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COMPUTER IN EDUCATION
ASSIGNMENT 1
TITTLE: COMPUTER AS TOOL, TUTOR AN
TUTEE

NAME: Izyan Safira Binti Ibrahim (A155455)

GROUP: T1
SESSION: 2015/2016
LECTURER: Dr. Fariza Bt Khalid

INTRODUCTION
Computer is the main technology used in education nowadays because of
the new education paradigm that spurs the teachers to make the students
integrate with the ICT. Computer plays many roles in education which it
can be separated under three; computer as tool, computer as tutor and
computer as tutee. The use of computers in todays education should be
more emphasized because of the demand in the 21st century skills.
Teachers and students should be more integrated with the ICT

Computer as tool
The computer as tool can be divided into a few sections which are
information tool, communication tool, constructive tool, co-constructive
tool and situating tool. Computer can provide a lot of information in many
forms for example; text, graphics, sound and video (Information tool).
Computer can be used to manipulate information, visualizing one
understands and building new knowledge such as Microsoft Word itself
allows users to organize and present their ideas in fascinating format
(constructive tool). On ways of co-constructive is the use of the electronic
whiteboard where students may post notices to a shared document/
whiteboard. Students can also co-edit the similar documents from home.
As for situating tool, the computer can create 3-D images on display to
give the user the feeling that are situated in a real environment. For
example, the flight simulator which places the user in a simulated flying
situation.

Computer as tutor (TEACHER)

Computer as tutor acts a sort of tutor ( a role played by teacher) because
it can provide a learning environment, give information, delivers learning
instruction, reinforces learning through drill-and-practice and also to
provide feedback. Being computer as the tutor, the teacher must at least
have the knowledge and skills for any computer activities. The examples
of computer as tutor are quiz, tutorial, exercise, and games.

Computer as tutee (STUDENT)

The computer can also be a learner (tutee) where you can give it the
order to do some tasks, for example, in Microsoft Excel you can give it the
instruction on how to differentiate the value of numbers and sort them
according to grade that you wanted. But first, students or teachers need
to learn to program, to talk to the language that can be understood by the
computers. Computers make a good tutee because of its innocence,
patience, rigidity and its capacity for being initialized and started over
from scratch

CONCLUSION
To recapitulate, computing will play an increasing important role in todays
education. However, not many people have discovered how great the role
would be, or precisely what form it will finally take. Thus, it is up to us to
keep upgrading these systems and also to make sure teachers will not be
irreplaceable for computers. Computers have various applications that can
help to ease learning process such as computer-based instruction,
computer-assisted instruction and computer-assisted learning.

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