Education and Technology

Technology:
 Humans apply their knowledge designing machines.
 It has to do with software and hardware.

Advantages:
Social network.
Faster communication.
Connection with the world.
Disadvantages
People get lazy.


To teach technology:
 Get training to know how to use technology to teach others.
Technology in the learning process:
 It offers a world of options to solve problems, investigate, innovate, and create and so on.

Educational Technology:
 It is the ethical and practice use of technology and its resources to facilitate, innovate, and improve the learning process.

Benefits:
You can access to technology all around the world.
It motivates students.
It has a lot of educative tools, programs, and learning online.
It makes easier the process of learning.


Elements of the Rationale for Teaching with Technology
 Motivation: By motivating students we can gain student attention.

 Unique instructional capabilities: Technology offers many tools that allow student to discovere how to solve a problem, or make their learning process easier.
 Support for new instructional approaches: Student can exchange their knowledge and skills with other regarding technology.

 Increase teaching productivity: Help students with the production of their tasks by providing materias, knowledge, tools quickly.

 Require skills for the information age: Information literacy, technology literacy, visual literacy.
 Technology makes the learning process more relevant.

7 Principles

 Encourage contact between the students and the Faculty:

The facilitator should give students tools to make their learning easier.

 Develops the reciprocity and cooperation between students:

Encourage a cooperative environment between students.

 Encourages active learning:

Students learn by doing, discovering and applying their knowledge in different tasks.

 Gives prompt feedback:

Feedback has to be given immediately in order to correct mistakes, and motivate the student to finish what he started in order to not left anything behind.

 Emphasizes time on tasks:

Set up deadline in the assignments.

 Communicates high expectations:

Tell students that you are expecting the best in their projects, and assign challenging projects.

 Respects diverse talents and ways of learning:

Allow student to create by respecting the different ways of learning.

One example of using technology in education is: By assigning students to create a digital portfolio, in which they can collect information, and post digital pictures, arts, and videos. Students can use different programs (flash, Photoshop, ect) to give effects, and their own style to the portfolio.

Creating Digital Portfolios with Students: ePortfolios Use Technology to Collect, Sort Assignments and Reflect http://www.suite101.com/content/creating-digital-portfolios-with-students-a148686#ixzz113CzP2JY