Lesson 3: The Roles of Educational Technology in Learning

 

                             

                         '' technology makes the world    a new place''

Technology can play a traditional role as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons or in a constructivist way as partners in the learning process. The learners learn from the technology and the technology serves as a teacher. Technology serves as a medium in representing that the learners knows & what he/she learning.Technology serves as source and presenter of knowledge. It is assumed that knowledge is embedded in the technology. 

               From the traditional point of view, technology serves as source of presenter of knowledge.

         The roles of technology:  The following are :
  1. Technology as tools to support knowledge construction

      For representing learner's ideas understanding a belief.

      For producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases for learners.

  

  2. Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning by constructing. 

      For supporting discourse among knowledge building communities.