There are many ways in which technology has changed the way in which we teach and learn. The classroom in 2016 has embraced digital technologies to aid teaching and learning and is completely different to the classroom when I was a child. According to Olshanetsky, D.(2013)"Many people remember the wheeling in of a small television, and a VHS/DVD being played, but in 2016 it’s simpler for the teacher to have a MacBook attached to an ActivBoard to play a Channel 4 OD/BBC iPlayer,Hulu or YouTube video."
I remember burying my head in a book as a child totally engrossed and even loving the musky smell of a hardback book! Nowadays youngsters can simply log on to a laptop, kindle or tablet or access an e book, how times have changed.
Now, online resources allow us to access information wherever we are ,in the classroom, on the go,or at home as a means to support our learning.
Olshanetsky (2013) goes on to inform us that "Groups like BrainPOP specialize in creating multimedia content for all ages and types of students, from flash games, to interactive quizzes." These apps can be very useful in assessing a students learning.
Students can now cross international language barriers and access articles from foreign newspapers with full page translators, all this proving that education is embracing new technologies, giving the student a much wider based platform of information to access.
There are no doubts that information technology can have its downside, but there is little evidence to suggest that computers are damaging our brains.Infact could computers make us more intelligent?
According to Robson, D.(2014) "The potential for technology to enhance the mind was explored by, Google’s vice-president of research, Alfred Spector, at the 'World changing ideas summit' in New York on 21 October. He outlined the ways that even simple apps could improve the way we think and learn." Spector looks at research that suggests that average students can dramatically improve their learning if they have a personal tutor who can adapt their teaching methods to the student’s style of thinking and learning. So if technology was employed to become custom tutors, then it may be possible to dramatically improve educational attainment. Spector goes on to say that technology could fundamentally change our society – perhaps even abolishing the need for schools. To me this is a scary thought as schools are as important for social interactions as they are for learning.
According to Robson, D.(2014) "The potential for technology to enhance the mind was explored by, Google’s vice-president of research, Alfred Spector, at the 'World changing ideas summit' in New York on 21 October. He outlined the ways that even simple apps could improve the way we think and learn." Spector looks at research that suggests that average students can dramatically improve their learning if they have a personal tutor who can adapt their teaching methods to the student’s style of thinking and learning. So if technology was employed to become custom tutors, then it may be possible to dramatically improve educational attainment. Spector goes on to say that technology could fundamentally change our society – perhaps even abolishing the need for schools. To me this is a scary thought as schools are as important for social interactions as they are for learning.
Olshanetsky, D (2013)
https://econsultancy.com/blog/63456-the-digital-classroom-how-tech-has-changed-the-way-we-learn/
Robson, D. (2014) World changing ideas.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141022-are-we-getting-smarter
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