...1. Allegory -An allegory is a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example. Usually a rhetoric device, an allegory suggests a meaning via metaphoric examples. 2. Alliteration -Alliteration is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Whether it is the consonant sound or a specific vowel group, the alliteration involves creating a repetition of similar sounds in the sentence. Alliterations are also created when the words all begin with the same letter. Alliterations are used to add character to the writing and often add an element of ‘fun’ to the piece.. 3. Allusion -An allusion is a figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference. It is up to the reader to make a connection to the subject being mentioned. 4. Amplification -Amplification refers to a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability. When a plain sentence is too abrupt and fails to convey the full implications desired, amplification comes into play when the writer adds more to the structure to give it more meaning. 5. Anagram -Anagrams are an extremely popular form of literary device wherein the writer jumbles up parts of the...
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...Problem & Its Background Instructional material is an important tool in the teaching process. As our world evolves, the technology is also evolving and we can’t deny the fact that it is happening also to education. One of the examples is the modern technologies used by some of the teachers as their instructional materials. (Richards) Before, children were taught in a rigid and stereotyped way. Teachers used authentic or created materials as their tool in teaching the learners. Nowadays, there are lots of instructional materials to be used in teaching. There are new trends on language teaching and this is by the use of modern technology as their instructional material. These instructional materials include laptops, LCD projector, speech laboratory, power point presentation, tablets, etc. By the use of it, learners can relate to their discussion. Instructional materials serves as the basis for match of the language input learners and the language practice that occurs in the classroom. They can provide a detailed specification of content, even in the absence of the syllabus (Richards and Rodgers, 1986). It is an important element within the curriculum and their often tangible and visible aspect of it (Nunan, 1991). Technology has become an integral part of higher education instruction with the increased use of technology; instructional resources like the textbooks are slowly making their way into the higher education system. The use of technology is still increasing although...
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...Malaysian Online Journal of Instructional Technology ISSN : 1823-1144 Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2005 Strategies for Effective Communication of Educational Instructions in Nigeria Ezeja Ogili School of Distance Learning and Continuing Education Institute of Management and Technology Enugu, South-East, Nigeria Abstract Effective communication is usually the result of a careful selection of the appropriate medium or combination of media available. This is to ensure the transmission of message from one source to another by the use of form or illustration that seems desirable. It is referred to as the interaction of an individual or group with the environment through all the senses. The practical justification is that it is an instrument for accelerating the pace of all human transformation, to shake-off inertia in a people, achieve mobilisation and direct their productive forces in improving their living condition. This is also to show the relevance of teaching as a profession and the impact of a teacher in influencing the future development and growth of a learner. Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) design, production and their use facilitate the teaching and learning outcomes. However, the success of using the TLMs to meet the teaching objectives demands effective communication to satisfy instructional delivery. INTRODUCTION Communication as a concept has its origin from a Latin word ‘communicare’ which means to share or establish commonness. It can therefore be said that human...
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...degree of competition among countries, the success of a nation depends on the educational level of its workforce. Governments should work to ensure that all citizens receive the technological training and experience necessary to participate in the global economy. Education reform is essential to provide learners with what are commonly called 21st century skills — those competencies and values needed to become responsible citizens in a learning society and sustain employability throughout life in a knowledge economy. Thus, the researcher decided to formulate this research to provide our educational system one of the devices that will make a difference in the manner of teaching. In classrooms, technology can be a powerful catalyst for pedagogical change, as students use technology to take a more active role in personalizing their own education, and teachers take on new roles as facilitators of knowledge rather than knowledge transmitters. Our educational system as well as the curriculum has gone through many different changes and development. As defined, development is the systematic use of scientific and technical knowledge to meet specific objectives or requirements. It is the process of adding improvements to a theoretical or practical aspects of a concept, design, discovery, or invention. Curriculum development needs to pass into a proper examination and validation. On the other, validation is the process of checking data against a standard or criteria. It provides an...
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...long time intervened between the child's response and the teacher's reinforcement. The teacher very often used the lecture method which was not much effective for meaningful learning. The teacher did not use other visual material to supplement his oral teaching. The teacher of today does not consider the child as a vessel waiting to be filled up with facts nor as a pliable plastic material, which can be transformed into any shape enabling him to project his ideas on it. The modern teacher to Good (2003) considers each child as akin to a plant and helps the child to grow according to its abilities and aptitudes. He helps the child to learn. He realizes that “to teach is to nourish or cultivate the growing child or to give him intellectual exercise or to train him in the horizontal sense of directing or guiding his growth”. The modern teacher sees education as a process of interaction between the child and his environment. Children learn by doing and learn how to learn in groups and also individually. Increase in population and explosion of knowledge are affecting the pattern of human life and also inflicting its full impact on education and this is possible by the use of instructional materials which can be considered as the development of educational technology. However, there’s some discrepancies occur especially the accomplishments of students whether the main factor of learning is the self or merely due...
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...packages in mathematics, studies on development, evaluation and validation of CAI materials. Instruction and Learning Instruction is the arrangement of information and environment to facilitate learning. By environment, we mean not only where instruction takes place but also the methods, media and equipment needed to convey information and guide the learner’s study. Information and environment can be arranged on a continuum from very formal to very informal. The relationship between information and environment can change depending on the instructional goal. The arrangement of information and the environment is normally the responsibility of the instructor and the designers of media. The choice of the strategy of instruction determines the environment (the methods, media, equipment and facilities) and how the information is assembled and used. The method can range from teacher control to learner control. Learning is the development of new knowledge, skills, or attitudes when the individual interacts with information and environment. Learning takes place all the time. We learn something just walking down the street and observing what goes on around us, or watching TV, or conversing with other people. But this type of incidental learning is not our major interest as education and training professionals. We are primarily concerned with the learning that takes place in response to our instructional efforts. How we design and arrange instruction...
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...review of modern mobile phone as an educational environment. The modern world has opened a new era with its opportunities. Modern mobile phone has become one of these opportunities in terms of its being a basic element in daily life. After enormous advances in mobile phone technology, the field of education has considered it necessary to bring modern mobiles into the teaching and learning environment. With the advent of smartphones, students and educators have both overcome the hardships in the education system and these devices make learning possible to occur outside the traditional classroom environment at anytime and in anyplace. Keywords: mobile phones, learning and teaching English, technology Introduction Within educational research, smartphones, a popular inevitable device for almost everyone, are gradually emerging as a new educational environment. This paper aims to review various studies on mobiles in terms of education. Learning based on date back a long time. From the seventies on, technological advances have stimulated and promoted many modern progressive learning means. The advances in technology have been put into use to prevent classroom barriers in the process of learning and to keep learning materials in pace with the knowledge level of the students. Especially, portable devices that include smart teaching applications present the learners many opportunities to learn at anytime and in any place. One of these portable devices is the modern smartphone...
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...Technology and Training Jennifer Mitchell BUS 375 Instructor Charles Orgbon January 30, 2012 Technology Taking Over Electronic technology has worked its way into just about every area of American society. The new technologies are changing jobs and the training that is received for these jobs. This paper is going to look at technology and how it has impacted the way employees are trained. The attitudes towards technology and the laws that surround it will be shown. Different tools that are used with technology in training will also be given. The things that technology has allowed to occur for training will also be looked at. Technology is becoming a part of training in many organizations and it is growing with new methods being used as new technologies are formed. Technology Attitudes and Law The technology in the workplace is changing very rapidly and companies that can't keep up will drop out of competition. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports that less than $1500 per employee was spent for training in 1996. The largest part of that (49 percent) was spent for technical and professional training. Only two percent was spent for New Employee Orientation and three percent on quality, competition and business practices training (Reh, 2012). Computers and associated technology have become central to modern life. In a society where the population is rapidly ageing, the acceptance and utilization...
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...RCAP 2008 Rationales and Recommendations for Compliance for MLS, DMS, MLT, HT/HTL, CG, and PathA programs (*compatible with merged Guide to Accreditation) (version: October 2011) [pic] |Standard 1 | |Standard 1 | | |1-1 |The [sponsoring institution/affiliate(s)] is (are) not accredited by a recognized |1-1 |Submit documentation that the [sponsoring institution] [affiliate(s)] is (are) | | |agency. | |currently accredited by a recognized agency. | |1-2 |There is (are) no signed agreement(s) with [affiliate(s)] |1-2 |Submit a copy of a signed and dated current agreement with _______________________. | | | | | | |1A-1 |The agreement does not address the reason for the agreement |1A-1 |Submit (an) (the) agreement(s) which address(es)...
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...IMPLICATIONS OF USING ONLINE REVIEW MATERIALS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ACCOUNTANCY STUDENTS REGARDING THEIR MAJOR SUBJECTS An Undergraduate Thesis Presented to the Faculty Of the College of Business Administration and Accountancy Mabini College Daet, Camarines Norte In Partial Fulfilment Of the Requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Accountancy BINAOHAN, ARIANNE JOY V. DELOS SANTOS, DENVER S. DIPASUPIL, NIZILLE C. PENOLIO, JAMES ANTHONY SAN BUENAVENTURA, MYLA H. SOTTO, LYNETTE R. CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction It is the 21st Century, the Digital and Technological Age as many people say. The World Wide Web has expanded significantly over the past decades and new electronic and digital gadgets and devices are being invented and innovated. According to Networkworld.com, the number of computers connected to the internet has grown exponentially, while the number of users has risen from a handful of computer scientists to 1.5 billion consumers. The networks reached have expanded beyond the United States to every corner of the globe. From its humble beginnings to its boundless future, Technology has provided the World with greater possibilities and opportunities that affects various ways of life thus, making it easier. Due to these unfathomable advancements in Technology, People nowadays, specifically the students utilize the Internet and these hi-tech...
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...experiences, new findings, and values accumulated over the years, in his struggle for survival and development through generations. Education enables individuals and society to make an all-round participation in the developmental process, by acquiring knowledge, ability, skills, and attitudes. According to the Regional Memorandum No.88, s.1993 – A longer time spent in teaching Filipino from first year and up. It also provides that students should be encouraged to undertake Filipino experiments and teaching should require maximum students activity with emphasis on reflection level lessons. Filipino subject is one of the difficult subjects in the learning process. This subject requires not only day to day lectures but actual manipulation of materials, experimentation, observation, and other scientific process. Some teachers do not have expertise in teaching the subject and they have lack of resources in making the discussion more real and interesting....
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...As subjective as it is, it was already influenced by insights from colleagues in the academia as well as students exposed to technology use in their classrooms. 1. Every Biology teacher is unique in terms of personal characteristics, educational background, attitudes, beliefs, and use of educational technology. 2. Biology requires a “discipline-specific” use of technology in the delivery of pedagogical content. Existing educational technology tools in schools which may be suitable for other fields of study will not always work efficiently when teaching Biology. 3. The level of Educational Technology use by Biology Teachers in the Philippines is low as even in rich/ industrialized countries, there is infrequent use of educational technology tools. 4. A Biology Teacher’s effectiveness and efficiency is directly proportional to his/her use of technology especially those focused on multimedia instruction. 5. Teachers cannot rely on schools to train them. They must start within themselves if they are competent enough or use an instructional video self-training package that can not only teach but also motivate...
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...Training Strayer University Dr. Carden February 12, 2015 Overview in Effective Lesson Planning: Planning your lesson ahead can effectively reach goals and objectives. In education, the planning tool is the lesson plan, which is a detailed description of an instructor’s course of instruction for an individual lesson. Lesson plans communicate to learners what they will learn and how they will be assessed. They help instructors organize content, materials, time, instructional strategies, and assistance in the classroom. Lesson planning help instructors create a smooth instructional flow and relate instructions to learners. Adults participate in continuing professional development for a number of reasons. With most adults is the need to maintain and/or improve current skills and abilities that are relevant to ones job. The reasons for participation are generally external to traditional academic expectations, such as fulfilling degree requirements. As such, developing instructional materials for adults requires a deeper level of understanding of the motivations, needs, and reasons behind their participation in a learning environment. The purpose of this guide is to provide curriculum developers and teachers of adults with information leading to a more balanced understanding of how and why adults learn, the rationale behind course development methods and techniques for this audience, and information on the learning process itself. Fundamental principles...
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...performance in Biology in senior secondary schools in Ondo State. To guide the study, four research questions were raised. The multi-stage sampling technique was used to collect data from two hundred teachers (200) as respondents. A validated questionnaire titled: Teacher Quality as Correlates of Student Academic Performance with the used of simple frequency counts and percentage for analysis. From the data analysis it was revealed that: the role of professionally qualified/trained teachers is an important teacher quality which enhances students’ academic achievement in biology, teaching methods adopted by the teachers significantly influence achievement of the behavior objectives. Several schools in the population of the study lacked modern instructional materials without which effective teaching and learning cannot be utilized and teachers’ experience significantly influence students academic performance; capacity building forms a major aspect of teachers’ experience that is yet to be given adequate attention. Its importance cannot be over emphasized in view of senior secondary school student’s poor performance in both internal and external examinations. Based on these findings,...
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...Benefits of Learning and Technology Today, technology is a major part of life. Schools and workplaces alike are utilizing the modern forms of learning and communication to teach material and get work done. From online presentations to budding autodidacts, technology plays a major role in the school system today. It is found that over seventy-four percent of educators in the United States alone support the use of technology (Mehlinger, Powers). Projected as early as 1996, it was said that technology would reform schools for the better (Knapp, Roehrig, Glenn). And, this statement is not far from the truth. Technology has proven itself to be a growing advancement in instructional settings and for personal use, and impacts us in different ways. Various types of technology in schools have impacted students for the better by promoting personalized learning with three easy steps. The first step to incorporating technology in schools is familiarization. This step requires both the instructor and student to learn the product or software they plan to integrate into education. Familiarization may lead to using the tools the student and teacher get acquainted to, but it may also lead to ideas and new experiences that help the expanding of knowledge. This initial process has several flaws and is very likely the most time consuming. This phase contains a good bit of instructional innovation as it may start and end the integration process. Even though several students may not want to endure...
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