Thursday, November 12, 2009

Given the view of schooling in the readings for this week, which technologies do you think are most likely to be taken up in schools? Why? Which techn

Technologies most likely to be taken up by schools will be technologies that schools can afford and are reliable.
The technologies that push my thinking of teaching and learning are technologies that can teach subjects that when presented in traditional ways are not effectively taught to some students. An obvious model is the ability to model in 3-d concepts that are difficult to visualize in 2-d. There is software that can manipulate on a level that concrete models cannot and this can really illustrate concepts that otherwise might never make sense for certain students.
An example that immediately comes to mind is Sketchpad and the dynamaps that show dynamically the relationship between independent and dependent variables in a function. The ability of software to illustrate in such a unique way intrigues me. While math and science seem great subjects in which to apply such such technology I would like to think that social sciences could benefit from software applications that can illustrate as well.
I think inexpensive reliable technology that can help illustrate difficult concepts are here and cost will continue to go down while choices of software will increase and grow more sophisticated.

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