Onto the next topic, mobile
technology. According
to Price (2007) mobile technology is ‘the use of handheld technologies enabling
the learner to be ‘on the move’, providing anytime anywhere access for
learning’.
The question is, will these
‘on the move’ technologies replace teachers? I believe that teachers will not
necessarily be replaced by computing devices, but will not be needed to teach
the children, more to support and guide how they use mobile technology to
self-educate. Today there are such a variety of mobile learning, such as voki, tellagami and massive open online courses (MOOCS), that if used by children to support learning at home, they stand a better chance of doing well at school (Next Generation Learning, 2009). However, if these
technologies are not used sufficiently to educate children then they should not
be used at all. Technology should enhance the process of an exercise, not be a
substitute for when the educator cannot decide how to fulfil the end of the lesson. This idea of substitution relates to the SAMR
model, although I think the model is
a good strategy, there is not any constructive evidence that it does work.
I have attached a video below
which I believe to be informative about this topic, I can also relate
personally to some of the points expressed, such as ‘having a memorable teacher,
who had an impact on my life’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gePW63HtV40
References
Hall, D. (2010). the ICT handbook for primary teachers a guide for students and professionals. 1st ed. Oxon: Routledge
.
Higgins, S. Beauchamp, G, and Miller, D. (2007) 'Reviewing
the literature on interactive whiteboards', Learning, Media and Technology.
London: Routledge.
The idea of Mobile learning is new and forever changing. Sharples, Milrad, Arnedillo-Sánchez, and Vavoula (2009) have defined it as the process of learning information through exploring and conversing across multiple contexts with people and technologies.
ReplyDeleteMobile devices are shaping how we learn sub-consciously and consciously. Whether we intend to learn via a computer or not, we pick up little bits of information informally on a regular basis. For example using the applications on an iPad, such as morphi, which can educate, but only when used sufficiently. So, as we move into a future of new and improved technology where they will potentially take over some jobs, teachers must ensure that they are aiding the children and guiding them in what is right and wrong on the internet. For example, how many times have we all been told that ‘Wikipedia is not factual and we shouldn’t use it as a source of information’.
Teachers being replaced is something that I personally do not think will happen, purely for the fact that we need teachers for not just educating us on the syllabus, but also in life, they guide us each day, as majority of the time that we grow up is spent at school, they teach us right from wrong in life, which technology cannot do. Technology cannot provide us with help when we get an answer wrong, they cannot explain ideas in detail. The following video has spoken about this issue and summed it up in a great way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIR60cgfOFU
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ReplyDeleteI agree very much so with the influence mobile devices are having on today’s society and especially the younger generations. It is sometimes worrying that children may become dependent on these devices, creating isolation or a feeling of being left out for children who do not always have mobile connectivity (Xu, 2016).
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Xu, X. (2016). Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices. 1st ed. USA: IGI Global.