COMPUTER USER VERSUS COMPUTER USAGE

Hello guys! Today I will share to you all about what the criteria of the computer that needed as a lecturer 😊

1)   INPUT DEVICES

• Keyboard

✔ The keyboard is the most common and very popular input device which helps to input data to the computer.

• Mouse

✔ It is a very famous control device having a small palm size box with a round ball at its base, which senses the movement of the mouse and sends corresponding signals to the CPU when the mouse buttons are pressed.

✔ Can be used to control the position of the arrow on the screen, but it cannot be used to enter text into the computer.



2)   OUTPUT DEVICES

• Projector

✔ An optical device that moving images onto a surface, commonly a projection screen.

✔ Most of lecturers use projector during class to show notes, information, video and other to students which is the lecturer connect the projector from the laptop through USB port. So that, the students can view it.

• Printer

✔An external hardware output device that takes the electronic data stored on a computer or other device and generates a hard copy of it.

✔As lecturers, they created a notes on their computer, and they could print several copies to give to students.

• Loud speaker

✔ An electroacoustic transducer; a device which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound

✔ Lecturers using loudspeaker when they open video or something that have sound to ensure that all students in the class can hear it.



3)   SYSTEM UNIT

• Storage : : ROM 500GB

✔ A storage medium that is used with computers and other electronic devices.

✔ As the name indicates, data stored in ROM may only be read

✔ This amount storage is suitable for lecturers which can save the students attendance data, students test or quiz marks, lecturers’ information and others.

• RAM : Minimum 4GB / Maximum 6GB

✔ A super-fast, high speed storage that computer and its applications utilize to store and access temporary data

✔ This amount RAM is suitable for lecturers to save picture, other data that not directly involved to students or other lecturers.

4)   COMMUNICATION DEVICES

• Email

✔ Information stored on a computer that is exchanged between two users over telecommunications

✔ As lecturers, they use email to communicate with students, other lecturers or staff. Sometimes, they could communicate with outsider such as for student visit purpose

• E-learning

✔ A learning system based on formalised teaching but with the help of electronic resources

✔ As a network enabled transfer of skills and knowledge, and the delivery of education is made to a large number of recipients at the same or different times.

✔ Lecturers using E-learning as communication device with students. In this E-learning, the lecturers will share all the notes, assessment and other task. Moreover, it easy to student to submit their assignment through E-learning.

ISSUES IN CURRENT TECHNOLOGY

Hye everyone, today I would like to share with you guys about issues in current technology among lecturers. Despite increasingly widespread adoption of technologies in virtually every aspect education, significant challenges are preventing widespread effective implementation. 

1)   Professional development

Key among all challenges is the lack of adequate, ongoing professional development for teachers who are required to integrate new technologies into their classrooms yet who are unprepared or unable to understand new technologies.

2)   Resistance to change

Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo." According to the researchers, teachers and school leaders often see technological experimentation as outside the scope of their job descriptions.

3)   Failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments

Assessment is an important driver for educational practice and change, and over the last years, a welcome rise in the use of formative assessment in educational practice. However, there is still an assessment gap in how changes in curricula and new skill demands are implemented in education; schools do not always make necessary adjustments in assessment practices as a consequence of these changes. Simple applications of digital media tools, like webcams that allow non-disruptive peer observation, offer considerable promise in giving teachers timely feedback they can use.