 Educational technology involves teaching with technology and teaching with tools. And when we talk of teaching with tools, we are simply talking about non-digital and some traditional tools that we have. And of course, the recent or the modern ICT tools. In this session, we'll discuss about the non-digital and traditional as well as the ICT tools. We'll discuss about how we utilize them in teaching for learning and some of the issues and challenges that we encounter in using them. Research shows that 90% of learning is visual and attention span of our students lasts only for about 15 to 20 minutes. Students often use mobile devices and they study about 40 minutes more each week than those who don't. More than 70% of mobile students use applications or apps that allow them to study with flashcards and some quizzes online. While 60% of our students are willing to pay for an app that supports learning. In higher education, digital technology can offer an experimental space that provides a pedagogical experience, an environment where students can learn at their own pace. Content presented in multiple modalities, graphs, arts, interactive learning, reinforcement and video tutorials to create the illusion of non-mediation. Content presented in small chunks offers an agile app-to-date information. Recent technologies has changed the paradigm of education from consumption, creation to collaboration. Consumption, we consume all the knowledge and information that we gather from these new technologies and we should be able to create something new from this information and we should be able to collaborate to others or share to others what we have created. It's no longer the multiple choice world. There is a need now for big thinking. There is now an explosion of knowledge, new globalized technology driven order. There is more complex wide of problem that we face now involving technology. In teaching, we must be concerned with what technology migrant schools prefer for their instructional materials. We must be concerned what the end users or our students actually need and we teachers must be able to match this need and this migration concern of the schools with what we are teaching, what we can use and what we can actually produce and what we can offer to our students. Teaching involving educational technology is actually anchored on three important things. One is learning teaching strategy. The second one is the mode of interaction that is involved in the teaching learning and the third one is the tool, the task and the content. However, we have to consider also that in anything that we prepare for our students there are three basic concerns that we have to consider like whatever activities we give to our students is our focus on activity, is our focus on communication or our focus is on content. If our focus is on activity then we should provide our students with activities such as case study, conference session, constructivism, expedition based, experiential learning, laboratory or project activities. If our focus is to develop communication skills to our students then we should provide activities such as cooperative learning, guided discussion, social learning or Web 2.0. If our focus is on content then we should do it by chapter, by lecture, by lesson, by module, by subject, by topic, by unit or it could be science focus. Take note that for each of these activities that we would like to provide to our students it has something to do also with the different subject contents that we would like to consider. If the course that we are teaching is mathematics then it's more of activity focus. If it is science based then it is more of activity focus as well. If our focus is to develop critical thinking skills involving content then these activities must be offered or given to students whose courses are heavy on content such as Ralimpan Lipunan or Kasai Science or what we call as history and others. These activities are heavily dependent on the tools that we use and our tools could either be non-digital or digital. Let's take for example boards. We are familiar with the green or black boards that goes well with chalks. We also have what we call the white boards or a more pricey one but portable is we have the wall-to-wall magnetized white boards. We have manila paper or brown paper as we call them when you need an extra board for concepts that you intend to use again. But your paper in locals we call it cartolina when you don't have white boards or want to keep an affinity map for example like the 4 x 48 x 200 feet roll white art paper. Non-digital tools could include painters masking tape to adhere the butcher paper without tripping the room's paint. It could be the flip charts. It could be multiple color packs of post-it notes or categorized affinity maps. It could be index cards. It could be sharpies. It could be notebooks, writing pads, music notebook. It could be math notebooks. It could be an overhead projector an opaque projector, a carousel for your slides, camera using roll films, a megaphone, a videotape such as your VHS or others. We can go on and on but there are more tools now like the digital tools that are better than the non-digital tools. Like for example the white boards. The white boards now has been replaced by the electronic white board an electronic white board where we can use this for typing or writing, drawing and which content can be saved, retrieved or printed. We have the Manila paper or brown paper when we need an extra board as we say in the butcher and all of these activities can be now done using the white board. We have computers now. The pisses, the laptops, the netbooks, the tablets, the smartphones no need for painters masking tape the flip charts nor the charts that we use. We can do them all using the computers. We can do highlighting. We can do tagging as well. We can do note-taking, typing. We can do the things that we are doing using the traditional technologies that we have. The use of traditional approach or the non-digital technologies that goes with it and the digital alternative is the next discussion. If the skill that we want to develop is about note-taking the activity or the traditional approach that we will use is about handwritten notes. The digital alternative to this is brainstorming using text entry tools and word processing softwares using other organizing digital technology such as the blooms and graphical organizers the mind mapping tools. We have also the draw anywhere, the mind map or we can make use of the eye thoughts the simple mind x, the white board hd it could be the eye brainstorm or we can make use of word processing tools such as the open office the star office writer the MS word the adobe buzzword and such as collaborative note-taking tools such as wall-wisher the iPad eye works pages the notes we can also have the stylus text entry the tablet pieces or we can have graphic tablets blogging tools for blogging we have the micro blogging tool we have the posterios or we can even have the ebook creation tool if we want our students to create some activities related to journal writing if the activity is about coming up with diagrams mind maps, graphical organizers and flowcharts our traditional tool is to make use of butcher paper or diagrams and flowcharts the alternative to this is using flowchart mind mapping software such as the glyphy the draw anywhere the white board the eye brainstorm the eye thoughts the mind master the iPad eye thoughts the simple mind x or it could be the white board if the activity is about formal writing the tool is as simple as the paper the alternative to this is using word processing software or a desktop publishing software or an online publishing such as we have the my ebook we have the collaborative writing tools such as the google documents the zaho documents we have the wiki for drafting processes the tool or traditional tool that we use is the drafting table the alternative to this is we make use of word processing software such as the star office you have the MS word you have the notepad you have the prime yard pad we have the collaborative writing such as the google documents the collaborative note taking if the activity is about formal communication example is writing letters then the electronic or digital alternative to this is to make use of the electronic mail and word process documents tools that we can use includes electronic mail online solutions such as Microsoft exchange discussion boards blackboard or web city star office MS word documents and other note takers such as zaho open office adobe buzzword the impress the powerpoint we have the keynote we have the slide share the voice thread the prezi for collaborative writing we can make use of google documents we can make use of wiki or zaho documents the ithar pad or the protagonist if the activity is about informal communications the alternative to this is making use of electronic mail instant messaging or threaded discussion so we have the gmail we have the hotmail we have the first class mobile me we have instant messaging we can make use of model outlook skype eye chat we have the name we have wordpress we have blogger we have edu blogs we have wall wischer and of course we have the twitter if the activity is about research research from the traditional using the encyclopedia the alternative to this is using the online encyclopedia we have online encyclopedia such as the britannica online the wikipedia and the wikipedia schools offline we can make use of the citizen doom we have the living library that we can make use of we have dictionaries the online dictionaries like the oxford dictionary the cambridge dictionary we also have the ipad online dictionary if the activity is about research from those papers journals and magazines the digital alternative to this is to come up or make use of the online newspapers we can make use of web browsers internet explorer safari opera firefax we can have aggregators we can make use of the google scholar as well if we want to do bookmarking tools then we can make use of ipad router app we have the bbc app we have the tvnz app we have the news pro app and others if the activity is about general research then we can make use of some research engines and directories so we can make use of internet explorer the opera the firefax and other online encyclopedias if the activity is about presenting material the traditional way is we simply ask the students to create posters the digital alternative to this is to come up with presentation using presentation software graphic tools web publishing we can make use of presentation software such as impress powerpoint google documents we have the open office we have the voice thread the slide share we have the prezi we have the eye works the keynote the presenter the projector we have the remote story kit or we can make use of the soho documents or we can make use of the microsoft publisher we can make use of the adobe page maker the coral draw the star office the ink space and so many other free resources that we can make use if the activity is about watching videos the alternative to this is coming up or using the digitized resources we can make use of the quick time as the students to use youtube the teacher tube or the ted.com or we can make use of the vlc player if the activity is about journals the traditional way is to process journals come up with diaries and others the digital alternative to this is to come up with blogs micro blogs videos and podcasts for blogs we can make use of classroom blog master first class wordpress the name the blogger edu blogs blog lines we have the posterious we have the wordpress for micro blogging we can make use of twitter we can make use of tweak deck for ipad we can make use of google video teacher tv youtube teacher tube we can make use of audacity voice thread quick voice outlook google calendars for making or coming up with journal or we can make use of your ipad if the activity is about homework and we want our students to come up with traditional homeworks like distributing homework and assignments we can make use of traditional tool such as the pen and the paper but the alternative to this is the electronic mail posting to conferences forums wikis and others digital tools that we can make use include electronic mail such as gmail we have for wiki we can make use of moodle we can make use of blackboard we can make use of moodle for thread discussion we have the first class moodle we have blackboard for blogs we have classroom blog master we have wordpress for micro blogging and sms we can make use of twitter texting and sms online storage drop box idisk mobile me or even the mobile phones if the activity is about collecting homework collecting homework is simply asking the students to pass the paper or the activities of the students the digital alternative to this is coming up or having a drop box the tools that we can make use would include electronic mail online solutions again such as gmail and others we have microsoft exchange we can have thread discussions as well and the ever note if the activity is about paper based tests then the digital alternative to this is having electronic tests electronic tests are now very common and the tools that we can make use would include electronic testing tools such as blackboard Moodle first class education the lambs the survey monkey the dot x the scorm objects it could be hot potatoes and others if the activity is about voting and surveys the traditional is that we use the paper base or show of hands digital tools would include online survey and polling tools such as first class education Moodle the monkey dot x scorm objects part of google documents that is the google forms we can also make use of some survey tools associated with blogs wikis, imtools and some micro blogging and sms such as twitter, texting and sms if the activity is about discussion the digital alternative to this is using asynchronous and synchronous tools the instant messaging chat rooms forums, threaded discussions and wikis the tools that we could use would include electronic mail we can have online solutions hotmail, gmail we can have hosted solutions such as microsoft exchange for wiki we can make use of first class Moodle, main, blackboard we can have wiki spaces we can have wet paint wikis for threaded discussion we can have Moodle we can have blogs as well we can have social networking tools we can have micro blogging and sms audio and video conferencing and collaborative writing tools if the activity is about graphical organizer the digital alternative to this is brainstorming mind mapping software we can make use of mind mapping such as babolas, gliffy, cmap tools we have whiteboard inspiration, kidspiration we have free mind we have mind manager, microsoft we have ideas we have compedium we can also make use of ibrainstorm but for collaborative writing we can make use of google documents soho documents or protagonize if the activity is about time management such as using personal project group or organization that involves time management activities for the students the digital alternative to this is using the calendaring tools project and task management software such as the outlook the first class the project management tools such as the gantt project the open project or we can make use of the task management tools such as the task coach or the ms outlook if the activity involves mathematics, maths and data processing that usually involves paper base and calculator the traditional way is simply make use of paper, calculator and pen the digital approach or alternative is making use of spreadsheets and calculators tools under this would include spreadsheet, star office, calc the star office, the math office the ms excel for the numbers we can make use of the acrobat.com we can make use of the note taker by soho we can make use of numbers by using your ipad we can make use of calculators the standard and the scientific calculators or we can have online resources using web map or the math board if the activity involves about board games the digital alternative to this is make use of the rpg and electronic games such as the game maker the pop fly rpg maker the sims online if the activity is about timelines or visually representing events the digital alternative to this is to have an online timeline tools we have the president we have the xtimeline.com we have the timeline.com timelost.com timeglider.com and dipity.com if the activity is about bibliography and developing bibliography the digital alternative to this is to make use of the online bibliography tools such as the online citation tools like the ezebib the landmarks project sign of citation machine you have the sataro you have the bib me you have the delicious as well educational technology is very important so as digital and non-digital tools so these are the tools that we use for communication if we want to develop collaborative skills to our students tools for inquiry if we want to develop the critical thinking skills to our students tools for construction if we want to develop the creative skills with to our students so we always go back to the question how do digital natives learn and how do we teachers teach there are different tools different media different languages and students learn differently outside and inside the classroom digital and non-digital technologies have changed the language the function the structure the vocabulary the context the standards and outcomes of education there are so many tools so many different ways so many strategies so many principles but all of this depends on the readiness of your students to use technology the readiness of you teachers to use technology inside the classroom and outside the classroom the readiness of your infrastructure in your schools and the place where your students will access technology first the last part is the support of your administration it's about time that you revisit your own tool box teachers and try to find out what you have in there it's about time that you fill up your tool box