let us make use of real things as instructional materials for as long as we can. Let us also help the students develop the five senses to heighten their sensitivity to the world. And lastly we should also guide our students so that they can draw meaning from their firsthand experiences and to elevate their level of thinking.

The teacher should not only stuck to the concrete but rather bring up the students to higher level of generalization, abstraction and higher level of thinking process.


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This lesson focuses on the instructional materials that are engage in learning. Models of facilitating learning consists of establishing learning objective, assessing learner's entry capabilities, designing, selecting, implementing learning activities and evaluating progress toward learning objectives.

Using appropriate instructional materials, methods, and experiences as well as learning instructions - directly or indirectly will help the student in the learning process. Concrete and abstract materials help students design and create meaningful ideas to improve their creativity and higher thinking skills.

To ensure effective teaching, teacher should prepare himself, prepare his students, present the material, and follow-up or solicit feed backs from his students if learning objectives are attained or not. Prepare yourself, be prepare and have the mastery of your subject matter. Prepare your student by unlocking their difficulties by motivating them using activities which will encourage them to participate in the class and establish good relationship between teacher and the student. Present the materials. Materials should be appropriate and suitable for the learner's educational needs. follow-up or solicit feed backs is one way of knowing if your student learn or not. Evaluation helps both teacher and the student in a way that the teacher can make some adjustments if the students have difficulty in the lesson and do appropriate remedial measures or actions if necessary.


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This lesson talks about the cone of experience. This lesson is about how the student conceptualize his experience from concrete to abstract and apply this experience to his learning. According to Edgar Dale, the proponent of this theory, the pattern of arrangement of the bands of experience is not difficulty but rather degree of abstraction. Reading as well as learning must undergo a systematic process from base to the pinnacle. This approach or theory has also a similarity with Jerome S. Bruner, the proponent of Three-Tiered Model of Learning. According to him, the learner is highly recommended to proceed from the enactive to the iconic and only after to the symbolic. Learning should not end in the abstract. Learning should be from the concrete to the abstract, from abstract to the concrete and so on and so fort. Let learning be a cycle and a continuous process.

What I've learned in this lesson is that too much reliance concrete experience may cause detriment to the learning process. We should not also on the concrete experiences but also help students to balance their experiences from concrete to abstract. We should strive hard to bring the learner to symbolic level of learning and to develop and hone their higher order thinking skills.

According to an educator, the best teacher is our own experiences. We learn from our own experiences. We learn to discover things, create ideas in our own way, and we able to build images from it. As future educator, we must help our students to develop these experiences into more fun and as part of their active learning. Let these experiences be a part of their learning. From a simple or concrete experience to abstract one.


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The focus of this lesson is the student as the center of learning. Traditionally, the teacher is the center of the learning process. Instructions are directly given to the students. Students become dependent on the teacher's instructions. In this lesson, instructions are organized and well-planned to meet the student's needs, interest and readiness. Appropriate materials, equipments and facilities are being selected in order to meet the learning needs of the students. The teacher plays a vital role in the learning process to help students become responsive, motivated, participative, and as well as an active learner in the learning environment.

I've learned in this lesson that if we want the student to learn, we should be systematic in our teaching. Breakdown the information into manageable chunks so that it will be easy for them to understand the lessons. I've also learned that feedback or evaluation is very important to know whether the instructional objectives are achieved or not. Soliciting feedback from our students is very essential to know if they understand the lesson or not so that we can give remedial measure to improve the student's performance as well as the teacher's strategies and actions.

As future educator, it is a good thing that we are systematic and organized in our teaching in order to help the students learn and improve their performance. We should administer or employ learning activities such as video presentations or programs, colorful visual aids, interactive class discussions, and the like so that students will not get bored and they will get motivated and inspired.


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The Roles of Educational Technology in Learning


In this lesson, technology plays a significant role in learning and there are two approaches that are engage in the learning process - the traditional perspective and the constructivist perspective. The traditional approach or perspective is just like spoon-feeding. The learner learns from the technology without doing nothing. Meaning to say, the learner is just a passive recipient of the technology. No interactions involve between the learner and the technology. And technology itself serves as a teacher. Whereas in constructivist approach, there is an active involvement of the student or the learner in the learning process with the aid of technology. Students are able to construct and build meaningful information about what have they seen, read, and heard using these technologies. Students learn with the technology as they experience it and technology serves as a collaborator in the learning process. Technology, as an integral part of the educational system, increases the fun in learning, helps motivate both the teacher and the students and helps in facilitating learning.


I've learned in this lesson that technology is a learning tool to learn with and not a tool to learn from. Technology should not serve as the teacher of the students but rather serves as an information vehicle for exploring knowledge to support the students in constructing meaningful ideas, understandings, and beliefs.

As a future educator, I can apply technology in my lessons by making power point presentations to make a new "twist" in teaching and new strategies to catch the attention of the students and make them aware that computer or technology is not a harmful thing but rather a friend that will help them in their studies if properly used. I can also make electronic grading system that will lessen my work and time consumption.


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Technology is truly a big help to man. In fact, it is a blessing if used properly. For example is the cellphone. We benefit from the existence of this gadget because it makes communication more easy. We can talk to our love ones away from us. It can also a means of help to our authority if there are emergencies and trouble. We can easily ask for their help through texting and calling. On the contrary, technology becomes bane if it is not used properly for our development and learning. It could be an obstruction to human learning and human development. For example, instead we study our lesson we give more time to other things especially entertaining our BF's/GF's texts or calls. There are also times that we opt to escape our breakfast, lunch, or diner just to buy load. Some people use cellphone to ridicule or bully other person, used it as a triggering device in bombs.

I have learned that technology is really a blessing to human if it is well used to achieve our goals and desires particularly in the attainment of learning objectives. We should maximize and utilize this to the extent that it will satisfy and attain our learning needs and expectations.

Technology becomes an integral part of our educational system if it is well-manipulated towards the achievement of the learning objectives. It serves as a learning aid to facilitate learning and to improve the student's performance. Educational movies and the use of computers will enhance their sensory perceptions engage in learning and it will motivates them to study hard.

Being blessed with knowledge and skills in computer, I will used and share it to help students to learn to their maximum capacity. I will put to their mind that computer should be used properly in order for them to attain learning objectives.


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