Since I am primarily an elementary school teacher, Bates and Poole’s Sections Framework seemed to resonate a little more with me than Chickering and Gamson’s framework. I am all too familiar with the problems associated with the costs of technology. For example, it can be quite the problem if you are trying to implement a movie-making unit and there is a lack of equipment for the unit to run smoothly. In addition, the reliability and ease of using video equipment pose an equally sticky situation. Furthermore, I think where I have run into problems in the past is in regards to the appropriateness of technologies for a particular group of students. Sometimes I have become way too ambitious with projects and as a result they didn’t go exactly as planned and didn’t enhance students’ learning in a way that I thought the technology would.
Categories