For me, good technology use involves smooth integration of technology in the chosen didactical design. Lead by a thorough pedagogical design, digital technology should thus be chosen with care. There is no inherent value in technology, but the value of any technology lays in enhancing teaching.
Technology should help students in their learning process – it could, for example, help to identify misconceptions and provide challenges and quests. Good technology use should support individual, personalized, student-centred teaching – for example, by allowing different learning paces and learning depth.
Technology should also support student activation, self-regulation and increase motivation and curiosity – for example, by using gamification. It should also allow learning outside the classroom (e.g. at home).
Technology should also support collaborative and social learning.
And technology should be easy to use and also allow digitally disadvantaged students to participants.
I don’t think the implementation of this vision is too far away … with a good didactical design in mind, the teacher can choose from a broad range of available technology today. I guess will have a look at some of these technologies in this course.