Gingoog City Colleges

Professional Education
Education Technology 1 & 2

Test 1 (Essay)

1. The film, video, and the TV are indeed very powerful. Cite possible advantages and
disadvantages of these media.

Below are the possible advantages and disadvantages of film, video, and the TV:

Parameters Advantages Disadvantages

Simulate interest in learning
FILM Address multiple intelligences
Provides Visual Effects
YouTube videos which are
catching to the millennials.
It can easily distribute to any
VIDEO smart phones.
It can easily download via
smart phones.
Provide interactive
educational shows
Offers diversified topics such
as (English – Apple; Science –
TV Siniskwela; History-Bayani;
ESP-Hiraya Manawari/Once
Upon a Time; etc.)
Easy to preview or repeat the
confused parts.
Time consuming
Costly
Pornographic scenery
Crime and Violence Scene
Technical difficulties
Some information are based
on hoax and fake news
Crime and Violence Scene
Older model of Television (TV)
is a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
which is destructive to the
eyes of the students.
Other scenery which needs
Parental Guidance.

2. Why future teachers must develop the Art of Questioning?

Art of questioning is part of the pedagogical method of the teacher in delivering and
attacking the lessons so that the students will be motivated in acquiring the knowledge and
skills needed to be achieved so that the objectives of the lesson are realized.
 The teacher should develop the “Art of Questioning” so that he/she can facilitate
learning, develop mastery towards his/her students and importantly he/she can assess his/her
students learning by way of asking them a series of questions.

In developing or formulating the “Art of Questioning” the teacher must bear in mind
that questions are considered as instructional cues or stimuli that convey to students the content
elements to be learned and directions for what they are to do and how they are to do it. This calls for
the teachers’ careful planning and crafting of questions, Questions should play a central role in the
learning process. Because of this, we need to carefully plan our questions in order to guide the students
toward further investigation and a deeper understanding of the concepts being stressed. In other words,
we need to teach them how to think critically, logically, and creatively by exposing them to a culture of
thinking through our good questioning.

3. Explain the vital role or how important for a teacher to be skillful in constructing Test
Questioning.

4. Explain briefly each of the following key elements of constructivist approach, namely:
a. the teacher creating the learning environment.
b. the teacher giving students the tools and facilities, and
c. The teacher facilitating learning

6. The psychologist Lev Vygotsky stressed that learning affected by social influences. Agree or
disagree? Of you agree, what does it mean? If you disagree, why?

Lev Vygostsky authored the “Zone of Proximal Development” (ZPD) in which he stress-
out that the difference between what a learner can do without help, and what they can't do.
According to Lev Vygostky, “the person learning the skill set cannot complete it without the
assistance of the teacher or peer; then teacher helps the student attain the skill the student is
trying to master, until the teacher is no longer needed for that task.” Hence it is very evident
that the role of the teacher, parent and the society as a whole affect greatly the learning
acquisition of the child.
 It is respectfully submitted that I am agree to the idea of Lev Vygostky because I believe
based on my experience that the society molded her constituent. The concept of “scaffolding”
in which it refers to the guidance or actual teaching-learning experience by the child received
by him/her adult mentor.

Scaffolding is a process through which a teacher or a more competent peer helps a student in
their ZPD as necessary and tapers off this aid as it becomes unnecessary—much as workers remove a
scaffold from a building after they complete construction. "Scaffolding [is] the way the adult guides the
child's learning via focused questions and positive interactions (Balaban, 1995).

The sources of social influences are parents, teachers, peers, society and even the
internet social media flat-forms (e.g. Facebook, Tweeter, Youtube, Instagram, etc.); which
greatly influences the mind of our millennials. Now, society itself evolved from tangible aspect
of reality into virtual reality due to the advent of internet. The internet serves as the media of
“Scaffolding” where students learned methods outside the four corners of the classroom.

Experience tells us that that learning affected by social influences. Social influence starts
in the family and evolves in much diversified knowledge, attitude and skills (KAS) found in the
social media flat-form.