Lesson 10 : The computer as a tutor

    The computer is one of the wonders of human ingenuity. The computer can be a tutor in effect relieving the teacher of many activities in his/her person role as classroom tutor. But that doesn’t mean that teacher is no longer useful because we have the computer now. The teacher here will be the one to manipulate the computer not the computer manipulate the teacher.

   Computer is very helpful to me since I don’t know some information and I was being curios about something. And all I have to do is to just type my question and click the search button and every  related information with I have ask where there and give me some possible answer and all I have to do is to read it and then that’s it.

Computer-assisted instruction (CAI)

    The computer can be a tutor in effect relieving teacher of many activities in his personal role as classroom tutor. It should be made clear, however, that the computer cannot totally replace the teacher since the teacher shall continue to play the major roles of information deliverer and learning environment controller. Even with the available computer and CAI software, the teacher must;

  Insure that students have the needed knowledge and skills for    any computer activity

·         Decide the appropriate learning objectives

·         Plan the sequential and structured activities to achieve objectives

·         Evaluate the students’ achievements by ways of tests the specific expected outcomes.

On the other hand, the student in CAI play their own roles as learners as they;

·         Receive information

·         Understand instruction for the computer activity

·         Retain/keep in mind the information and rules for the computer activity

·         Apply the knowledge and rules during the process of computer learning.

During the computer activity proper in CAI the computer too plays its roles as it:

·         Act as a sort of tutor (the role traditional played by the teacher)

·         Provides a learning environment

·         Delivers learning instruction

·         Reinforces learning through drill and practice

·         Provides feedback