Benefits of Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning
Discuss about the Research Study From Implementing Flipped Classroom.
The teacher generally seems to have a positive view of the advantage and various effects of digital learning (Johnstone Wilder, Pimm & Westwell, 2016). Most teachers have agreed to the fact that digital technologies have been associated with creating a platform which is capable of bringing a lot of benefits to numerous learners in an easy way. Despite this, the fact should be taken into consideration and it would be associated with providing equity of access, solutions for the issues related to safety. Along with this, it would have an impact on the working hours of teachers as well. Apart from this, it is notable that few teachers have agreed on the fact that learning with the usage of digital technology is a time-consuming process. With the implementation of internet technology, some teachers and principals have analyzed the fact that hardware and software are considered to be much challenging for their needs. And many times it has been identified that internet is needed by a major number of students (Voogt et al., 2017). The cost which is mainly involved in keeping these technologies updated is considered to be of major concern for more than half of principles. Apart from this, some teachers and principals have put the question that it can block the access to a large number of people who cannot afford to have these technologies. The ministry of education mainly identifies the fact that various supporting schools are to making use of new kind of technologies for different programs.
In the coming pages of the essay, an idea has been provided regarding effective practice in digital technology which can be easily used for teaching and learning in various schools. After that, a proper reason has been provided that is technology is used for digitizing teacher worksheet rather than problem-solving or deep learning. At the end of the report, a list of innovative and learning strategies has been provided which can be easily used for mastering digital age skills.
The best way to understand the evolving use of technology in various schools is to properly investigate the fact that how various students can effectively make use of digital technologies for learning, creating and sharing of their work (Collins & Halverson, 2018). Apart from this, it can be effectively be used for establishing communication, connecting and collaborating with people who are beyond their schools. Making use of digital technologies for establishing communication or collaborating is considered to be beneficial for students as well as teachers. Various teachers around the globe have stated the fact that student can easily make use of digital technologies for collaborating with others who are inside the schools on shared learning projects. Apart from that, a majority of students make use of digital technologies for establishing communication with people who are beyond the school. On the contrary, only a small portion of students make use of digital technology for collaborating with others who are beyond the schools which are inclusive of expert, other teachers or even community group. Out of a large number of things which are common that teachers have provided the fact the things which are liked by the student which is used in digital technology are
- Collaborating with a large number of people who can easily share on learning projects.
- Establishing communication with a large number of people beyond the school.
- It also aims in sharing of evidence for their learning progress along with achievement in both online communities and e-portfolios.
- It also aims in collaborating with other people who are inside the school on sharing of learning projects.
Challenges and Concerns with Digital Technology Adoption
Some teachers have also identified a certain number of practices which they do not want to include in their programs. Some of the common things are
- Sharing of digital evidence of various learning progress and along with achievement in public and online communities and online based portfolios
- Codes and programming
- Playing games and simulation.
From the various data it can be easily suggested that the use of technology for various kinds of activities like skill practice and internet research has increased, a lot in the last few years. The use of technology for the creation of digital printouts of documents or slideshow presentation have varied a lot in last few years with no kind of explanation (Crandall, & Bailey, 2018). There has been a general increase in the production of multimedia with the collaboration of schools along with these there are some things which are considered to be rather often. Other kinds of technology like communication and collaboration beyond the school which does not take place in most of the primary and intermediate classroom.
Apart from the benefits, various people around the globe worry about the fact that digital technologies might be considered to be bad for young people and their learning in some of the respect. It is mainly inclusive of various kinds of digital technologies which can be considered as a distraction. Even young people can easily miss out some of the important kind of development and opportunities for if a large amount of time is directed for various kinds of digital technologies which can be at the expense of another kind of learning and experiences (Leu et al., 2017). Teacher mainly considers digital technologies to have a positive effect on a large number of students learning. Teachers most like to say about the fact that digital technologies will have a positive effect on the students in terms of student engagement in learning and attitude of learning. Only very few researchers indicated the fact that they have negative on the engagement of student engagement or attitude. Teachers are considered to be slightly less in agreement about the effect or impact of digital technologies on the student attention span or even the ability to work in a collaborative way.
Technology can be used for solving a problem or deep learning in today’s classroom rather than digitize teacher worksheet. Learning with distributed multimedia learning have extended the teaching, learning and material source beyond the classrooms (Leu et al., 2017). Technology mainly offers the proper kind of opportunity which can be used by teachers for becoming more collaborative along with extending learning beyond the classroom (Howard, Chan & Caputi, 2015). Various educators around the globe have created some kind of communities which can be easily used for composed learning to a large number of students (Wright, 2015). The enhanced collaboration is mainly enabled by various kinds of technology mainly offers easy kind of access to instructional materials along with resources and various kinds of tools which can be used for creating, managing and accessing instructional materials for accessing quality and usefulness (Voogt et al., 2017). With the development of desktop publishing incorporating drawn or scanned graphics into documents which are considered to be even less than it. Even after that newer increase the common types of real-time data types like sound, animations, and video in an application like computer mail and preparation of documents (Drijvers, 2015). Dynamic documents are all about incorporation into live animation, sound annotation along with video clips into the cells in a given spreadsheet or paragraphs in word-processed documents.
Innovative Learning Strategies for Mastering Digital Age Skills
At present, the computers are increasing at a rapid rate which can be connected to various hardware peripherals like videodisc or even video cassette players, CD-ROM or even CD-Audio decks (Gamrat et al., 2014). Various organization around the globe sell special kind of add-on video and audio boards which mainly enables the digital and use of capture and along with that use in a multimedia software application which can traditionally make use of analog data types (Hrto?ová et al., 2015). Virtual every kind of computers manufacturing is focusing to make use of an operating system which can be used for better handling of various kinds of technical complexities of real-time demand (Howard, Ma & Yang, 2016). It can be used for real-time weaving the provided access and display of new kinds of data types for sound and video.
The time for integrated multimedia requirements can easily emerge from the various needs of users which can be used for used for synchronization. The use of multimedia editing due to increase in aesthetic can be easily derived from interviewing access along with a display of various data types of sound, video and dynamic (Howard, Chan & Caputi, 2015). Data communication using a network of computer-based documents have easily moved to ASCII text and numbers which is included for the format of documents along with graphic and text. A large number of changes in the communication plan and environments for production of documents are mainly considered to be evidence of the arrival of the desktop in the industry of publishing, computing, video and entertainment and lastly telecommunication (Kong et al., 2014).
Technology can empower various kinds of educators to easily become co-learners with various kinds of students which can be achieved by building new kind of experiences for much deeper exploration of content. Technology mainly serves to enrich the given capabilities of participation in the communication which is all about expressing their view (Ozdamli & Uzunboylu, 2015). With the new kind of thinking which mainly highlights the high kind of interactive communication activities among all the participation, one is mainly placed on the topmost leverage in the domain of education in both in and out of the classroom (Coiro et al, 2014). One should distinguish a transformational form to a transmission mode of communication. Communication can be easily stated as a conceived form of education from circulation to the mind of the learner. A major method of communication is not only one method of communication but also a one-way method of transformational but along with two ways transformational (Chiu & Churchill, 2015). Both the teachers and learners have transformed the means by which communication activities between coworkers who are making use of multimedia communication tools (Davison & Daly, 2014). Students are not considered to be blank on which various kinds of the lesson of circulation instead, of that they are considered to have developed substantial and beliefs and various kinds of ways for thinking before coming out the school. Teachers are not considered to be simply broadcaster of information which is available in given curriculum. It mainly requires a significant amount of effort for a various teacher for understanding the fact that student is thinking about the new topic of learning. Along with this, it requires a significant amount of effort for students for easily understanding communication with the help of various teaching activities (Blackwell, Lauricella & Wartella, 2014). The interpretive activities are considered to be necessary for highly interactive controversial exchanges which require responses and repairing from participants. Media technologies require to be much developed so that it can easily foster and can easily allow expansion of the transformational capacities which is used for human communication.
Low price points for learning technologies can easily make easier for educators so that they can easily pilot new kind of technology approaches before making an attempt for school-wide adaptation (Crandall & Bailey, 2018). This kind of educators can easily lead better kind of practices which can be used for evaluation of new tools for privacy along with various kinds of security risk. Teacher-leaders who come up with broad experiences for providing support to learning with technology which can easily work with various kinds of administrators on the fact that how they can easily share their learning with other teachers (Blackwell, Lauricella & Wartella, 2014). They can also provide easy support to their individual peers by proper answering questions and various kinds of modeling practices for making use of technology which can be used for providing support. The emphasis on learning can be easily achieved by controversial is not mainly intended for learning by another kind of means like remembering of any kind of past experiences when an individual is reflecting on the usefulness of current knowledge (Collins & Halverson, 2018).
At present classroom are considered to be media rich places. It also tends to contain all sort of media display devices like film projectors and computers (Chan, Walker & Gleaves, 2015). Each kind of device can easily give teacher and students with excessive kind of expressive technologies. Each kind of devices provides students with expressive kind of qualities. At present each kind of device is separated in communication palette (Drijvers, 2015). There is no kind of underlying theory which is well understood and comprises of experiences which can easily provide details of each device. The media may not be created or displayed with it, brings on to learning or the fact media can easily combine for various kinds of communication outcomes (Blackwell, Lauricella & Wartella, 2014). There are mainly ten skills which are a need for my students for being successful in near future. The list of ten skills are
Adaptive thinking: In today world, various things are looking for change at much faster rates. By the period of time employee learn the new software or program, a better version is out there or about to come (Flewitt, Messer & Kucirkova, 2015). Future employees will need to change on a continuous basis so that they can easily adapt to changing as well as learning new things in the quick and efficient way.
Communication skills: It comes up with emphasis on the ability to learn a large number of things along with establishing communication. In the digital environment, we can easily access a wide range of new ways which can be easily used for establishing communication which ranges from video conferencing to social media (Flood, Heath & Lapp, 2015). Future employees also need to establish communication with various kinds of people on the team as well as some of the people who outside the team and organization.
Collaboration skills: Major of the classroom creates a platform for competition and independence instead of teamwork and collaboration. Employees in the near future will require quick adapt to the culture of collaboration (Howard & Thompson, 2016). Apart from this they also they need to establish collaboration with others who are outside the organization and often making use of a large number of new technologies (Greenhow & Askari, 2017). It continues to be of emphasis on the ability for establishing communication. In this digital market, one needs to get access to wide range of things which can easily have new ways for communication which can easily range from one point to another.
Critical thinking and Problem-solving skills: It has ultimately led to decrease in emphasis on various kinds of employers along with following of a large number of action along with increased emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving (Howard, Chan & Caputi, 2015). In the changing world, various employers need employees who can easily solve problems, providing a list of idea and help in improving the organization.
Personal Management: It is mainly inclusive of ability for various employers to independently plan, create, execute instead of waiting for someone who can easily this for them.
Inquiry skills: A large number of academic assessments mainly ask for a large number of students (Johnstone Wilder, Pimm & Westwell, 2016). The ability to ask a great question to students is mainly considered to be a critical skill which needs to a culture that has continuous innovation.
Technology skills: Almost every business around the globe require skills which can be easily used for using various technologies (Yunus & Suliman, 2014). At the present digital platform technology is required at every place. Very rarely students are required to learn or teach about various kinds of technology inefficient. This particular area needs to emphasized.
Creativity and innovation: This particular skill is mentioned often. It can be easily believed that it can easily correlate with the ability to ask for some kinds of good question. It also emphasizes the ability to learn the way in which various problems can be easily solved (Ozdamli & Uzunboylu, 2015). Various employees are looking for employees who can be more creative and innovative solution to a large number of solution which exists at present.
Soft skills: Schools can rarely spend their time in teaching students with soft skills which is inclusive of skills like time management skills and organizational skills (Røkenes & Krumsvik, 2016). The ability to look for someone in the eyes when having a conversation with them or making use of firm handshake. It is many times encountered that various kinds of business leaders can easily have a certain number of soft skills which might be disappearing with the passage of time (LEU et al., 2014).
Empathy and Perspective: There is a large number of skills which is always considered to be important and it is also considered as one of the methods in which slow processing can be easily done. It also focuses on the ability of students to easily put themselves in someone’s else shoe (Aidinopoulou & Sampson, 2017). It is mainly done for understanding the feelings of the different personalities and to solve their problems.
Form the above discussion it can be easily concluded that this essay is all about effective practice in digital technology which can be used for proper teaching and learning in various schools. Over the last two years, there has been a large number of efforts for providing strength learning with various type of digital schools in worldwide schools. It comes up with better kind of provision of technology infrastructure and programs of professional development. With respect to the use of digital technology for teaching and learning the most common kind of digital learning and practices mainly involves various kinds of digital document production, skill practice and along with research on the internet. Some other practices mainly involve students who are using emerging technologies for the creation of multimedia or code programs which are less common. It also focuses on some kinds of co-curricular activities or opportunities which can be used for market space-based activities. Teacher and principals should generally hold on positive view on the effect or impact of digital technologies on a large number of students’ engagement, attitude and lastly achievement. Although some additional kind of data is mainly required for sustaining the views. Teachers should also think that various kinds of digital technology can easily provide students which much greater kind of control over the learning. Along with this, it can also support various students with additional kind of needs. Both the teachers and principals focus on the fact that pedagogies are mainly evolving or changing as a result of various digital technologies. In the above pages of the report, three question has been addressed as the effective practice of digital technology which is mainly used for teaching and learning in schools. After that, a proper discussion has provided on that should is used for digitizing teacher worksheet rather than problem-solving or deep learning in the classroom. At the end of the report, a list of innovative teaching and learning strategies which is used for mastering digital skills have been discussed in details.
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