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Technology in education exist since Aristotle times... with time become the 'pencil and the notebook' and at beginning was kind of sin when someone take notes... So now is the same when you have a student in your class with an ipad.. but you can transform the way of understanding of your student using that device on your favor.
The new technologies of information and communication (TIC) are useful tools.. or your worst enemy, it just depend the way you apply on your classroom.
So, I don't think that Technology is changing Education, for the opposite, Technology is transforming Education.
Rapid development in technology is reshaping education phenomena along with other fields. Almost all the aspects of the process of education are being witness this change. There are three remarkable impacts of advanced technology on education:
1. Economical and time saving
2. Accuracy and precise
3. Fast paced
Technology is changing everything - how education is delivered and received. The means in which the tasks are performed. Accessibility to information and research. Its a whole new world.
Of late we have seen so much potential emerging from the world of technology as relates specifically to education. From the perspective of Why Science, an education technology company, not only the pace of these breakthroughs, but also the scope of many of them has been extremely encouraging and we suspect that given the recent announcement by Apple regarding their push towards the classroom this will be a big year it terms of the merging of technology and the classroom.
Below are a few recent articles that we thought were noteworthy not only based on their achievements but also because when you think about these stories in the context of how we have educated our students, ALL of these stories would have been impossible to write even five years ago!
1. Capitalizing student engagement with mobile devices
Students spend a lot of time outside of school using high tech forms of communication. Why not capture these skills to improve student learning? Technology Director Anthony A. Luscre of Mogadore Local Schools challenges educators to use students’ mobile devices to provide technology-rich, highly engaging, and fun learning experiences that reflect real-world skills.
2. iPad in classroom provide20 percent jump in math scores, study says
Students in an iPad tablet computer pilot program in a Riverside, Calif., middle school achieved math test scores that were20% higher than the scores of those using traditional textbooks. The yearlong program, sponsored by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, used the Fuse program, the first algebra curriculum designed exclusively for the iPad.
Flipped instruction can offer solutions for improving education at impoverished schools, says Greg Green, principal of a financially struggling high school in Michigan. At Green’s school, a flipped model has been in place for18 months and led to a rise in attendance and decreases in failure rates and discipline cases, he writes.
4. The promise of Education Apps
How are apps going to change the way we deliver educational content? The collection of iPhone and iPad educational applications aimed at young children is growing rapidly, now making up more than75% of all educational apps available on iTunes, according to a new study by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Sesame Workshop. In addition, almost60% of children’s apps target toddlers and preschoolers, while14% of apps were designed to be used in the classroom, the study found. The analysis presented in this study highlights industry best practices and future opportunities for developers, educators and researchers by closely examining the content of200+ children’s apps within the education apps category of Apple’s App Store.
With devices like iPads for example, students are no longer confined to a computer lab. As soon as an assignment is, available students can work on it inside their classroom, at home, while waiting on the bus, in between classes, etc. Mobile classroom technology can bridge the gap between classroom and home learning.
With all these mobile devices in the classroom, eBooks are becoming more popular. Which makes sense; they are cheaper, more up-to-date, quickly accessed, and more interactive.
With technology in the classroom, the traditional student and teacher roles have changed. The student has become a lot more active and engaged. Rather than just the teacher relaying information while the student absorbs and regurgitates, the teacher has become more of a facilitator than just a dispenser of information.
One of the characteristics of the modern classroom is collaboration and technology helps to empower it. With classroom technology, students can collaborate with other students and their teachers in and outside of the classroom quickly and easily.
Technology in education to make it faster and easier
