Educational Technology

Lesson 4

●Teaching with Dramatized Experiences;

●Demonstrations in Teaching;

●Making the Most of Community Resources.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Dramatic experiences come next to contrived experiences in the cone of experience.●Do these dramatic experiences require us to be dramatic in our entrance and in our lesson presentations?

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Dramatic is something that is stirring, affecting or moving.●Dramatic Entrance is something that catches and holds attention, and has emotional impacts.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Dramatized Experiences can range from:

– Formal Plays– Pageants– Tableau– Pantomime– Puppets– Role-playing

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Plays depict life, character, culture, or a combination of the three.●They offer excellent opportunities to portray vividly important ideas about life.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Pageants are usually community dramas that are based on local history.●An example is a historical pageant that traces the growth of a school.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Pantomime is an “art of conveying a story through bodily movements.”●The effects of pantomime to the audience depends on the movements of the actors.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Tableau is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Puppets - A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer.●Puppets can present ideas with extreme simplicity.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Types of Puppets

– Shadow puppets – flat, black silhouette made from lightweight cardboard shown behind a screen.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Types of Puppets

– Rod puppets – flat, cut-out figures tacked to a stick with one or more movable parts, and are operated below the stage through wires or rods.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Types of Puppets

– Glove-and-finger puppets – make use of gloves which small costumed figures are attached.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Types of Puppets

– Marionettes – flexible, jointed puppets operated by strings or wires attached to a cross bar and maneuvered from directly above the stage.

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences●Role-Playing is an unrehearsed, unprepared and spontaneous dramatization of a situation where assigned participants are absorbed by their own roles.

Demonstrations in Teaching

Demonstrations in Teaching

●Demonstration is a public showing and emphasizing of the salient merits, utility, efficiency, etc. of an article or product.

Demonstrations in Teaching

●Components of a Demonstration– Audience– Speaker– Method, Product, Proof

Demonstrations in Teaching

●Using demonstration in classroom:– Establish rapport.– Avoid COIK fallacy (Clear Only If Known)– Watch for key points

Demonstrations in Teaching

●Point to Remember– A good demonstration is an audio-visual

demonstration.– Before demonstration: set objectives, prepare

materials, plan the steps, and rehearse.– During demonstration: sustain the interest of

the audience, keep it simple, check for understanding, have a summary, and provide hand-outs (if possible).

Making the Most of Community Resources

Making the Most of Community Resources●Field Trip - A field trip or excursion, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment.

Making the Most of Community Resources●Field Trips must be planned precisely.

– Preliminary planning (teacher)– Secondary planning (teacher and other

people)– Taking the field trip– Post-field trip follow-up.

Making the Most of Community Resources●During planning:

– Plan the entire lesson (of the field trip).– Arrange with school heads the details of the trip.– Plan then contact the places to visit.– Provide a route plan.– Discuss objectives, procedure, and other things

concerning the lesson with the students.– Communicate with the parents.– Discuss safety measures, and safety guidelines.

Making the Most of Community Resources●Advantages

– Opportunities for rich and memorable experiences which are fundamental to learning.

– Brings learners to the world beyond the classroom.

– Have wide range of applications.– Brings plenty of realizations.

Making the Most of Community Resources●Disadvantages

– It is costly.– It involves logistics.– It is extravagant with time.– Has elements of uncertainty.

Making the Most of Community Resources●Other Community Resources

– Community Resource Speaker– Public and Private Libraries– Botanical Gardens– Historical Places– Scenic Spots

Summary

Summary

When applying other bands of the cone of experience:●Satisfy the needs of the students.●Satisfy the lesson objectives.●Know the pros and cons of the instructional material or educational technology to be used.●Prepare the material/technology ahead of time.●Follow other guidelines.

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