1. use technology resources to engage in ongoing professional development and lifelong learning.
2. continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.
3. apply technology to increase productivity.
4. use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning.
   

Chapter 2 and 4 Discussion Summary

Teachers can use various technology tools in educational lesson plans  to ensure that students’ are provided with alternatives means of learning aside from the traditional lecturing.   Computers and internet are the frequently used technology tools in the classroom nowadays.  The best example of integrating technology in the lesson is the activity given by Dr. Cyrus in her class in which she required her students to use the computer and internet to do their group discussions through the Moodle and to upload the group summary of the discussion also with Moodle.  There are other technology tools that can be used in the classroom such as audiotapes, videotapes and book tapes.

Cooperative learning was one of the instructional strategies described in Chapter 2 of the Instructional Technology and Media for Learning.  Cooperative learning is the use of small groups of students to work together to accomplish a common goal.  With this, we agreed that Dr. Cyrus’ idea of putting us in groups and letting us work as a team and to be able to do group discussions about Chapter 2 and 4 lessons through Moodle and make one group summary demonstrates a strategy called Cooperative learning.  Base on our group discussions, most of us use the Cooperative learning strategy during the lesson plan activities in our lessons.  According to the different lesson plans we have, we required students to work together to complete the activities given on our lesson plans.

With the use of instructional games, simulations, or simulation games, some of us suggest to use these instructional systems to enhance students’ learning capabilities.  Most of us agreed that these systems help teachers to make their lessons more interesting and fun for the students.

Teachers always seek for other means to be able to help their students learn effectively.  The use of virtual manipulative is one way of making lessons more comprehensible to students.  It helps in making lessons much easier to understand and for activities to be less complicated to perform.