ICT as "Medium for Advocacy "

 1.How Information and Communication has transformed the educational methodologies when you were in grade school and now in Senior High School.

With the emerging new technologies, educational methodologies transformed as  the teaching profession is evolving from  an  emphasis  on  teacher-centred,  lecture-based  instruction  to  student-centred,  interactive  learning  environments.  Designing  and  implementingsuccessful  ICT-enabled  teacher  education  programmes  is  the  key  to  funda-mental, wide-ranging educational reforms.

In the past decade or two teaching has changed significantly, so much in fact that schools may not be what some of us remember from our own childhood. Changes have affected both the opportunities and the challenges of teaching, as well as the attitudes, knowledge, and skills needed to prepare for a teaching career. The changes have influenced much of the content of this book.

Now in Senior High School, the methodologies transformed into the following:

Increased diversity: there are more differences among students than there used to be. Diversity has made teaching more fulfilling as a career, but also made more challenging in certain respects.

Increased instructional technology: classrooms, schools, and students use computers more often today than in the past for research, writing, communicating, and keeping records. Technology has created new ways for students to learn (for example, this textbook would not be possible without Internet technology!). It has also altered how teachers can teach most effectively, and even raised issues about what constitutes “true” teaching and learning.

Greater accountability in education: both the public and educators themselves pay more attention than in the past to how to assess (or provide evidence for) learning and good quality teaching. The attention has increased the importance of education to the public (a good thing) and improved education for some students. But it has also created new constraints on what teachers teach and what students learn.

Increased professionalism of teachers: Now more than ever, teachers are able to assess the quality of their own work as well as that of colleagues, and to take steps to improve it when necessary. Professionalism improves teaching, but by creating higher standards of practice it also creates greater worries about whether particular teachers and schools are “good enough.”

(But how do these changes show up in the daily life of classrooms? The answer depends partly on where you teach; circumstances differ among schools, cities, and even whole societies.)

 2. The following is a comparison of how then and now transformed by ICT.

a. The singing of national anthem : 

then: Form a line , sing the national anthem with conductor sang in 4/4 beating.
now : National anthem is played with multimedia 
b. Concept Notes
  then: Concept notes is written using our own penmanship.
 now: Concept notes is computerized and sometimes taken from google.

c. Presentation of visual aids
then:  visual aids are written in manila paper, carton of cigarettes 
now:  store in a flash drive and played using projector
d. class record
then: hand written manually in a class record book
now: computer generated and electronic class recording
e. Class dismissal
then: class dismissal indicated using a bell and clapper manually struck
now: electronic bell rang
f: assignment and research
then:  assignment and research is done through interview and asking question from the expert.
now:  assignment and research is done through copy pasting from google.