This article “Implications of Shifting Technology in
Education” looks at technology trends and the consequences these trends will
have on the present students and future students and what changes need to be
made. It also discusses the capacities
of growth in new media and the technology industry and how they are pointers of
increasingly flexible, value of technology and personalize of technology. This article also discusses potential pitfall
that need to be addressed. Lastly this article also looks forward as to where
this new technology will take us as teachers and students. Also if switching technology every time the latest
and greatest things come out is wise, and the positives and negative affects
this can have on our students. This
article also mentions how even though technology has advanced and teachers have
to a point that colleges have not quite jumped on board and how ineffective
that type of teaching can actually be, it sends the wrong message to
professionals.
This article had some major points that students need
personalized instruction and that when student get personalized instruction that
real learning happens. I think many
people are put off by this thinking that it would to overwhelming and not able
to happen in the classroom but it is already happening in the classroom and
with technology inter-graded it’s called differentiated instruction. The difference now is that it is more
technology based. I still believe that
technology should enhance learning not become the mode of teaching. This article was insightful as to what we are
doing today and the implications of tomorrow.
Holland, J., & Holland, J. (2014). Implications of Shifting Technology in Education. Techtrends: Linking Research & Practice To Improve Learning, 58(3), 16-25.
