EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON CRIMINOLOGY STUDENTS’ ENTHUSIASM FOR LEARNING
Introduction
Enthusiasm for learning criminology subjects can be defined as the students’ eagerness to participate in practical
exercises in all major subjects in criminology in the classroom, as well as in the outdoor activities. The
researchers’ motivation for using technology in teaching criminology subjects has two objectives. First, for the
criminology students to be interested in integrating technology into their studies. Secondly, for the criminology
students to explore other resources in learning not only spoon feeding teaching.
Today, students have grown up in a technological world with television, electronic devices and gadgets like cellular
phones and tablets, video games, and more. They are accustomed for receiving and processing information
through multi-sensory sources. The researchers wanted to bring technology inside the classroom and incorporate it into classroom discussions.
Learning is an extremely complex human process. For several years of teaching, the researchers have used many
strategies to enhance student s’ learning and to teach new concepts. Yet, the researchers are not convinced that they
thoroughly understand how criminology students learn. The researchers believe that criminology students learn through
experiences . Criminology students build on past experiences and previous knowledge to process new concepts. As
students redefine old understandings of concepts and integrate new experiences into their old concepts, they
mature in their knowledge and understanding.
In their early experiences of the world, criminology students developed ideas which enable them to make sense
of the things that happened around them. They brought these informal ideas inside the classroom, based from the
aim of criminal justice education which is to give more explanatory power so that their ideas can become useful concepts.
As criminology instructors, the researchers cannot assume that they are the giver of knowledge. The
researchers are only confident in knowing that they are the facilitator of understanding, the presenter of an opportunity
to explore, discover, and compile knowledge. Criminology students’ willingness to learn and their enthusiasm for
discovering knowledge and developing understanding will dictate the level of their learning.
Students need to be actively involved in their education. Interested and enthusiastic students are more willing
learners, and the researchers believe that willing learners become active participants in their own instruction.
As students become more actively involved in their learning, they develop interest and enthusiasm for the content and/or
the process that is conduit for acquiring new knowledge.
Through this study, the researchers hope to find that multimedia technology would be the conduit that criminology
students need in order to acquire new knowledge, develop new concepts, and express strong understanding. Through
the integration of multimedia computer software the researchers desire to tap the enthusiasm of criminology
students towards learning criminology subjects and make them active participants on instructors’ instruction.
Conclusion
- Criminology instructors are using technology in teaching their criminology students.
- Learning was achieved by the students when the criminology students incorporated technology in discussing the topic.
- The use of technology is beneficial to students’ learning outcome of the learners.
Researchers
- Mharzki A. Escobido
- April C. Casasis
- Mary Grace S. Taburnal