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 serve as a teacher.
Constructivist role:
- Partners in the learning process.
- Technology is a learning tool to learn with, not from.
From a constructivist perspective, the following are the roles of technology in learning: (Jonassen, et al 1990)
- Learning to solve problems with technology.
Technology as tool 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 student thinking.
Technology as a social medium to support learning by conversing:
- For collaborating with others.
- For discussing, arguing, and building consensus among members of community.
- For supporting discourse among knowledge-building community.
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.
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