Advantages
Disadvantages
Interactive Environment
Distraction
- Tempted to explore games, videos, music, and other things available
- Intense monitoring
- Keeping students on task
- Increases student engagement and motivation
- Active participants vs. inactive participants
- Examples: BrainPop, Flocabulary, and Kahoot
- https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/theme/
Validity of Information
Unlimited Resources
- Factual vs. nonfactual information
- Confusion and misunderstanding
- Quality of information
- Is it reliable?
- Information is constantly updated
- New sources published daily
- Multiple sources to validate their answer
What is EdTech?
Necessary Skills for Future
Access to Inappropriate Material
- Many work fields are dominated by technology today
- Equips students with the skills needed later in life
- Good vs. bad resources
- Violence
- Pornography
- Hateful language
Good for the environment
- Educational Technology is a complex term that is comprised of many components
- 5 key components
- Considers implementation
- Appropriate use of tools, resources, and processes
- Facilitate an interactive learning environment
- Enhance teaching practices
- Improve learning outcomes
Promotes Cheating & Laziness
- Less paper
- Save resources
- Reduced trees cut down
- Global warming
- Transition to digital textbooks and turning in assignments online
- Rely on internet to find answer
- Online tests
- Cellphones
- Laziness
- Time efficient
- Less work
- Mindless work
Feedback and Responses
Inhibit Basic Skills
- Immediate reports and feedback on student progress
- Reduces time spent grading
- Extra time devoted to more meaningful work
- Lose knowledge of basic skills
- Calculator - addition and subtraction skills
- Spell check
- Don't learn how to spell correctly
Reduced Weight in Backpack/ Organization
Technology is Faulty
- Does not always work
- Depends on many factors
- Runs on electricity
- Easily be attacked by viruses
- Not always reliable or dependable
- All materials stored on one device
- Less to carry in backpack
- More organized
- Less materials to keep up with
- Use of folders on electronic device
Advantages and Disadvantages of Educational Technology
THANK YOU!
Madelyn Casal