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What is Technology?
1. Technology is Objects:
Tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances - the
physical devices of technical performance
2. Technology is Knowledge:
The know-how behind technological innovation
3. Technology is Activities:
What people do - their skills, methods, procedures, routines
4. Technology is a Process:
Begins with a need and ends with a solution
5. Technology is a Sociotechnical System:
The manufacture and use of objects involving people and
other objects in combination
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Purpose of Technology in
Education
Plan should clearly identify learning goals to
be achieved through technology
Technology should support instructional
learning goals -- integrated into instruction in
meaningful ways
Technology should be used for challenging,
long-term projects that promote students'
higher-order thinking skills
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Technology Problem Solving
How can administrators get the most out of
education technology?
How can faculty get the most out of education
technology?
How can students get the most out of
education technology?
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How can we make things better?
Make Technology:
Pervasive
Natural to use
Wireless
Effortless
Easy to use a little or a
lot
Provide standard
desktop for instructors
Make it easy to combine
methodologies
Blackboard,
transparencies, video..
Provide technical staff
“Security blanket”
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Obtaining, Organizing, and Using New
Technology
Classrooms, labs
Wireless networks
Technology vendors
Partnerships with the private sector
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Current & Future Technology
Current Technology
College Website
(“INTRANET”)
Description
Syllabus
Reading Material
In-class presentation
material
Assignments
Video
Grades
FAQ’s
Future Technology
Digitized lecture video
Video Conferencing for
“office hours”
Beyond imagination
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Trends in Distance Education
More people interested
in:
Supplementing
education
Getting degree
Non-credit education
Industry and Military
interested in cost-
effective ways to train
Becoming more
expensive to provide
traditional classrooms
and labs
Technology available in
homes, libraries,
community centers
becoming very
sophisticated
Trends would all seem to converge with
Distance Education – people taking
classes without going to class
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Overcoming Problems
Problems:
Delivering information
Controlling progress
through class
Conducting labs
Helping students with
projects & papers
Testing
Making it possible thru:
Internet
Web
DSL/Cable access
Desktops, laptops,
PDA’s
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Value added by Instructor
Providing websites, slides, demos,
animations is not enough
Most critical component - Instructor
No technology will replace human interaction
Instructors can “read” students in classroom
Instructors can provide further explanation
Instructors can guide discussion in a different
direction
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Two sides of Coins
As, technology has its own “pro’s” and “cons”.
Technology may not always be appropriate in
every educational setting.
So, one should only think while taking use of
the word “TECHNOLOGY”
“What limits should be placed on
its use?”