Lesson 12

Information Technology in Support of Student-Centered Learning

 

CONTENT

The idea of a student-centered learning has already been realized by early educators. Since then, educators have already realized the need for an active and an instruction centered at students to cope with the fast changing world. Traditional learning is teacher centered, that means to say, the teacher is the sole source of information, the center of the teaching and learning process and students are just passive learners. With SCL, students are more involved in the process of their learning, hence, they are no longer passive but has become active learners. A student-centered learning makes students more critical and creative thinkers.

Since our world is changing, information technology also has been incorporated in the SCL approach in teaching. In the process, students are not active in learning but teachers job has been made easier because computers aid them in their instruction and somehow do their job (but not to the point of totally replacing them).

Student-centered learning plus information technology makes the teaching and learning more productive. There is total shifting from the traditional learning to the new one. Information technology offers so many ways from which the teacher can make his/her lesson more updated in content and updated in methods. Learners can access to any information through the Internet.