Initiatives of the Philippine Governments and other Non-government Organizations in

Educational Technology

Is there really a gap between the traditional

teachers and digital learners?

Traditional Education

Digital Learners

Traditional Learner:-A student suited to learn within the boundaries of a physical classroom using a predefined curriculum.-Using face-to-face training

Traditional Teacher-Concerned with the teacher being the controller of the learning environment.- They regard students as having 'knowledge holes' that need to be filled with information.

Modern/Digital Learners:

• Can do multi-tasking.

• Students who are required to use these technologies in their courses are unlikely to reject them and low use does not imply that they are inappropriate for educational use.

• Students do not naturally make extensive use for study purposes of many of the most discussed new technologies such as Blogs, Wikis and 3D Virtual Worlds.

Is there a gap between Traditional Teacher and Modern Learner

• Before books, young

people were taught

through apprenticeships

with master workers or

scholars.

• With today’s digital world, the classroom is not as critical as it was in a book based learning system. Today, information stored digitally can be retrieved 24/7.

Google

• What is Google?

– A search engine?

– Only?

– A United States - Headquartered, multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.

– In relation to education …

Google as an Initiative in Educational Technology

How Google help us in Education?

• Easy to set up

- Teachers can add students directly or share a code with their class to join. It takes just minutes to set up.

• Improves organization

- Students can see all of their assignments on an assignments page, and all class materials are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive.

• Affordable and secure

- Like the rest of our Google Apps for Education services, Classroom contains no ads, never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes, and is free for schools.

Trainings given by Google

Classroom Training

Google Youtube for Learners

Google Drawings

Google Slides

Google Play (for Education)

Trainings and Seminars given by Google

-They helped 100,000 students and faculty at 22 HBCUs in the U.S. “Go Google;” they now use Google Apps for Education.-They sponsored 464 events in 70 countries to celebrate the anniversary of International Women's Day. Google.org collaborated with Women for Women International to launch the “Join me on the Bridge” campaign. Represented in 20 languages, the campaign invited people to celebrate by joining each other on bridges around the world—either physically or virtually—to show their support.

-They introduced Chrome ox, a screen reader for Google Chrome, which helps people with vision impairment navigate websites. It's easy to learn and free to install as a Chrome Extension.- To date, 3,000 students in 77 countries have received Google scholarships and we also expanded our scholarship programs for women in technology.

References:

• https://www.google.com/chrome/education/webstore/app-packs.html#elementary

• http://www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/classroom/introduction.html

• http://www.fastcoexist.com/3022541/a-former-google-exec-reinvents-elementary-education-by-putting-an-rd-lab-in-school#3