Lesson 17: Educational Technology 2 Practicum

            

              Educational Technology 2 provides students the experiential process of adapting to technology integration within a student-centered paradigm. The practicum phase consists of hands-on computer tutorials which the student teacher or professional teacher-trainee will need to make him/her capable.

                Essential requirements for ET 2 practicum phase will be:

  v  A computer laboratory/ special computer classroom with adequate sets of computers for hands-on tutorial learning.

  v  Participation of computer lab tutor/assistant – to assist the learner in the use of the computer & its various programs.

  v  Assigned number of hours in conformity with the course requirement. Tutorials are preferably done during weekends in order to provide continuous hours of computer hands-on training.

                The practicum phase consists in:

           1.       Basic Microsoft Word (6 hrs.)

        2.       Microsoft PowerPoint (6 hrs.)

        3.       Internet as tool of inquiry (4 hrs.)

     

      At the end of the tutorial, the learner will be able to:

  Ø  Search and retrieve information from the Web.

  Ø  Acquire skills in locating appropriate information on the internet.

  Ø  Acquire ability to use internet tools such as search engines.

  Ø  Gain knowledge of search techniques such as browsing through an information tree.

Learn the ability to execute the search.