Doug Johnson has an excellent piece of common sense advice posted on his website:
The Drill Bit Rule: You don’t buy a drill bit because you want a drill bit; you buy it because you want a hole. You don’t buy technology because you want technology; you buy it because you want a more effective school.
I would add to that, in noting that schools should purchase technology so it can be used to help students as well as teachers develop digital literacy skills which are the keys to both their present and future successes as learners and netizens.
Often when people use the terms “technology” and “effective” in the same sentence, they are talking about (or people perceive them to be talking about, which is really the same thing) the more efficient TRANSMISSION of content from the sources (teacher and textbooks) into the minds of learners.
That is 19th century educational pedagogy. Today our learners deserve and need better. Unfortunately in many places, they aren’t getting it. This is incidentally the topic of my presentation tomorrow at the Lubbock “Ultimate Education Summit!”
On this day..
- Janet Barresi's ODLA 2011 Keynote - 2011
- How to Make Your High School Students Fail Online Courses - 2011
- Join in 12 Days of Playing with Media - 2011
- Rapid Prototyping, Digital Fabrication, STEM, NSF and Karen Cator - 2010
- 1000s of Universities now using Podcast Generator - 2010
- A sad (but true) video commentary on higher education publishing - 2010
- Broad, Sweeping Company Facebook policy challenged - 2010
- Language over Native American forced re-location matters - 2010
- Empowered to Constructively Create on MediaWiki - 2010
- Five K12Online09 Presentation Teaser Trailers (so far) - 2009
