How Can Technology Transform Education?

1. How Can Technology
Transform Education ?

2. While life outside our
schools has changed
dramatically over the past
century, we cling to an
early industrialized
classroom model that
often fails to encourage
collaboration, innovation,
a global work ethic, or
critical problem-solving
skills.
November, A. (2012). Who Owns the Learning? : Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age. Bloomington, IN, USA: Solution Tree Press. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com

7. “As the amount of information available to us
explodes, as well as our access to it, what matters
is not what students know but how they acquire
that knowledge and what they can do with it.”
Pahomov, L. (2014). Authentic Learning in the Digital Age :
Engaging Students Through Inquiry. Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD.

8. If teachers or schools want to, they can use technology to prop
up the same old curriculum and policies. (A multiple-choice
exam given on a laptop is still just a multiple-choice exam.)
Usually this lack of transformation is due to a lack of
enthusiasm for innovation on the part of the educators

9. As educators, we need to avoid delivering lectures
and give students some kind of choice in their
assignments, favoring projects and papers over
tests and quizzes. We need to create
opportunities for students to teach and learn from
each other. Technology is the means to this end.
Pahomov, L. (2014). Authentic Learning in the Digital Age :
Engaging Students Through Inquiry. Alexandria, Virginia:
ASCD.

11. SKILLS THAT TECHNOLOGY ENCOURAGES:
• Inquiry
• Research
• Collaboration
• Presentation
• Reflection

12. We need to provide inquiry-based classrooms
where “…students should be constructing
knowledge instead of having teachers hand it to
them.”
Pahomov, L. (2014). Authentic Learning in the Digital Age : Engaging Students Through Inquiry. Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD.

13. BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR THE STUDENT:
• Technology makes it simple for students to reach out to the larger world.
• Students are already exploring and benefiting from the transformative properties of
technology as they use it outside of the classroom.
• Students are often ahead of the game when it comes to personalizing their own learning
• By leveraging the internet as a showcase space, especially by plugging into existing
venues for written and multimedia work, students experience the pride of being
“professional” and get the benefit of outside feedback.
• The school is somewhere they want to be. Just as adults enjoy a work environment that
engages and challenges them, students will respond to a school that values their
individual contribution to their learning.
• Technology—and, in particular, access to the Internet—allows learning to become
personalized. It allows for infinite possibilities for learning inside a single classroom.
• In a classroom with integrated technology access to the Internet gives students the
flexibility to pursue their own personal interests.

15. It is important to note that the teacher’s voice,
when filtered through technology, does not
automatically have more weight; suddenly the
teacher is just another commenter on the
discussion thread, or another face in the video
chat. This reality certainly requires a shift in
thinking on the part of educators, but the increase
in student voice makes the transition worthwhile.

16. ISTE Standard for Students 1: Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products
and processes using technology.
Constant access to resources and communities means more time to actually practice and create
instead of slowly tracking down basic information.
Pahomov, L. (2014). Authentic Learning in the Digital Age :
Engaging Students Through Inquiry. Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD.

17. According to the Pew Research Center, teens have unprecedented access to tech tools. In 2012, 93 percent had a computer at
home and 37 percent had their own smart phone (Madden, Lenhart, Duggan, Cortesi, & Gasser, 2013).
Benefits for Teachers:
• Students own the learning
• Students work harder than the teacher
• The teacher no longer has to serve as the sole source of knowledge. The teacher must
now aid and assist students in their own quest for knowledge
• Immediate feedback
• Allows for differentiation
• Makes communication with both students and parents more efficient
November, A. (2012). Who Owns the Learning? : Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age. Bloomington, IN, USA: Solution Tree Press. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com
Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Duggan, M., Cortesi, S., & Gasser, U. (2013, March 13). Teens and technology2013. Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Available: http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_TeensandTechnology2013.pdf.

18. https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=-N3drjH856Q
Learning - Childhood in the Digital Age (#5/5)

19. Instead of a rigid set of rules for implementation, classrooms
need a framework that is solid in its approach toward teaching
and learning but leaves room for educators to adapt technology
to their subject area and teaching style. This kind of framework
both maximizes the transformative properties of technology and
minimizes its potential misuse.

20. How WE can use technology meaningfully, to
support a personalized-inquiry curriculum:
Start SIMPLE:
lnstead of paper agenda books, use online calendars and to-do lists, with reminders and organizers
built in. Teachers can benefit from this transition not only for their own lives, but also for the
management of their classrooms.
-No more making copies
-no more losing papers
-alleviate the stress of providing feedback (typing faster than writing)
-online grades/progress

21. “As more powerful digital tools become
available for free or little cost, the
opportunities for our students to apply these
skills will only continue to multiply”
November, A. (2012). Who Owns the Learning? : Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age. Bloomington, IN, USA: Solution Tree Press. Retrieved from
http://www.ebrary.com

22. REFERENCES
Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Duggan, M., Cortesi, S., & Gasser, U. (2013, March 13). Teens and
technology2013. Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University. Available:
http://www.pewinternet.org/files/oldmedia//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_TeensandTechnology2013.pdf.
November, A. (2012). Who Owns the Learning? : Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age.
Bloomington, IN, USA: Solution Tree Press. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com
Pahomov, L. (2014). Authentic Learning in the Digital Age : Engaging Students Through Inquiry. Alexandria,
Virginia: ASCD