Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning ED5001: Contemporary Issues in Education Mentor: Jamie Petrilla Assignment 6: Issues in Teaching and Learning.

Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning

ED5001: Contemporary Issues in Education Mentor: Jamie Petrilla

Assignment 6:   Issues in Teaching and Learning

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How does technology change the way we teach and

the way students learn?

Technology Generation Sat Nav Email Memory Sticks Powerpoint Internet Explorer /

Firefox Satellite TV DVDs Digital Cameras Blogs Mobile Phones

My space Bebo Facebook MSN Google Ipod Limewire eBay Xbox Wii PSP Skpe

Today’s 17 year olds

were born in 1993

1993The year

the Web was born

The use of digital technology has been completely normalised and fully

integrated by this generation …

Washington Times, Oct. 2, 2007

Because of this they have distinctive ways of thinking,

communicating, and learning.

Today’s learners are …Creative producers

Today’s learners are …Creative producersAll day, every day communicators

Today’s learners are …

Creative producersAll day, every day communicators

Information gatherers

Today’s learners are …

Creative producersAll day, every day communicatorsInformation gatherers

Social networkers

New Students

New Technologies

We have NO choice …

students expect technology to

be used in the classroom, in

learning … it is a

PREREQUISITE to learning

Live on the Web

Interact

Network

Aggregate resources

Build communities

Create

Share

Collaborate

Today’s learners …

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our

children of tomorrow.”John Dewey

We need to replicate in the classroom the world in

which students are living.

What students want …

• Focus

• Direction

• Clarity

• Multi-sensory stimulation

• Sense of challenge and accomplishment

Media-rich and media-centric content

Adaptable to all Learning Styles

• Multi-tasking

• Focused, just-in-time

• Social – local, and extended

• Collaborative

• Networked, connected

• Mobile, nomadic

Change in Student and Teacher Roles

The Positive Impact of eLearning Intel Education White Paper

http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/files/Positive_Impact_WP_FIN2.pdf

Flexible, Mobile, Versatile

Social technologies

Collaborative technologies

Transparent technologies

Networking technologies

Engage meaningfully with the world our students live in

Integrate the technologies that are relevant to the demands of their networked society

“Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.”

Heidi-Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant

SHIFT HAPPENS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZegg_iVFDM

(DiBlasi, 2009)

THANK YOU

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