Best Practice In Education Technology

The term "Best Practice" has been used to describe "what works" in a particular situation or environment. Trends are influencing Education, making us realized Education was intended to be done with and by learners and not done to them. Learners in this digital era have adopted and adapted to technology, so why not use that tendency in our advantage and incorporate it in the classrooms as a key element to increase motivation in the learning process.

“Technology and digital media continue to represent a powerful pathway for advancing the goals of education, including raising academic achievement and preparing students for college and career. In time for Digital Learning Day, the new paper, Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom, supported by the Cable Impacts Foundation, explores digital learning as a promising strategy for improving students’ educational experiences and highlights the efforts of schools across the country focused on reshaping the traditional learning environment.” (e-schoolnews)

One trend, for example is the New Structure and Funding Models, that uses technology to expand the leading-edge of traditional learning/teaching activities, as well as its covered areas causing a more effective impact challenging the traditional school structure. It forces to modified the structure not only in the context of how to learn a subject, but when and even where it should take place.The new rising technology allows to get access to a wider group of individuals with the same interests in despite of their location or age. For example, with applications such as Evernote, where students can save their class notes and share them with other student, it can also help them organize their homework and set reminders.


The future is forcing us to change the orthodox curriculum and pedagogy methods and adapt them in such way that it fit the  progressing technology.

Sources: 

Ctserc.org 

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