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THE ROLES OF THE ROLES OF EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY INTECHNOLOGY INLEARNINGLEARNING

“ Technology

makes the world

a new place ”

Technology can play a traditional role,

i.e. as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons or in a constructivist way as partners in the learning process.

Technology is a learning tool to learn with not from. It makes the learner gather, think, analyze, synthesize information and construct meaning with what technology presents

Technology serves as a medium in representing what the learner knows and what he/ she is learning.

Which greater role did technology plays in your learning experience :

TECHNOLOGY-AS-TEACHER Or

TECHNOLOGY-AS-PARTNER

•Technology as tools to support knowledge construction:

•Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing:

• For accessing needed information.

• For comparing perspectives , beliefs and world views.

•Technology as context to support learning by doing

•For representing beliefs , perspectives , arguments , and stories of others.

•For defining a safe , controllable problem space for student thinking.

•For representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems , situations and context.

•Technology as a social medium to support learning by conversing

•For collaborating with others.

•For discussing , arguing, and building consensus among members of a community.

•For supporting discourse among knowledge-building communities.

•Technology as intellectual partner

•For helping learners to articulate and represent what they knows•For reflecting on what they have learned and how they came to know it•For supporting learners internal negotiations and meaning makings•For constructing personal representations of meaning •For supporting mindful thinking

Whether used from the traditional or constructivist point of view, when used effectively, research indicates that technology not only “increases students’ learning, understanding, and achievement but also augments, motivation to learn, encourages collaborative learning and supports the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills” (Shacter and Fagnano, 1999)

Proper implementation of technology in the classroom gives students more “control of their own learning and … tends to move classrooms from teacher-dominated environments to ones that are more learner-centered

So therefore, technology is really a big help and plays

an important role in learning.