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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

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