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Title: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Author: Celia D. Andas, LPT, EdD
As the world gets older, the more it is becoming advance and this advancement have great impacted our lives consciously and unconsciously. Facebook, Instagram, Google, Shoppee and Google Translate are examples of how AI has greatly entered our daily lives. In fact, one of the hearts of this advancement is the education, this AI is on its way of changing the current/traditional face of education. Therefore, it is a challenge for many institutions and individuals who are still inclined to the traditional face of education to be adapted to the revolution of time and responsive to the current needs of education.
The CHED, DepeD, educational planners and educators are called to shift the paradigm of education so that it can cope up with the emerging times. First, re-designing the curriculum, the heart of the educative process, customizing it to the development of needed skills and competencies of the 21 st Century. Second, Re-engineering strategies and approaches, and choosing appropriate content, as vehicle in the attainment of the lesson’s goals, considering what the programming experts have created. Third, re-tooling the faculty and school administrators, orienting them about these programs, for effective usage and delivery, supervision and implementation. Lastly, facilitating the faculty’s readiness and willingness to embrace, the change of their crucial role as facilitator and trainer.
Mapping out the areas in education that needs to be improved and revised
is highly important to fit in to our current world. It is our utmost goal in education to make students to be relevant members of our society, productive employees in the future who can execute task with precision, accuracy and efficiency and become globally competent individuals. This will only realize if our education can always ride on to the changing pacing of the world and only if our education can provide technologically-ready institutions.
Reference:
Andas, C. (2019, July-December). The Professional Teacher. Lorimar Publishing Inc. 12-13.
Title: The Top 5 Priorities of Classroom Management Author: Ben Johnson
I could say, one of the most challenging part for teachers is the classroom management considering that we will be handling completely different students. Students that came from different walks of life, different culture, beliefs and experiences. From the article that I’ve read, I’ve learned the five essential ways on how to maintain/implement classroom management. These are the following:
Develop effective working relationships with your students- good relationship with students is important for classroom management and if we have this with our students, we can push them harder and further to learn because they have trust on us. Train your students on how learning takes place in your classroom- our students need to know their responsibilities as students, that they should take accountable of their own responsibilities and own learning. That is to train to become independent individuals and learners. Protect and leverage your time- as teacher one of classroom management is to make use and maximize the time by being always prepared everyday before coming to classrooms so we know immediately the things that we need to accomplish for the day. Anticipate your student’s behaviours in well-written lesson plans- lesson plans should suit to students behavior and learning styles for smooth transition of classes. The best discipline management plan is a good lesson plan. Establish behavioral standards- list behaviors that are acceptable in the classroom and diminish improper behaviors by imposing corresponding consequences.
Though there is no theory or principles on classroom management that would do a magic overnight; however, results could be evident at the end if there is strict implementation and consistency.
Reference:
Johnson, B. (2016, September 2). The Top 5 Priorities of Classroom Management:edutopia/blog/5-priorities- classroom-management-ben-johnson
Title: Focusing on Student Well-being in Times of Crisis Author: Cathleen Beachboard
With the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic one of its affected areas is the field of education. The education has to be rotated into 360 degrees in order to cope with the changes brought by the pandemic and the most vulnerable of this change in education are the students. This abrupt change triggers stress and fear in students; this fear primarily rooted from the problem of having no access to internet connection, gadgets to use to cope with the new modality of learning as well as financial struggles. Therefore, there is a call for teachers to support students’ safety and well-being in this time of crisis using the three C’s.
Communication: Mental health Check-In-before proceeding to proper instruction, greet your students with a question, “How are you this past several days/weeks?”, and let them share their feelings/emotions one-by-one and be ready to listen and give a piece of advice. This simple greeting can be a big help to release and reduce their stress. Consistency: Schedules and Routines- give your students a schedules and routines that all of you has to accomplished. Like before class; greet everyone, share your feelings for the day, share motivational lines/biblical verses to the class, 1-minute reflection time and etc. Control: Self-care Plans- ask students to list down things that makes them feel better like listening to music, exercise, coloring and etc. Let them make a plan as to what they will do and how they will do it in order for them to take control of their emotions in times of distress. Ask them to check their plans from time to time so it will keep them reminded of how they prevent themselves from being consumed by emotional reactions. As teacher, it is also our duty that we help our students from emotional problems, there should always be a balance between content and compassion. They will learn best when they are at the finest state of their mind and heart.
Reference:
Beachboard, C. (2020, March 27). Focusing on Student Well-being in Times of Crisis. edutopia/article?focusing- student-well-being-times-crisis.
Title: Summative Assessment in Distance Learning Author: Andrew Miller
One of the challenging parts of the distance learning is to implement the assessment that is workable to our new mode of learning. I believe that with the rapid change of technology, floating/administering assessments through online is much facile. However, as teacher we have to consider that we cannot just stick with the true/false assessments and multiple choices as chances for cheating especially now in online is getting rampant. Thus, with the shift of mode of learning, we also have to shift in our usual assessments that we used to have during the face-to-face classes. From the article, “Summative Assessment in Distance Learning”, I have got important takeaways from it that are truly helpful to all teachers who are working online. Here are the ways on how to implement assessment in distance learning.
Stop assessing everything- know what is best and need to assess from what is you think is nice to assess. Assigning performance tasks and performance items- this is an assessment that is safe from any form of cheating. This allows the higher skills to be develop and applied than just a route memorization. Moving from one big event to a series of smaller events- if students are required to complete a big task, chuck it into smaller tasks to avoid adding up the pressure and stress to the students and protect their well-being in this time of pandemic. Using conversations and oral defence- have an oral type of assessments than just having a written type of assessment because oral type provides further evidence of the students learning. Leveraging technology tools- maximize the use of technology in this time of distance learning to create more engaging and effective assessment. Teaching academic honesty and trust students- reminding all the students from time to time to give their utmost honesty in their assessments to control behavior and trust them to do the right thing. Using professional judgement-always be objective in giving feedback and scoring the assessments of the students.
The abovementioned, are just suggestions but not necessarily solutions to perfectly conduct assessment in distance learning. Thus, the teacher needs constant reflection and re-evaluating the context of the students and other necessary concerns.
Reference: Miller, A. (2020, April 28). Summative Assessment in Distance Learning. edutopia/article/summative-assessment-distance-learning
Title: 2 Ways to Bring Games into Your Classroom Author: Hubert Ham
I might say that, one of the challenges that teachers frequently encountered is the problem with students’ engagement and interaction and it worsen today the fact that our mode of teaching has shifted from face-to-face into online learning. From the article written by Hubert Ham, he suggested the use of games as a new tool and techniques to engage learners and at the same time assess them. In his work, he elaborated the difference of the two terms, gamification and game-based learning.
Gamification - it is where some elements of the games are added into a non-game activity. Example for this is alternating the instruction of the non-game activities into the mechanics of the chosen game.
Advantages of Gamification can engage both intrinsic (pleasure and fulfilment) and extrinsic (recognition and rewards) motivation. Teacher can take control of the activity because he/she is the one who created it. In the part of the teacher, it can also engage their creativity in new ways and allow them to explore more exciting approaches for learning.
Game-based Learning - it uses games such as existing boards, social or video games in order to teach the content in an engaging way. You leverage the content of a game to accomplish your desired learning outcomes.
Advantages of Game-based Learning Can access a various ed-tech tools that will fit the content of the lesson. Costs are relatively low, plenty of video games in YouTube are easily accessible. There are plenty of specialized games to choose from, such as video card, card game or board game and etc.
Reference:
Ham, H. (2021, March 31). 2 Ways to Bring Games into Your Classroom. edutopia/article/two-ways-bring-games-your-classroom
Professional Reading for Education students
Course: Education (BSED3)
University: Christ the King College
