PROFED12 students to work at their own pace

as a review or extension activity.

First and foremost, educators want Since the development of the
students to learn.Examples include worldwide web in the mid-1990s,
the whiteboard, index cards, the ability to create, store and
posters, audience response systems. share digital learning resources has
expanded exponentially. Globally,
Audience Response Systems significant effort has been put into
Obtaining formative feedback in the creating collections, or repositories,
classroom is a powerful ingredient of these resources, so that
for supporting student learning. teachers can draw upon them for
Through audience response systems their lessons.
instructors can know in real-time Teachers can set a range of
the degree to which students communication learning activities for
understand concepts, and can students, including journal writing,
nuance strategies to ensure that speech writing, preparing topic
students engage in higher-order talks, newsletters and debates.
thinking around course material. Technology can be embedded
Open Educational Resources meaningfully and engagingly into
these activities. Communication
“OER” signals, in addition to
tools include: word-processing,
resources, wider dissemination of
presentation and publishing
educational content that prompts
software, webpage authoring tools,
new approaches to teaching. A
email and online discussion forums.
variety of OERs exist for
Collaborative learning with
instructors to consider as they seek
technology Collaborative learning is
to provide more resources, active
typically understood to be a
instruction, and lower costs.
situation in which two or more
Teachers use digital resources for a
students work together to search
variety of purposes and in many
for understanding or meaning, or to
ways, including: • As a way to
solve a problem. Students might
introduce students to a topic • As
work together to make meaning by
part of a teacher lecture or
creating an artefact or product.
demonstration • As a stimulus to
Collaborative learning is an
group or whole-class discussion • To
important learning strategy for
provide students with access to
educators to teach and to use in
different text types • To engage
their classrooms. It improves
students in activities that are not
student knowledge by combining
possible in the classroom • To allow
strengths, sharing responsibilities
and learning from one another, Students must learn that
which brings together many exploration doesn't mean just
opportunities for enriching running around doing what they want
knowledge. In these learning and ending up who knows where.
experiences, students work together Educators must recognize that if
towards a common goal and, through students are investigating and
the process, depend on each other asking questions, writing about what
for their experiences and they're learning, and doing those
knowledge. things in an authentic context, then
The pace of technological change in they are learning to read and write
society and in schools has been and think..
exponential and will continue to be
so. Teachers are using ICT to
support their role in providing
students with structure and advice, TED
monitoring their progress and
Students are without a doubt bound
assessing their accomplishments.
to recommend TED for other
When students use technology to
students – and rightly so!TED is
conduct research projects, analyse
illuminating, pushes your thought
data, solve problems, design
limits, and helps expand the
products and assess their own work,
boundaries of thought and
they work with others to create and
imagination for every single age.
communicate new knowledge and
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understandings. This chapter has
of all time.”
presented a range of tools and a
range of teaching and learning
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strategies. These strategies are
digital-learning-tools-apps-
based on theories of learning that
university-students
allow teachers to provide different
experiences for their students.
Technology is changing all the time
and what we know about how to use
that technology effectively is
developing continuously. As a future
teacher, you will continue to develop
your understanding and practice
regarding the use of technology to
help your students learn
effectively.