Monday, June 16, 2008

How I view technology in education

It's becoming ubiquitous. We need to view and use technology as we would a book or a blackboard or a desk.
Technology gives us the tools to create experiences for our students that they would otherwise have missed. They can go to places in the world without ever leaving the classroom.
Another benefit is that technology allows for individualized instruction created to meet specific needs for each student. Technology gives an enormous variety of activities on the same subject but at varying degrees of difficulty and with varying degrees of knowledge needed.
A major strength of embedding technology in the learning process is that it teaches students how to become independent life-long learners. Technology allows students the resources to discover information on their own. Including it in the education process gives them a job skill that might not be there otherwise.