The Challenges and Values afforded for Learners and Teachers using Online Educational Technologies

(Australian Association for Research in Education, 2020)

There are positives and negatives with everything that is critically analysed, and digital technology in the classroom is no different. As a teacher I know there are many challenges implementing digital technology, but I also understand that the value it adds to learners can be huge. For some teachers, implementing technology often comes with added pressure to become digital experts as curriculums move towards the need to develop the skills students will need into the future.

We cannot challenge technology to serve the needs of education until we know what we want from it. We have to articulate what it means to teach well, what the principles of designing good teaching are, and how these will enable learners to learn.

(Laurillard, 2012, p. 4)

This video discusses why it’s important to prepare our young people for a swiftly changing world, and the different ways schools and kura in NZ are approaching digital technologies learning.

For Teachers:

For Students:

References:

Beetham, H., & Sharpe, R. (2019). Rethinking pedagogy for a digital age: Principles and Practices of Design. Routledge.

Digital Technology [Online image]. (2020). Australian Association for Research in Education. https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=5259

Education Gazette NZ. (2020, February 3). Why is the Digital Technology curriculum important? [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8WK5XVUhk

Laurillard, D. (2012). Teaching as a design science: Building pedagogical patterns for learning and technology. Routledge

Marx, M. (2015). Teaching with Digital Technologies Infographic [Online image]. iLite’s blog. https://ilite.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/teaching-with-digital-technologies-infographic/