When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices and executing skils than is typical in teacher-led lessons.

 

The teacher’s role changes as well. The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity.

 

However, tool uses of technology are highly compatible with this new teacher role, since they stimulate so much active mental work on the part of students.

By: Carmina F. Gloria | Teacher I | Wawa Elementary School | Abucay, Bataan