Dear All,
Every year, our university holds the Science and Technology Congress as a venue to impart and diffuse the various research projects undertaken by the faculty and the students.
Everyone is enjoined to attend any 3 CS or Educ related sessions in the Science and Technology Congress 2012 to be held on Feb. 15 & 16.
Recommended sessions:
Feb. 16 Y504
10.20-10.40 - The GLE Project: an attempt to understand learning from the views of the millennial learners
10.40-11.00 The DLSU 100 Schools Project: implementing an ID framework for HS teachware
Write a two-three paragraph reaction or reflection on the sessions you have attended. Discuss the main topic, it's relevance and weaknesses (if there are any) in our field and the society. Post them here as a reply in this blog on or before Feb. 21.
Please take this opportunity to immerse yourselves and learn about the researches done in our university.
Thank you.
No session on Feb. 17. See you @S&T Congress 2012. :)
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After attending some of the seminars in the Science and Technology congress, I realized that people are already trying different ways to improve life using technology. Technology has already made its way in improving education. By using technology, I believe that learning will become more easier and more efficient to the future generations. By fusing technology and education together, it can provide a never-ending improvement. A lot of students today are addicted to computers, so by using this to education, it will get the student's attention more.
I believe that education and technology has a lot in store for us in the future. I also believe that being an IST student has a good future career so I'm happy that I chose this path!
The S&T Congress 2012, wherein Sir Liandro Tabora was the speaker, was about the 100 Schools Project of De La Salle University. 100 School Project was a project on making a teachware that implements an instructional design framework for the High School teachers. This teachware was designed and developed by Chesca Pacheco, Andrew Pamorada, Ainsly Sy, and Elaine de Dios, who just currently passed their thesis. This teachware is a tool wherein multimedia is used to make instructional design that instructors use to teach. Instructional design is the analysis of learning and performance problems, and the design, development, implementation and evaluation of instructional process. Basically, the design is to give a scenario, then the explanation of the given scenario or how does it work, then formal definition and lastly, more examples or assessment.
For me, this is a great tool in learning since most of the students nowadays are tech-savvy. In addition to this, the society is now finding people who are computer literate rather than a person who doesn’t know how to use a computer. In my opinion, students can use this and turn it into an advantage for the future. And with the limitations we have in school right now, we, CS-IST students, must create something that will benefit most of the people. We must also utilize what we have right now. Students from the college of education or teachers can be used as content experts or consultants in order to make a teachware that will benefit the society.
-Jill Tan
When I attended the S&T Congress, I was amazed and interested with the thesis of the students such as a new system for the nurses that is effective and efficient, how picture books can be instructive for young children, how images can be considered as a symbol; the website that contains the teaching videos of the students which they share their learning experience that could not be found in any textbook, teachwares that does not only helps students but helps teachers teach because relying mostly on black board and manila paper may not be as interactive as the program itself, chemistry analysis; historical findings of our country and many more. I was inspired with their ideas and also I started to think what I want to research about, they focused more on the simple items that we usually ignore but when researched further we can see its not what it seems. There are many more to come and what we can do to improve things by sharing our research findings. This congress can also be helpful in sharing ideas and some hints on what the thesis structure looks like.
From attending this I realized that for science it may need the help of our course. We may not be as educated as the ones in science but the point is to learn from their perspective and be creative in how to make it more interactive. The weakness of this program is the implementation, sometimes in order to show its effectiveness is the support of the relative people on making this project to a success, these could be one of the difficulties of the program. Its takes more than a presentation and documents but what matters is the experience to make it more convincing.
I was able to attend the session about the DLSU 100 Schools Project. The said project aims to develop teaching tools for teachers to be able to maximize their ways in imparting knowledge amongst their students. The developers and content experts selected the 10 most relevant topics that a 1st year HS students must remember, and would develop a teachware in line with these chosen topics. They also used the DepEd's latest curriculum based on the Understanding By Design reference.
The teachware is designed to equip the teachers with an added tool in teaching the students. It is developed using Instructional design because students have a hard time retaining information, and the educators believe that through real life examples, the students would have enough interest to grasp the topics taught to them.
I think that this project would greatly help the beneficiary schools in educating the learners. The development of teachwares would serve as a solution to the evident problem in education of teaching topics based on books alone and letting the students memorize terms that they hardly understand. By providing examples and helping the teachers teach their lessons in an interactive way would not only get the attention of the students but would also increase the interest of the students in learning more about the topic. It also promotes the use of technology as an effective medium in imparting knowledge. I think the DLSU 100 Schools Project is a great project developed by DLSU for it's 100 years. It shows how Lasallians are really into solving the problems related to education and using the resources and technology, our generation are lucky to have, to bring a better solution to these problems.
Sadly, this was the only session I was able to attend. I had a class prior to this session so I missed the GLE Project.
Alyssa Basilio
I attended Mr. Ian’s discussion about “100 Schools Project”. As a future instructional designer, I realized my value in this society. Developing teachware for different schools would really benefit the quality of education in the Philippines. I believe as a student that learners would most likely absorb effectively the lessons when delivered and presented properly by their instructors.
Being an IST Major, I agree with Mr. Taborra’s statement that the key to better learning relies on the delivery of instruction. We create teachware, courseware or mobile applications to help instructors deliver instruction efficiently and guide learners to understand important concepts accurately. As instructional designers, we provide solutions to address various learning problems existing. We develop teachware or courseware based on underlying learning theories to make sure that learners and instructors would meet its instructional objectives.
Truth be told, the future of improving the quality of education in our society is in our hand. We really do have an important role to play in this society, that is, improve student’s learning and instructor’s teaching.
After the presentation of Sir Ian Tabora on “The DLSU 100 Schools Project: Implementing an ID framework for HS teachware”, I realized my real worth as an instructional designer. The 100 Schools project was initiated by the College of Education and developed by the Instructional Systems Technology students from the College of Computer Studies. This project focuses on creating teachware for subjects like English, Science and Mathematics. Traditional teaching of this subjects require teaching tools such as manila papers with lectures, flash cards, graphs printed on card boards, etc. This way, it is hard for the instructors to show different processes that will be easier to teach using advanced technology. Students are bombarded by a lot of information presented all at the same time. In developing the teachware, the instructional designers made it to a point that students will be able to understand concepts using scenarios that are relevant to them. This way, they will realize the significance of what they are learning and apply it in their everyday lives.
The DLSU 100 Schools Project is a very remarkable project. This will help teachers, both in public and private schools, to have better tools in teaching. The teachware, researched and designed by instructional designers, will be a support tool for them to teach lessons more effectively. With the help of this project, maybe more teachers who work in the 100 schools in the Philippines will be more inspired to teach.
Sadly I was not able to attend the GLE session because I think the schedule changed. I was able to attend Dr.Clark's and Dr.Tabora's session which were both really interesting.
Dr.Clark's session was about the study to determine the factors that contribute to the secondary school students choice of an undergraduate program especially in the Science programs. She mentioned the low number of female students in Science subjects and I agree to that as there really is fewer girls than guys in our course. She pointed out some of the factors that affected the student's choice and the one that shocked me was parent's influence. I guess parents' decisions still influence their children until today.
Dr. Tabora's session on the other hand was about the DLSU 100 schools project on implementing the instructional design framework in teachwares. I personally agree that instructional design is an important part in making learning materials. I believe that a majority of teachers especially in the high school level have no idea of instructional design or teachwares. So I support the 100 schools project of Dr. Tabora and as an instructional designer, I will use the 100 schools project as inspiration to continue in designing quality instructional media that will help in improving the education in our country.
I was able to attend the seminar on 100 school project by Sir Ian Tabora. He talked about what teachware is, how it is different from the traditional power point, and how the beneficiary teachers reacted to the software.
I think the strength of the project would be the new way of teaching. It is not the typical texts or pictures only. It is specially designed for the subject and its target audience. It is built for more interaction and visualization between the student and the teacher.
The weaknesses would be the topics wherein teachware could be applied is limited. Not all topics under the sun can be supported with teachware. Also, some topics change information after a few years. So there is a need for changes.
Reflection by: Anne Gabrielle Guzman
The first seminar I attended was entitled "The Anti-Rinderpest Caccine: A great contribution of the
Philippines to the Scientific World". This paper was delivered by Mr. Arleigh Ross D. Dela Cruz. The
purpose of Mr. Dela Cruz in creating this paper is to formally record the accounts that of the first
contribution of Philippine veterenarians globally. I find this very relevant because even if the
topic engages a different study I think that with today's technological availability past records
are easier to account. In addition, what currently happens can be information that is readily
available for future learners or researchers. I reckon people in the future will have a hard time to
identify and document records. This just shows how lucky we are to be part of such a generation that
has such unique tools to aid learning.
The second talk I was able to attend was on the analysis of the Venn Diagram by J. Joaquin. I was
thoroughly fascinated by the fact that he showed that the mathematical use of the Venn Diagram was
imperfect and how he tried to resolved such imperfection. He was able to achieve this by breaking
some mathematical truths inorder to prove new ones. Again, albeit this paper was of a different
field I find its relevance in how one's learning process should be. Mr. J. Joaquin showed that you
are taught to absorb knowledge but it is up to you to bend the rules accordingly if you know enough
and that learning is something that should not be constricted.
The last session that I was able to go to was Sir Tabora's discussion of the framework used for the
100 Schools Project of DLSU. This framework was essentially an output of the principle Understanding
by Design. This followed a flow from the scenario the learner will garner an explanation of the
topic. Then followed by a formal definition and an assessment to measure how much one has learned.
This type of flow has been common for several projects we've created in IST. In his talk though what
caught my attention was the reaction of the college of Education students. I was happy to see that
they were very thrilled to the idea of the teachware project and they were able to show great
appreciation. Having an IST principle become appreciated by people from another field means alot to
me because it shows the relevance and influence of what we do in the society that is why I feel that
this was the highlight of the talk.
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During the Science and Technology Congress 2012, one of the talks is about the Great Learning Experience project. This project’s aim was to make the people understand how the students of the new millennia learn. Furthermore, the students were tasked to create a short video clip on how students learn as of the technology advancements of today. One of the videos that I remembered was the use of social media, which was very much significant to almost everyone who has internet access. The talk was very much relevant to our course, Instructional Systems Technology, because it shows how learners of today learn, and how the instructional designers will cope with their technological advancements and how they will design a better and much more effective systems or supporting materials.
Another talk given was about the DLSU 100 Schools project, which was basically implementing the use of teachware in high school in 100 schools, whether private or public, in Luzon. In addition, the curriculum the developers used in the teachwares was the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework which is now being used in the secondary curriculum. The speaker was also able to give a concept on instructional design. As the speaker mentioned, instructional design is the concept in the delivery of instructions. One of the best examples used in instructional design was the use of teachwares and how it works. The topic was also very much relevant to our course because, it’s basically what we, instructional designers, do in the field of science and technology, and education. Using teachware as another teaching tool helps the teachers to teach their students in a better and much effective way.
The seminars that I went to were the following:
• The Anti-Rinderpest Vaccine: A Great Contribution of the Philippine to Scientific World by Arleigh Ross D. Dela Cruz
• A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Cognitive Work Ability Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses by Maria Dominique Rustia & Rosemary Seva
• Great Learning Experience Project (GLE): An Attempt to understand learning from the views of the millennial learners by Maria Victoria Pineda
In the following seminars, I learned a lot of things which are helpful and some just gives me more knowledge like for example, in the first seminar that I went to, it talks about how carabao or cattle dies (bovine animals). There is a virus called Rinderpest who kills the bovine animals and is like measles virus. The talk regarding this lets me know that there is a certain thing in the past that I didn’t know that had happened In the Philippines. I was shocked that there are so much bovine animals that died because of a virus. It was like what happened before, the AH1N1 virus, which spreads across the world where so many people died that’s why there were 1 week break from school, to prevent the viruses from spreading to us. It is sad that because of viruses or other sickness, it can cause deaths to living creatures. But with the help of medicines and technology, they will help our body fight sickness. Although it is quite pricey, but if in exchange for that is your health, then why not? Thanks to the researchers, the remedy against the disease is done. If only there would be no illness, then we can live longer.
Regarding the talk of Ms. Maria, the nurses of our hospitals here in the Philippines were consists of old people only. All the young nurses went to other country to work since the pay there is better and have more opportunity to get a work since other countries needs nurses more than ours but due to younger people going to other places to work, thus our country then needs nurses. The thesis that she made is good for our country because with that help, things will be much safer since the simulation will help the nurses practice and for the hospital to train other nurses or based from the result, will then choose the appropriate nurses. It can also be used for schools since students who studies medics first learn from school before becoming nurses. So training the students will then make them more reliable and give them more courage and self-esteem that they can do whatever needed and be calm and patient. The device done will be useful for our country so that our hospitals and nurses will be much better than before.
Lastly, about the GLE, I think it is accurate to know and understand how students learn nowadays and how they feel. It is true that people nowadays learn by themselves or by researching topics they are interested in or through observing people. Before, we learn by teacher explaining the topics to us in a linear way, but now, not only are the teachers teaching us but also we can search the topics we like, go online chatting with people that have the same interest with you and observing others. In short, the ways to learn nowadays become much broader than before, because before, students only rely on teachers but now, they can rely on other sources. Even I would agree to it because I sometimes learn by observing others and through surfing the net, I can gather many information regarding the topics that I like, and that’s not limited since we can access data all over the world. Because of that, the students should do what they can in order to learn since they shouldn’t wait for the teacher to spoon-feed them in education. By doing this, people will have greater and wider concept on things that they like. I think in the near future, there would be more ways on how students learn that we couldn’t comprehend.
I'm really proud to be a part of the Instructional Systems Design course, because the 100 Schools Project is something that's commendable. It's good that DLSU thought of this project because instructional design should really be practiced all throughout the country. The project continues the school's commitment to teacher and administration training, community service, and resource sharing through ICT. DLSU has become one of the schools that promote Instructional Design, primarily because it is now an important concept in the delivery of instruction and dissemination of information.
Although this can be a step towards innovation, the country may still face difficulties in embracing this field, primarily because of the 'imbalance' in the advancement of technology. Some schools may not really afford to support instructional technology, which is why it's hard for the project team. Figuring out the specifications and limitations are two of the most difficult tasks in project development.
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