Instructional technology

While Technology can foster more cheating in class and on assignments, Technology has limitless resources for improving education and making learning more amusing and operative. Because we live in digital world students can learn life skills through technology, and students have immediate access to information that can complement their learning experience. Although time has passed, technology has become the forerunner and society has become more reliable on technology. Technology helps to…

been without them, that will make the difference between success or failure (Szumski, Karson).” Over the past few decades technology has grown to be more advanced and easily obtainable. This shift has lead to the question of whether the impact this technology has on society is positive or negative, specifically to the people who are growing up with it. The use of modern technology in society today for educational and recreational use has more benefits for those who use it, such as educators,…

When an entire generation grows up being surrounded by vastly improving technology that evolves to suit your needs, with fast products and easy results, they start to lose their patience to search for real answers. According to Valerie S. Thatcher, this affects the students and teachers learning and teaching in the electronic age. Since everything on the internet is found rapidly and effortlessly, often the members of the generation y don’t bother looking into the credibility of their sources,…

Not Impossible Labs and their "Technology for Humanity" Introduction: I. Attention Statement Have you ever imagined how simple, little inventions like these could have such a profound impact in people’s lives? (Insert Photo) II. Topic Today I will talk about a group of inventors called the Not Impossible Labs and their “Technology for Humanity.” III. Importance Not Impossible Labs is a group of innovators and programmers that develop open-source software and creative solutions to…

field-dependent, field-independent, concrete perceivers, abstract perceivers, left-brain thinkers, and right-brain thinkers. They also discussed Behaviorist, Cognitivists, Constructivists, and Humanists learning theories. I liked how they noted that instructional methods must be varied depending on factors such as subject taught, students, class size, etc. While they note that, “commonly, more than one method is used during a single session” they fail to connect this type of variation and…

College Students Should Use Technology Wisely Recollecting my first class in college, I saw many students carried laptops or tablets, taking notes faster than me on these devices. Interestingly, I found out they are also using them in class, escaping from the reality to a fascinating online world. That is how Millennials attend a traditional lecture based class. The characteristics of the digital era defined what they learn and how they learn. Millennial college students are facilitating and…

When it comes to the argument of whether technology overall benefits this generation or inhibits it, Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie as well as Jennifer Gabriel have created articles that present efficient information on the two standpoints. Anderson, staff member at Elon University, and Rainie, member of the Pew Research Center, examine whether today’s younger generation has been altered from constant technology use in their article entitled “The Future of the Internet,” published in 2012.…

TPACK emerged as a framework for identifying and understanding the complex interplay of teachers’ technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge and how these knowledge bases influence how a teacher effectively integrates technology into classroom instruction (Hutchison, Beschorner, & Schmidt-Crawford, 2012). While new media literacies are a set of cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in the new media landscape it involves social skills developed…

Literacy The terms digital divide, digital literacy, and digital inclusion have been widely used in discourse related to the Internet over the past two decades. Even though these terms are rarely defined and their meanings shift with changes in technology, these concepts have driven many things to become the same purpose especially in highlighting the importance of of digital literacy in every aspect. 13.1 The learning process By developing a digital infrastructure would create a supportive, in…

instructors and gives the opportunity to become active participants within the eLearning community. Is my chosen course mobile compatible? Simpliv believes in providing the most comprehensive and integrated solutions compatible with the latest technology. Our online courses are designed with maximum compatibility with the largest variety of devices. Simpliv uses HTML5 and jQuery in order…