ASSIGNMENT IN EDUCATION 5

  

ROCEL E. FUERTE              BSEd III-A TTh- 10:00- 11:30

Activity: Answer the following questions:

1.Describe the Educational System of Bhutan. Itemize your answer.

Peace education programs centered on conflict resolution typically focus on the social-behavioural symptoms of conflict, training individuals to resolve inter-personal disputes through techniques of negotiation and (peer) mediation. Learning to manage anger, “fight fair” and improve communication through skills such as listening, turn-taking, identifying needs, and separating facts from emotions, constitute the main elements of these programs. Participants are also encouraged to take responsibility for their actions and to brainstorm together on compromises. IN general, approaches of this type aim to “alter beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors from negative to positive attitudes toward conflict as a basis for preventing violence. There are various styles or approaches in conflict resolution training that can give the practitioner the means to accept the conflictual situation and orient it towards a peaceful resolution. As one peer mediation coordinator put it: “Conflict is very natural and normal, but you can’t go through your entire life beating everybody up you have to learn different ways to resolve conflict

2.Discuss the SIF ICT in education project briefly.

This report about Collaboration in Teaching and Learning (CTL) focuses on the information and Communications technologies (ICT) that enable collaborative learning to happen online and includes School education, vocational education and training and higher education. Collaborative learning is one of the areas of investigation commissioned by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) as part of the Strategic ICT Advisory Service (SICTAS) project. The report briefly describes the theories that underpin collaborative learning, the skills that are necessary for its success, the implications of collaborative learning on teaching practice, on students, and the spaces in which learning occurs. ICT and collaborative learning provides opportunities to reduce the educational disadvantage experienced by Australians in remote and rural communities, and provide learning experiences that cater to diverse student groups, as well as providing students with the literacy skills needed to function effectively in the digital world.

3. What is Bhutan's EIT Curriculum?

The core curriculum set by the National Board of Secondary Education included English, mathematics, and Dzongkha. Although English was used as the language of instruction throughout the junior high and high school system, Dzongkha, and, in southern Bhutan until 1989, Nepali, were compulsory subjects. Students also studied English literature, social studies, history, geography, general science, biology, chemistry, physics, and religion. Curriculum development often has come from external forces, as was the case with historical studies. Most Bhutanese history is based on oral traditions rather than on written histories or administrative records. A project sponsored by UNESCO and the University of London developed a ten-module curriculum, which included four courses on Bhutanese history and culture and six courses on Indian and world history and political ideas. Subjects with an immediate practical application, such as elementary agriculture, animal husbandry, and forestry, also were taught

4. Explain the categories on the Use of Computer Technology in Education.

Educational technology has both general and specialized meanings. To the lay public and to a majority of educators, the term refers to the instructional use of computers, television, and other kinds of electronic hardware and software. Specialists in educational technology, in particular college and university faculty who conduct research and teach courses on educational technology, prefer the term instructional technology because it draws attention to the instructional use of educational technology. This term represents both a process and the particular devices that teachers employ in their classrooms. According to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, one of the principal professional associations representing educational technologists, "Instructional Technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems, and devising, implementing evaluating, and managing solutions to these problems, in situations in which learning is purposive and controlled."(p. 4). Educational technologists often employ the term instructional media to represent all of the devices that teachers and learners use to support learning. However, for many educators the terms educational technology, instructional media, and instructional technology are used interchangeably, and they are used so here. In addition, the principal focus will be upon the most modern computational and communication devices used in schools today.