EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES in TEACHING & LEARNING

1. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES in TEACHING & LEARNING

2. technologies inTEACHING & LEARNING

3. What is technology? • Technology is about creating instructional environments that can facilitate active engagement, meet the specific and varying learning needs of the students, facilitate collaborative problem solving, providing students with authentic learning environments.

4. Emerging Technology in Education • There is a wide availability of new and emerging technology tools that can assist teacher in making teaching much easier and much more fun.

5. Emerging Technology in Education • This integration has become even more essential since technology is becoming the engine on which teaching and learning operates. • The world is therefore forced to invest in the use of technology into institutions to meet the needs of students. • E-learning, M-learning, etc..

6. technologies inTEACHING & LEARNING(teachers-students)

7. Emerging Technology in Education • Technology integration is the use of technology resources in education: • Computers, Laptops • Digital cameras • CD-ROMs • Hardware tools: LCD, Printer, Scanner • Software applications • Internet

8. Technology in Teaching & Learning • Teaching (Teachers’ Perspective) • To apply the use of technology in a seamless manner so that it supports and extends curriculum objectives and engages students in meaningful learning. • Learning (Students’ Perspective) • Technology integration in education requires students to actively use technology, not just view technology-based content created by their teachers.

9. Technology in Teaching & Learning • 1. Technology provides motivation for students by: • Gaining learner attention • Engaging the learner through production work • Increasing perceptions of control • 2. Technology offers unique instructional capabilities: • Linking learners to information and educational resources • Helping learners visualize problems and solutions • Tracking learner progress • Linking learners to learning tools

10. Technology in Teaching & Learning • 3. Technology gives support for new instructional approaches: • Cooperative learning • Shared intelligence • Problem solving and higher level skills • 4. Technology skills are required for an information age: • Technology literacy • Information literacy • Visual literacy

11. Technology in Teaching & Learning • 5. Technology increased teacher productivity by: • Freeing time to work with students by helping with production and record-keeping tasks • Providing more accurate information more quickly • Allowing teachers to produce better looking, more “student-friendly” materials more quickly

12. Importance of Technologies in Education • Almost all students and teachers in academic, industry, government, and education are required to use technology. • The technology skills and knowledge that students gain in the classroom will create a foundation for the technology skills and knowledge they will need in the future. • Job Perspective • Future Careers • Higher Education

13. The growth of web-based technology in education

14. Educational Technology • All are free • All are web-based • All are collaborative • All involve creating content

15. Blended Learning

16. E-Learning http://www.thethinkingstick.com/the-purpose-of-a-back-channel-necc09/

17. Emerging Technologies

18. Emerging Technologies

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20. Podcasts Lecturer generated podcasts

21. Virtual Noticeboard

22. Moodle Student generated podcasts / vodcasts

24. OpenCast

25. others

26. Zimbio Zimbiois a collaborative website to share your articles, photos, blog.  Pre-Journalism majors, artists, writers, photographers

27. Digg • A place to share all the interesting “things” you find on the Internet, let the online community decide what they ‘Digg’ (or like best), and then join a discussion of its content. • A place to meet people with like interests (social networking).

28. Wikis A means for online collaboration and creation

29. An online, collaborative, mind-Mapping tool. Mind-Meister

30. Ning TIE!

31. Sites where users can interact online through data analysis (Swivel) and visualization Swivel Preview

32. Slideshare • SlideShareis the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. • Able to upload your presentations (ppt, pdf, pps, pot, odp, keynote) and share with others • find/download interesting presentations • embed them into blogs or websites create a slidecast by linking your slides with audio • Completely free.

33. ix Wix What is it? Build a Flash website Free!No coding!

34. Synchronous Video Interactive Conferencing (WiZ-iQ)- A place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. - Able to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. - As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun. Wiz-IQ What is it?

35. Virtual Learning (to create virtual content & spaces) Virtual Reality – 3D What is it?

36. Emerging Technologies Acceptance • The acceptance of change is a major requirement for technology integration. • Technology is continuously changing. It is an ongoing process, therefore it demands continual learning. • Technology integration is achieved when technology is accessible and readily available for the task at hand • Technology integration is achieved when technology tools support the curricular goals, and help the students to reach their goals. • Students are more actively engaged in projects when technology integration is crucial for the learning process.

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