Technology can be a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent our approaches to learning and collaboration, shrink long-standing equity and accessibility gaps, and adapt learning experiences to meet the needs of all learners.
* Roles and Practices of Educators in Technology-Supported Learning Technology can empower educators to become co-learners with their students by building new experiences for deeper exploration of content.
This enhanced learning experience embodies John Dewey’s notion of creating “more mature learners.”8 Side-by-side, students and teachers can become engineers of collaboration, designers of learning experiences, leaders, guides, and
catalysts of change.9,10 Following are some descriptions of these educator roles and examples of how technology can play an integral part.
catalysts of change.9,10 Following are some descriptions of these educator roles and examples of how technology can play an integral part.
*Educators can design highly engaging and relevant learning experiences through technology.
Educators have nearly limitless opportunities to select and apply technology in ways that connect with the interests of their students and achieve their learning goals. For example, a classroom teacher beginning a new unit on fractions might choose to have his students play a learning game such as Conceptua Math, Factor Samurai, Wuzzit Trouble, or Sushi Monster as a way to introduce the concept. Later, the teacher might direct students to practice the concept by using manipulatives so they can start to develop some grounded ideas about equivalence.
*Connected Educators: Exemplars Technology can transform learning when used by teachers who know how to create engaging and effective learning experiences for their students.
In 2014, a group of educators collaborated on a report entitled, Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom. Not a how-to guide or a set of discrete tools, it draws together narratives from a group of educators within the National Writing Project who are working to implement and refine practices around technology-enabled learning. The goal was to rethink, iterate on, and assess how education can be made more relevant to today’s youth.
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