Written 4- My reflections on how technology can bring about improvement and make teaching and

learning practices more efficient or effective.?

Instructor - Dr. Lisa Davis.
Student - D.G.A ( Anon.)
Masters of Education (M.Ed.) in advanced teaching.
EDUC- 5280-01 Instructional Techniques Secondary- AY2023- T1.
Date: 25th September 2022.

In this assignment, you will write a persuasive paper that addresses the following: Examine how
technology can bring about improvement and make teaching and learning practices more efficient or
effective.

While you are encouraged to draw from all of the readings over the course, you will find the following
reading especially helpful:

Higgins, S., Xiao, Z., & Katsipataki, M. (2012). The impact of digital technology on learning: A summary
for the Education Endowment Foundation. Retrieved from:
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/The_Impact_of_Digital_Technolo
gies_on_Learning_(2012).pdf

This document includes numerous research studies you may choose to cite in your paper to support your
claims.

Technology is an improvement to teaching and learning practices as well as to educational distribution.

Abstract:

This written activity is based on my reflection on the readings from this week and thinking about how
technology can generate improvements and intrinsically empower teaching so as to make teaching more
effective and learning practices more efficient accordingly. In principle, the relevant components will
also be broken down, and briefly explained, with respect to the impact that digital technology has had on
learning. The paper will also integrate and share a variety of anecdotes from my experience as a teacher
accordingly too. The information in the following essay is collected from different articles and a range of
different opinions, as well.

Keywords: technology, advancement, learning, e-learning, LMS, and shared learning community.
The traditional teaching model of education doesn’t allow for the development of many of the skills
essential for the 21st century (otherwise known as 21 CS skills). The traditional learned was conceived
for another time it is based generally on rote learning, active instruction by the teacher, and the passive
reception of knowledge by the student. In this model, students are very unlikely to develop their own
initiative, have limited creativity, and limited opportunities to collaborate with others, just to mention a
few different things.

In order to prepare the citizens for the 21st century, a paradigm shift is essential which begins by giving
more priority to the student and allowing him/her to learn at their own pace and doing it more actively and
in accordance with their learning context. ( Samper, 2019).

It is there, where innovation in informational technology and communication is one of the most evolving
and dynamically changing processes in the globalized world, for the improvement of the respective
educational quality and has demonstrated great promise in being able to develop these skills, initiative,
creativity, and spark within all of our students.

The advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), today have become an essential
component of human daily life, and today has generated new forms of socialization, education,
knowledge, education, knowledge production, and also access to much more information. These have in
fact caused growing massification in the alternatives of connectivity tools, the demand for smart devices,
and the consumption of digital content within our media; bringing with it the need for an equitable
allocation and the proper use by our society, baring the responsibility of it all and much more from the
educational institutions of our society today, facilitating for better labor and social performance of its
teachers too.

The changes that society has undergone and will undergo in the 21 st century will create new challenges
within all sectors. Advances in science and technology occupy a fundamental place in the development of
people’s daily lives. In the education sector, technology has become a supporting and essential element to
achieve the necessary changes within the teaching-learning process and domain, because they in fact
facilitate the creation of hybrid learning spaces, giving teachers the reflection and possibility of rethinking
traditional teaching activities, expanding and complementing them with a range of associative new
technologies.
According to Sierra, Bueno, and Monroy (2016), “ICT media, teachers, and students all interact in the
process of growth education and learning that everyone enjoys equitable access to knowledge andywhere
and ay anytime.”Within human activity, the means must be used to be more efficient in the integral
development of the people, and in the educational community, the implementation of ICT must be
promoted to improve the respective teaching-learning processes. As such the computer itself is the “be all
and end all” within the framework of technology, but a tool that allows us to carry out tasks that can’t be
carried out by other existing means, as yet.

In relation to the construction of knowledge and in applying the constructivist approach, Galvis (2001),
states that an educational environment is thus configured as its own recognized entity that is much more
than a set of means, and various materials that seek to inherently change the traditional design of the
classroom, whereby the paper and pencil mode (and methodologies), had its own transcendental role. This
will allow us to evolve and establish a new form of style, in which the same tools will be and are present,
but adding the application of the new communication technologies, will contribute to a new way of
educating themselves (and into the greater society as it spreads onto a larger scale). These principles of
uptake of new technologies (on mass adoption namely nowadays through VR and AR technologies) will
create within the student's unique experiences for the construction of new kinds of knowledge and also
information.

Summary:
From my personal experiences to date, and as a previous ESL teacher in Thailand and Hong Kong, who
has transitioned into being a full-time STEM teacher now based in Hong Kong, the school and STEM
learning center where I currently work had to pivot and move our interactive (AR / VR compatible and
compliant LMS and associated technologies online), expeditiously as a matter of survival, natural
evolution and out of adaptation.

This uptake of technology was exacerbated by the onslaught that schools and others in the community
faced from the purported pandemic, Cov-19, and we have since discovered that the new technologies have
offered us new teaching opportunities and new/novel ways of displaying information and their inherent
files (including audio, video, infographics, images, and also associated animations).In addition, the
technologies have provided us the ability and contingency for an immediate response that allows us to
collect information and also provide timely feedback so that we can adjust the class to the pace of
learning. The main challenge is to use these technologies effectively so that they can serve the interests of
all in society and our entire educational community at large too. ( INFOBAE, 2017).
References:

Brown, A. H. & Green, T. D. (2016). The essentials of instructional design: Connecting fundamental
principles with process and practice. Routledge.
https://ikhsanaira.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/the-essential-of-instructional-design.pdf

INFOBAE. (2017). Improve education through technology. Retrieved 24th September. From.
https://www.infobae.com/opinion/2017/04/21/mejorar-la-educacion-a-traves-de-la-
tecnologia/

Higgins, S., Xiao, Z., & Katsipataki, M. (2012). The impact of digital technology on learning: A
summary for the Education Endowment Foundation. Retrieved from:
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Public

Samper, M. (2019). The transformation of learning with the use of educational technologies. Retrieved
24th September. From.
https://www.thedialogue.org/blogs/2019/10/la-transformacion-del-aprendizaje-con-el-uso-de-technologias
-educativas/?lang=es

Sierra, L. J; Well, G. I; and Monroy, T. S. (2016). Analysis of TIC Technologies Use by Teachers of
Pedagogical Institutes of Riohacha City. Retrieved 24th September. From.
https://www.redalyc.org/jatsRepo/737/73749821005/html/index.html
Technology as an improvement in teaching and learning practices.
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References:
INFOBAE. (2017). Improve education through technology.
https://www.infobae.com/opinion/2017/04/21/mejorar-la-educacion-a-traves-de-la-
tecnologia/
Samper, M. (2019). The Transformation of Learning with the use of Educational Technologies.
https://www.thedialogue.org/blogs/2019/10/la-transformacion-del-aprendizaje-con-el-
uso-de-tecnologias-educativas/?lang=es
Sierra, L. J; Well, G. I; and Monroy, T. S. (2016). Analysis of TIC Technologies Use by
Teachers of Pedagogical Institutes of Riohacha City.