After reading Chapter 3 in our textbook Transforming Learning with New Technologies, I would like to refer to two approaches: teacher-centered, and student-centered. These two concepts are not necessarily technological, but they serves as a guide when it comes to inspiring our students to technology use with learning purposes. Teacher-centered approach , also known as transmission teaching, states that the energy and orientation of the class comes from the teacher to the students. Student-centered approach or learner-centered, instead, gives the students an active roll; learning is based on their planning, participation, and conduction over all. In both cases, technology such as computer-learning games or presentation softwares, must follow appropriate guidelines.
Another concept worth mentioning from this chapter is feedback, defined as communication between the learner and the instructor. Thanks to technology, feedback happens right away most of the time. This promotes critical thinking and problem solving skills, both leading to self-correcting and efficiency.
I think technology use is great help for learning, whether the active roll is being played by the educator, or the students. I also think that feedback not only helps the students to acknowledge their mistakes; it helps teachers to identify students strengths and weaknesses, and how effective or not is the educational method they are using.
References:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Great ToonDoo! :) You do need to give yourself credit in the Resource section - please see my sample blog for an example using BitStrips - as you will all future web 2.0 digital tool creations. I agree that feedback is a critical trait for effective learning - it shapes so much of how we learn. And technology can really do that - at least in a quick and impersonal way - pretty quickly. You do need to find three distinct concepts to explore for the future. The teacher-centered versus student-centered approaches were presented more as one concept looked at two different ways.
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