The videos show the importance of technology in exploring preconceived ideas and background knowledge. They point out that technology can enhance inquiry, critical, and creative thinking skills. Students gain problem-solving skills while exploring different theories and strategies with technology. This exploration helps to reinforce their understanding and it facilitates their decision-making abilities.<\/p>\n
In general, technology-based activities or projects are multi-disciplinary and often require that students synthesize their knowledge and understanding. Because it is rare to see teachers who are experts in the use of technology in a multi-disciplinary way, students do not always receive support with this need to synthesize. It is also unusual to see teachers who have a deep understanding of how to effectively use technology within their own discipline or subject area.<\/p>\n
We need teachers with deep disciplinary and technology understandings to guide and extend students\u2019 intellectual and practical forays, helping them to improve their inquiry, creative and critical thinking skills through engagement in authentic tasks with clear, precise, and measurable learning outcomes.\u00a0 We need teachers who can make the best use of technology in the classroom by developing their awareness of range of digital technologies and by considering carefully both how and why technology can be used to support students\u2019 learning. Effective selection of software and devices is only part of the story. Identifying learning outcomes and deciding how technology may help is fundamental in deciding its effective deployment.<\/p>\n
The videos also show that technology has not always been reliable. Things do not always work as predicted (e.g. a program will not run on a computer because an installed application is preventing to do so). Therefore, a learning experience could be transformed in a troubleshooting session. Although troubleshooting can be time consuming, both teachers and students can learn technical tricks that can be used in the future.<\/p>\n
It is important to be flexible when using technology and explore other technology solutions. Being open to use different technology helps to develop the necessary awareness of the range of technology that can be useful for a particular learning experience.<\/p>\n
Time has also been presented as a scarce factor in teaching. Indeed, time is a rare commodity in schools, and any new tip or initiative that squanders it and does not add real value to a teacher\u2019s working day will inevitably fail. That is because the first priority for all teachers is to teach and to improve the prospects of the students they teach. We usually don\u2019t have enough time to explore all aspects of the learning skills that we are teaching. However, teaching strategies such as flipped classroom and blended learning contribute to maximising instruction time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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