Lesson 1: ICT Competency Standards for Philippine Pre-Service Teacher Education

5 Advantage and Disadvantage of using social networks. Advantage: 1.       Connectivity - It is the first and main goal of the social media because you can communicate to your relatives within across countries or people around the world. 2.       Education – Using social media everyone can benefit not just the students and teachers. There are many educational matters around the world that you can learn or share through surfing in the internet. It’s either you can educate everyone or you are the who can learn from them. 3.       Help – Sometimes when we feel down or empty and we thought nobody can comfort us, you can also use the social media to share your problems and get some advices from the community. Remember that there is always a place for everything. In that case at least they can be able to help you. 4.       Information and Updates – Through the social media we can ge...

The Profile of a Modern Teacher             Others says that 21 st century teachers are not experts in technology – they are experts in habits of mind. Maybe because of the rapid change of technology regarding on promoting quality teaching-learning process so some teachers have difficulty to cope up with the rapid change because they were used to some habits of mind.   Some modern teachers see themselves as co learners, not teachers because they are still in the process of learning or adjusting from the development of technology when it comes to teaching-learning process. They need also to step outside their comfort zone in order to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the development and utilization of ICT in promoting quality teaching-learning process. Embrace change and allow yourself to fail often, practice makes good because there is no such perfect. Allow your students to teach each other because some students kno...