Lesson 5: Preferences of the Technology Generation

Nuñez, Patricia Ann P.              BSEd-English4A             TTh 10:00am-12:00pm

Lesson 5: Preferences of the Technology Generation

This lesson discusses about the differences in perceptions between old and young which create a generation gap. In the field of education, teachers should be aware of the greater needs to acquire not only computer literacy but competence and so with the students, changes in pedagogical theory and practice and new levels of learning require for the learners of new generation. During that time, teachers are obliged on content-based courses that are measurable by standard test. While in the new generation, they prefer to use visuals like television, videos, images, computers and many others that are essential for teaching-learning process. They use hypermedia for effective learning. It also talks about the single and multi-track activity patterns, texts versus visuals, linear versus hyper media, independent versus social learners, learning to do versus learning to pass the test, delayed rewards and instant gratification and rote memory versus fun learning. 

             As to the experience, the DEpEd and CHED have approved the Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) as to the new curriculum of the educational system in the Philippines. By that, we are already exposed with adopting the preferences of the learners of the new generation when we are still in third year college in our English 77 class, the Preparation and Evaluation of Instructional Materials. These includes incorporating different strategies, using of technologies in imparting knowledge, uses of video clips, visual aids, realia and other form of instructional materials that will help students to learn far better and also cater all their learning styles and multiple intelligences. Also we, students make it to the point that we already exert effort upon doing the different task given to us. Through it, we observed that updated technologies could really help us to accomplish the tasks for we are experiencing it also.

As a reflection, following modern trends in technology-related education, schools as well as educators should now foster a student-centered learning environment, wherein students are given scope to use computer information sources in their assignments, reports and presentations in written, visual, or dramatic forms. Owning to the development, teacher must therefore acquire or improve on their skills, as well as their computers skills.

As an application, we future educator should use the things we have learned in this lesson for an effective outcome in the teaching-learning process. We should let students also see new levels of learning that require the appropriate use of technology which lead them to understand the lesson well. Recent teaching-learning models have paved the way for instructional approaches in which students rely less on teachers’ information-givers instead they rely more on their efforts to acquire information, build their own knowledge, and solve problems. We have to be aware and active in adopting educational technology practices. Since, following the modern trends technology-related education is very essential to acquire knowledge in achieving an appropriate way of teaching-learning process.