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How long can we continue to add technology to teaching and learning before we fundamentally reconsider the entire process, including the spaces and structures of learning? Photo credit: Idaefix If you have not yet realized it, smart phones and other intelligent mobile devices are invisibly becoming the prime just-in-time learning tools: podcasts, " small chunk learning ", listening to video lectures, email, navigation. At the same time most schools and educational institutions deliver classes just like we were still in the 70s. Yes, there is greater computer and PowerPoint usage, some web site gets to be shown, and the instructor has also a mini-site listing the topics selected for the course you are attending. But it ends pretty much here. In this Media Literacy Digest issue , educational technologies expert George Siemens goes after making sense of the role that new technologies play in defining the new ways and approaches in which we are going to be learning . Unless we understand that is the approach, the strategy and not the tools that need to be changed inside education, we may be in for a still very long and disappointing ride. What counts, toward making our future learning experiences more effective is not so much an increased use of new technologies, but rather a greater ability to design approaches to access, share, and interact with information that make the technology apparently disappear while enhancing our abilities to ...
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How long can we continue to add technology to teaching and learning before we fundamentally reconsider the entire process, including the spaces and structures of learning? Photo credit: Idaefix If you have not yet realized it, smart phones and other intelligent mobile devices are invisibly becoming the prime just-in-time learning tools: podcasts, " small chunk learning ", listening to video lectures, email, navigation. At the same time most schools and educational institutions deliver classes just like we were still in the 70s. Yes, there is greater computer and PowerPoint usage, some web site gets to be shown, and the instructor has also a mini-site listing the topics selected for the course you are attending. But it ends pretty much here. In this Media Literacy Digest issue , educational technologies expert George Siemens goes after making sense of the role that new technologies play in defining the new ways and approaches in which we are going to be learning . Unless we understand that is the approach, the strategy and not the tools that need to be changed inside education, we may be in for a still very long and disappointing ride. What counts, toward making our future learning experiences more effective is not so much an increased use of new technologies, but rather a greater ability to design approaches to access, share, and interact with information that make the technology apparently disappear while enhancing our abilities to ...