Technology

Technology

1. TPACK

   • Technologies are used in ways that enhance student learning
   • Technology/Pedagogy/ content

2. Teach beliefs

   • Enrich
   • Supplement to reinforce a concept
   • Transform
   • What pedagogy - ICT?
     • Teacher directed
       • Direct instruction
       • Tells students or asks students to look up facts
       • Google and make a poster
     • Student centred
       • Students work in pairs to investigate a topic they are interested in
       • Create a pictorial representation
   • How we think students learn directs our use of technology and pedagogy
     • Behaviourist
       • Direct instruction
       • Mathletics
       • Knowledge exists external to the student
     • Constructivist
       • Children construct their own knowledge
       • Big questions, investigation, projects
       • Software that mediates learning - content free

3. ICT tools

   • Content free
     • Environments that are blank
       • Students have to do something with the space
     • Explaineverthing showme app
   • Content-specific
     • Computer programs/games
       • Present information incrementally
     • Correct answers rewarded
     • Incorrect answers are remediated
     • They don't teach children
     • Reading eggs, mathletics

4. ICT In middle years classrooms

   • Supplementing
     • Teacher has control
   • Enriching
     • Teacher and students collaborate together
   • Leveraging
     • Students have total control over representation of their knowledge overtime