Digital Technologies
In the past 20+ years, digital educational technology has been the main driver in terms of facilitating a shift in approach and attitudes toward teaching and learning. Even for people who don’t have any particular interest in edtech, it is unavoidable. Technology is ubiquitous, and to ignore the affordances leaves the educator exposed to poor outcomes for their students.
If we want learners who can:
- Connect
- Communicate
- Collaborate
- Create
- Co-construct/co-create new knowledge
- Develop digital fluency
And we want teachers who can:
- Connect learners
- Facilitate communication
- Encourage interaction that leads to collaboration
- Provide for learner choice when creating and co-creating
- Encourage an environment of experimentation leading to skill building and digital fluency
And we want learning ecosystems that:
- Are readily accessible and intuitive to use
- Accept multi-modal responses and contributions: text, audio, video
- Provide for different forms of collaboration
- Encourage student autonomy and risk taking
Then we can look to the affordances of contemporary ed tech tools to support the development of these attributes in the learner, teacher and learning environment.
