The document contains responses to questions about technology and teaching:
1. Some challenges of teaching with technology include lack of internet access, technical difficulties, and keeping up with rapid changes.
2. Technology is applied globally through online learning tools, social media for collaboration, and access to open educational resources.
3. To be a globally competent teacher requires skills like digital literacy, cultural awareness, and facilitating international connections through technology.
4. Common educational tools used by teachers are interactive whiteboards, learning management systems, and multimedia tools which engage students and bring lessons to life.
5. To prepare students for the modern world, teachers focus on skills like critical thinking, problem solving, and digital literacy through
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Technology for K-12
and 21st Century
Teachers
The Technology and
Digitized Teachers
Internet Tools For
Education
Types of Online
Teaching Tools for
Teachers
Software to Run for
Online Classes
Apps for Designing
and Creating Conent
Importance of
Internet and Tools
Educational
Technology Tools
Benefits of
Technology Aided
Instruction
Best Practices of
Teaching
8. Being a teacher in the 21st
century is very challenging.
The rapid and constant pace
of change in technology is a
challenge not only in
business, but also in
education.
Introduction
9. Introduction
Exposure and access of
learners to such technology
is a reality that must be
taken as opportunity by
teachers to improve
teaching-learning process.
11. How does technology works for the K to 12 and the 21st Century Teachers?
K to 12 and 21st century
teachers are demanded to
be multi-skilled, multi-
literate and multi-specialist
among other thing.
12. K to 12 and 21st century teachers are
demanded to be multi-skilled.
The skill of k to 12 and 21st century
teachers go beyond teaching content
areas but also in facilitating and
organizing groups and activities.
Use of technology like networking
encourages collaboration and
engagement
13. K to 12 and 21st century teachers are
demanded to be multi-literate
Multi-literacy means teachers know how in
using various technologies in teaching.
Technology can enhance students
potential even more if they are provided
opportunities to experience explicit,
interactive, and engaging technology aided
instruction.
14. K to 12 and 21st century teachers
are demanded to be multi-literate.
Education is a lifelong process and
when resources are available 24/7,
discovering new knowledge and
self-updating is easy.
15. K to 12 and 21st century teachers are
demanded to be multi-specialist
The teachers cannot be just specialist of his/her
major subject since there are free and readily
accessible education tools on the web. There are
website with resources on a variety of subjects,
online tutorials, video sites, mind mapping software,
online dictionaries, references, thesaurus,
PowerPoint, libraries online and music and art
lessons which can help teachers to be specialist of
other content areas.
17. The Technology and Digitized Teachers:
What are some of the
latest and greatest
inventions in computers
and digital media which
can be great help to an
innovative teacher?
18. 1. Projector
Projectors are an inclusive tool
in the classroom, enabling the
teacher to draw on multiple
sources during a lesson, and to
engage students in a more agile
way.
19. 2. Interactive Whiteboard
It integrate various learning styles into
one experience. Students can learn by
seeing, hearing, and interacting with
the board through touch. This equips
teachers with new, innovative ways to
teach the same subject material.
20. 3. Website and Blogs
Blogs can be spaces for informal or formal writing
by students, and the capacity of blogs to support
multiple forms of media (images, videos, links, and
so on) can help students bring creativity to their
communication. Most blogs includes tools for
commenting and discussion, enabling students to
engage their ideas in conversation with others,
either within their local learning communities or on
the open Web.
21. 4. Audio and Video
Better classroom management: Enhanced audio
and video can cause less stress in the classroom
and fewer discipline issues. With the help of
microphone amplification, teachers can now speak
in their natural, soothing voice to teach their
lessons and students no longer feel as though
they are being yelled at.
22. 5. Computers, Tablets and Mobile Devices
Making schoolwork more fun and more interactive
adds extra incentive for students – tablets can help
to increase focus and motivation. The virtual
environment created by a tablet is stimulating for
students who may feel unmotivated by a traditional
classroom setting.
23. 6. Social Networks
Social Networks promotes self-directed
learning, which prepares students to search for
answers and make decisions independently.
When reinforced in a classroom setting, these
social media skills can be guided and refined to
produce better learning outcomes and critical
awareness.
25. Free Internet Tools for Education:
What is Internet tools?
Electronic instrument based on
Internet
technology with which parties can
interact.
e.g.,
intranet -extranet
web page -e-mail
video conference -discussion group
26. Types of Online Teaching Tools for
Teachers
1. Free software tools for running your
online classes.
2. Free resources to boast engagement
3. Free tools to stay organized and
procedure
4. Best online assessment tools
5. Best apps for designing and creating
content
27. Free Software to Run Your Online Classes:
1. Zoom- the most popular online software
in the market for holding meeting, classes
and online get-to together.
2. Google Meet- another popular software
application for online tutors, virtual
teachers and anyone conducting classes
online
3. Go To Meeting- puts the “classes in
online classes.
28. Best Online Assessment Tools:
1. Quizlet- free tool that helps teachers create
learning
activities for students, like flashcards, study
material and
interactive quiz games.
2. Kahoot- a game-based learning platform that
makes it
really simple for teachers to create and share
learning
games or quizzes in a matter of minutes with their
students.
29. Best Apps for Designing and
Creating Content:
1. Canva- super-cool drag and drop
graphic design tool that is 100%
free for teachers and students.
2. Google Slides- web-based
presentation tool similar to
applications like PowerPoint or
keynote
30. Importance of Internet Tools
Trustworthy assistant that
helps to make a teaching and
learning process more
enjoyable and effective
32. Educational Technology Tools
Traditional Visual Aids
Videos (movies, film)
PowerPoint presentation
Computer games and
application
Virtual learning
environment
33. How can a Teacher
Benefit from a
Technology aided
Instruction?
34. Teacher Benefit from a Technology aided Instruction:
Terminology of Educational
Technology Is the combined
use of computer hardware,
software and educational
theory and practice to
facilitate learning.
35. 1. Increased student engagement
o When students get to use technology,
they’re automatically more engaged.
Kids love technology, and incorporating
it into lessons gets students excited
about learning.
2. More collaboration
o Technology makes it easier for students
to collaborate with one another.
36. 3. Improve digital literacy
o Digital literacy is a fundamental
skill for students in the 21st
century. Knowing how to use
technology and the internet will
be required in almost every job
that students might have in the
future
37. 4. Automate grading
o In the past, teachers have
spent hours after school and
on weekends grading papers.
There are tons of EdTech tools
that can cut down on this time,
automating grading and
making measuring student
progress simple.
38. 5. Stay in touch 24/7
o With technology and the
internet, students and teachers
can stay in touch all the time.
6. Keep up with classroom
management
o There are lots of EdTech tools
designed to help teachers with
classroom management.
39. 7. Keep up with classroom management
o There are lots of EdTech tools designed to
help teachers with classroom
management.
8. Flip the classroom
o It is where students learn through reading
or lecture videos at home then do projects
or discuss what they learned in the
classroom, is only possible through
EdTech.
40. 9. Have more fun
o EdTech can make learning
more fun.
10. Get creative
o With EdTech tools, students
can do more creative work
41. 11. Go paperless
o By putting more materials online and
utilizing technology, teachers can cut
back on the number of copies they make
and save paper.
12. Publish and present student work
o Instead of creating a presentation that
no one outside the classroom will see,
students can use the internet to publish
their work for the entire world to see
42. 13. Do more research
o Learning how to do
research is an important
skill that teachers have
always taught.
14. Learn to code
o Computer programming is
an increasingly in demand
skill.
43. 15. Teachers save time
o With technology and the internet,
teachers can find lesson plans and free
materials online. Plus, apps and
programs designed to grade student
work can save even more time.
16. Raise test scores
o EdTech can help improve student
achievement and raise test scores
44. 17. Bring the classroom home
o Students can continue their learning at
home using the internet.
18. Find free materials
o There are tons of free materials online
that can help busy teachers throw
together lesson plans in minutes.
45. 19. Turn review into a game
o There are tons of apps available that
turn review activities or test prep into
fun games for students. This can make
otherwise boring review fun and
exciting.
20. Personalize learning for every student
o EdTech helps teachers differentiate
learning.
46. 21. Include ELLs
o Technology can help English Language
Learners feel included in the
classroom.
22. Stop buying expensive textbooks
o Information is readily available online,
and it’s more up-to- date than with old
print books.
47. 23. Provide remediation
o There are lots of resources available to
help remediate students using EdTech.
24. Provide acceleration
o Students who are bored with the
material the rest of the class is working
on can complete additional projects and
accelerate their learning using EdTech.
48. 25. Bring your classroom into
the 21st century
o Teachers are responsible
for repaying students for a
21st century world, and
exposing them to technology
is a part of that.
49. APPS AND TOOLS THAT WORK OFFLINE
1. Canary Learning
-is one tool that can help educators without
internet as well.
It is one of the most used grading tools.
2. Pocket
- What makes pocket useful is that while
you browse the
internet and find an article that you want to
read later you can
easily save that resource and access it
when you need to without depending on
the availability of internet.
50. 3. Evernote
-is a great cloud-syncing note-
taking app.
4. iBooks
-the iBooks library is perfect for
storing PDFs for offline reading
51. 5. KA-Lite
- is open-source software that runs
on the local server and users can
watch Khan Academy videos and do
exercises as well as track student’s
progress, etc, everything without
internet connectivity.
53. Best Practices in Teaching
Involve students in
decision making.
The use of peer learning
instruction.
Regular feed backing
through call and text and
via online means
54. HOME DELIGHTS #4:
1. What are those challenges you
encountered in delivering your
lessons using innovation and
technology?
2. How is Technology applied in
global education?
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55. HOME DELIGHTS #4:
3. In your own opinion, how to
become a globally competent
teacher?
4. Being a teacher, what educational
tools that you usually use in
teaching? why?
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56. HOME DELIGHTS #4:
5. How do you prepare student
in the modern world?
6. Does technology empower
students to control their own
learning?
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