Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1006] Using the new technologies effectively
From: Des Wilsmore (des_wils@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 2001 - 05:16:47 MET
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:16:47 -0800 (PST) From: Des Wilsmore <des_wils@yahoo.com> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1006] Using the new technologies effectively
Having just read Alfred Bork and Brent Muirhead's
comments in the last digest I concur with their views
to a large extent. New technologies will expand the
range of options that teachers/educators have but the
important queastion is, 'how they are being used?'
Over the past three years I visited over twenty five
schools in Australia and three university campuses
examining the use of IT as a learning tool. My early
conclusions suggest that where they were being used
effectively (and appeared to have a great deal of
motivational impact), the lessons and uses focussed on
interactive use of the technology, not just students
sitting in front of computers. The uses of the
technologies were also often tied in and not separate
from the learning outcomes that the teachers/educators
were trying to achieve.
Much has been written and a deal of research done in
the above areas, unfortunately education in many areas
does not appear to be keeping up with the advances in
technology. As my friend John Patterson from
Wollongong University (Australia)explained to me. Many
schools and universities had merely changed a
horizontal page to a vertical one.
Des Wilsmore
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Charles Sturt University
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