Principles in digital technology and education

The task

Draw directly on the resources and experiences that have been provided during those weeks, including your reading of prescribed texts, your participation in online discussions, and wider reading. Your participation in the online learning activities (slack.com discussions and online roleplay) contributes to your assessment of this task (see assessment criterion 1 below).

Submission:

Identify, explain and discuss the main guiding ideas, values or principles that underpin your understanding of how technology is relevant to education and how it ought to be used or not used.

Develop your own guiding principles, but we have provided some suggestions below which you are also free to use.

Guiding principles:

Approaches to teaching and learning, such as: student enquiry, play-based learning, drill and practice, and students as producers.

Contemporary principles of teaching and learning, such as: differentiation, inclusion, student voice, learning community, feedback, school-home links, community connection, student choice, student engagement/motivation, safe learning environment.

Values of technology, such as: convenience, reliability, flexibility, communication, seamlessness.

To support your explanation of your guiding principles, discuss concrete examples taken from your own use of technology in formal and informal learning situations, or examples that you have encountered through observation or discussion (for example, as relayed to you by others in the online discussions for this unit).

Also support your discussion with references to the set readings and to your own further reading.