Thursday, June 10, 2010
Do we need all this new technology?
"The distance-learning classrooms being built at many colleges and universities also reinforce a single pedagogy. The distance-learning design meets the need to capture the sights and sounds of the classroom with camera and microphone by constraining the location and movement of classroom participants and furniture. The result:Technology limits the form of pedagogy to a very traditional delivery of information, conveyed from an authority- invested instructor positioned at the front of the room to rows off passively absorbent students." Hank Bromely How To Tell If You Really Need The Latest Technology Technology is the same thing because students are just as distant when watching the teacher teach as sitting in front of the computer. So why bother to use the technology?
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Although I do not feel that technology should be used in the classroom solely all of the time, I do think that the use of technology, when proper, can greatly benefit the students. In our text book Collins and Halverson (2009) wrote, " Another potential gain stems from the capability of computers to customize education to the particular needs and abilities of individual learners" (109). Now students can take control of what they learn, they can go as fast or slow, learn about different things that interest them, and do all of this without stressing about what the other students around them are doing or thinking. Our students can benefit from the proper use of technology in collaboration with teachers alike.
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