Technology can play a traditional role, i.e. as delivery
vehicles for instructional lessons or in a constructivist way as partners in
the learning process.
In a constructivist
way, technology helps the learner build more personal interpretations of life
in her/his world. Technology is a learning tool to learn with not
from. It makes the learner gather, think, analyze, synthesize
information and construct meaning with what technology presents
Roles of Educational Technology in Learning:
• Technology
as tools to support knowledge construction:
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For presenting learners’ ideas, understandings
and beliefs
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For producing organized, multimedia knowledge
bases for learners
·
Technology as information vehicles for
exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing:
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Accessing needed information
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For comparing perspectives, beliefs and world
views
• Technology
as context to support learning by doing
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for
representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems, situations and
contexts
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for representing beliefs, perspectives,
arguments, and stories of others
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For defining safe, controllable problem space
for student thinking
·
Technology as a social medium to support
learning by conversing
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For collaborating with others
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For discussing, arguing, and building consensus
among members of the community
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For supporting discourse among knowledge
building communities
• Technology
as intellectual partner
- For helping learners to articulate and
represent what they know
- For reflecting on what they have learned
and how they come to know it
- For supporting learners’ internal
negotiations and meaning making
- For constructing personal representations
of meaning for supporting mindful thinking
"Educational technology plays various roles. Form the traditional point of view, it serves as presenter of knowledge just like
teachers. It also serves as productivity tool. With the internet, technology
has facilitated communication among people. From the constructivist’s
perspective, educational technology is a meaningful learning tools by serving
as a learning partner."
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