ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

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         An educational media center is a facility designed for the housing and utilization of all educational media within the school. It is a basic requirement for school to render quality service.It is not independent of the school. Rather, like any part of the human body, it is the unit in the school that cooperates with other unit of departments that help the school fulfill its mission and realize its vision by living up to the school's philosophy and aims.It serves a myriad roles and functions  and services  such as:

• Orientation-All teacher are given an orientation on the Educational Media Center.The students are also given an orientation on their first Media Instructional Program class.
• Selection of print and non-print materials-The librarians continually select and acquire print and non-print material that suits the needs, interest, and special abilities of the students and teachers.
• Organization of print and non-print materials- A technical librarian organizes all the purchased print and non-print materials for easy retrieval.
• Circulation of print and non-print materials-The Educational Media Center lends out various types of materials to students and teachers.
• Reference-The EMC attends to request such a bibliographic information from the card catalog,serch throug books, periodivcals, pamphlets, documents and non-print materialsd.
• Bibliographic Service-Threre are listings of materials and periodical articels to publicize the new materilas and periodical aricles in in the EMC.
• Media Instruction Prprogram-The MIP aims to teach students to be skillfull and discriminating uesrs of print and non-print media.
• Class Supervised Resarch-IT is a schedule program of activity particularly in Science and Sicial Studies.
• Grade level newspaper- Each grade level is given a subsripytion to anewspaper of their choice..
• Photocopying Services- A self- service photocopying machine is available foe the faculty to Zerox material needed.
• Video and Sound Production-Simple production for class instruction, program and school wide presentations are put together in the audio-Visual area.
• Multi-media Services- Different non-print  media- materials are acquired.

Educational Media Center functions as a visual instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the school's educational process. It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.It involve in the teaching and learning process.It is a source center .It is a learning laboratory.It is a teaching agency. It is a service agency.It is a coordinating agency.It is a center of recreational, viewing, and listening and it is a stepping stone to other community resource centers.

ASSESSMENT IN A CONSRTUCTIVIST,TECHNOLOGY- SUPPORTED LEARNING

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           I have learned that being a student, I should go beyond memorizing for test and should not study only for score and a passing grade.The teacher should conduct assessment practice  that will be congruent with the constructivist's thinking,which is a higher level form that will require the display of the basic skills of writing and speaking skills,computing and the more complex skills of applying concepts learned, analyzing, integrating and creating, critiquing and evaluating and the social skills of working with others. Such higher form of assessment will call for altercate form of assessment.

          Authentic assessment is the most appropriate for the constructivist classroom.It measures collective abilities,written and oral expression skills,analytical skills,manipulative skills,integration, creativity, and ability to work collaboratively.With the kind of assessment, students perform real world tasks. It is an assessment of the process or a product.The performance is the reliable measure of skills learned and the product is the proof of the acquisition of skills. In doing authentic assessment, the teacher should make use of of the scoring rubric in order to objectively observe and evaluate student's performance.With scoring rubric, the standards are clearly set at the beginning the teacher and the students. With rubric,the student can assess her or his progress.In this case the much fear foe the test gets dispelled.Assessment is the natural and normal part of the learning process. There are no more secrets on how students will be tested,what kind of question will be asked.The students themselves know how their progress gets assessed.

           Aside from authentic assessment, there is also the need of performance-based assessment or product assessment.It is a direct assessment.With this assessment, the teacher measures the student's computer skills directly in an authentic or real-life setting.

          In technology-supported classroom, the students learn from and with technology. Technology is seen as source of information that the students learn from in the same way that the are a source of information. The students master facts and concepts from technology and with the aid of technology.