Why is electronically mediated teaching/learning important for the desired skills and knowledge of the future?
I think the biggest part of the answer is that use of electronically mediated teaching/ learning reinforces skill sets that are becoming more and more prevalent in society. By embracing technology we are not only teaching them curriculum, we’re teaching how to function in today’s society and arming them to take on the future. I also think as learners evolve so must the ways we engage and facilitate learning experiences for them. As we just learned, learners today have very different skill sets, mind sets, capabilities, ways of looking at the world and abilities. We as educators need to embrace these traits so that we can reach them and help them learn and ultimately, grow. Furthermore, technology opens the door to a world of possibilities! Especially in this current era of distance learning and considering the learners we’re working with these days, we need to incorporate a vast amount of resources for use in our practice. Students nowadays don’t want to be lectured to, they want to discover, they want inquiry, design and project based learning. The want to be escorted through a learning experience not have information disseminated to them which they then need to regurgitate back to us come assessment time. That model was never strong and it’s especially not strong now!
I think the biggest part of the answer is that use of electronically mediated teaching/ learning reinforces skill sets that are becoming more and more prevalent in society. By embracing technology we are not only teaching them curriculum, we’re teaching how to function in today’s society and arming them to take on the future. I also think as learners evolve so must the ways we engage and facilitate learning experiences for them. As we just learned, learners today have very different skill sets, mind sets, capabilities, ways of looking at the world and abilities. We as educators need to embrace these traits so that we can reach them and help them learn and ultimately, grow. Furthermore, technology opens the door to a world of possibilities! Especially in this current era of distance learning and considering the learners we’re working with these days, we need to incorporate a vast amount of resources for use in our practice. Students nowadays don’t want to be lectured to, they want to discover, they want inquiry, design and project based learning. The want to be escorted through a learning experience not have information disseminated to them which they then need to regurgitate back to us come assessment time. That model was never strong and it’s especially not strong now!
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