Technological Learning — The imagination is the limit
We live in a digital age where technology seems to rule everything… without technology where would we be? As one Japanese student stated in Prensky’s article “When you lose your mobile, you lose part of your brain”… When you discover that someone doesn’t have an email address, you are shocked… when each home doesnt have a computer you are shocked…
As Kearney discusses it’s interesting to delve into the possibilities technology brings to education. Computer use in the classroom has slowly becoming more common place…. The Interactive White Board is quickly being installed into classrooms around the world and teachers are being encouraged to use the technology in their teaching methods… and now the new learning tool is the mobile phone – almost every child has a mobile phone and this small computer might become the next learning tool…
In our mind map of mobile phone technology we explored some different capabilities and uses of mobile phones. This is only the intermediate stages of tehcnology learning in the classroom… Jim Nuttle’s graphic description of emerging technologies is amazing!
However, as stated by Maree tools must be used properly in order to give value to students… technology, as Blanton says, when emphasised over and above pedagocial practices, is simply an expensive tool.
Diagram from http://horizon.nmc.org/wdata/images/f/f2/2008-nuttle-chart.jpg
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 am
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