Use of Technology
Definition
Facilitate learning and improve performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
Why?
- The use of technology can facilitate learning and teaching.
- Technology can promote deep understanding with simulations.
How to?
Do
- Consider technology from a learner-centered perspective.
- Access to technology
- Inclusion, empowering
- Be aware of the cultural assumptions/bias inherited in a technology
- Technology can be used to provide timely and targeted feedback
- Technology can be used to monitor and assess students' progress.
- Prepare students who are not familiar with new technology with additional instruction.
- Consider technology use with respect to the students culture.
- Use technology as a means not as a goal.
Do NOT
- Ignore the cultural assumptions in technologies.
- Assume all students are familiar with technologies.