Role of technology in education. 21st century learning

1. The Role of Technology in Education

2. “Technology makes the world a
better place.”

3. Traditional Roles of Technology

4. A delivery vehicles for instructional
lessons.
• The learner learns from the technology

5. Technology serves as a TEACHER.

6. • In other words, the learner learns the
CONTENT presented by the TECHNOLOGY
in the same way that the learner learns
knowledge presented by the teacher.

7. The Role of Technology in
Constructivist Way

8. Technology as a partner in the learning
process.

9. Technology is a learning TOOL to learn
with, not from.
It makes the learner gather, think, analyze,
synthesize information and construct meaning
with what technology presents

11. Technology as tools to support
knowledge construction
–For representing
learners’ ideas,
understandings and
beliefs
–For producing organized,
multimedia knowledge
bases by learners

12. Technology as information vehicles for
exploring knowledge to support
learning-by-constructing:
–For accessing needed information
–For comparing perspectives, beliefs
and world views

13. Technology as context to support
learning-by-doing:
–For representing and stimulating
meaningful real-world problems, situations
and context
–For representing beliefs, perspectives,
arguments and stories of others
–For defining a safe, controllable problem
space for student thinking

14. Technology as a social medium to
support learning by conversing:

16. Technology as intellectual partner
(Jonassen 1996) to support learning-
by-reflecting:
–For helping others to articulate and
represent what they know
–For reflecting on what they have learned
and how they came to know it
–For supporting learners internal
negotiations and meaning making
–For constructing personal representations
of meaning for supporting mindful thinking