the role of educational technology in learning
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THE ROLES OF EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING
‘’Technology makes the world a new place.’’
Traditional role of Technology
Delivery vehicles for instructional lessons
TRADITIONAL WAY:
Technology serves as a teacher.
CONSTRUCTIVIST ROLE:
Partners in the learning process.
CONSTRUCTIVIST WAY:
Technology is a learning tool to learn WITH, not FROM.
From a constructivist perspective, the following are role of technology in learning: (Jonassen, et al 1990)
From a constructivist perspective, the following are role of technology in learning: (Jonassen, et al 1990)
Technology as tools to support knowledge construction:
• For representing learners ideas, understandings and beliefs.
• For producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases by learners.
Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing:
• For accessing needed information• For comparing perspectives, beliefs and world
views.
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 students thinking.
Technology as a social medium to support learning by conversing:
• For collaborating with others• For discussing, arguing, and building
consensus among members of a community• For supporting discourse among knowledge-
building communities.
Technology as intellectual partner(Jonnassen1996)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 mindfull thinking
PREPARED BY:MARIA MABEL P. ESPENILLABEED-PSED 2A