How does technology hinder the child’s cognitive learning pr

How does technology hinder the child’s cognitive learning process in classrooms K-12?

Maddie Winecoff

Shelley Highfill

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Lucia Denk

Today's Schedule

Please check your phones!!!!

Went through 1-6 of the interdisciplinary research process

Analyzed the question from different perspectives

Looked at the positives and negatives of technology

Identify the problem

Is technology really helping children learn within the classroom, or is it hindering the child’s ability to make cognitive and reasoning based decisions?

Study the conflicts and common ground between the disciplines.

Disciplinary Adequacy

Has technology influenced YOUR education thus far?

• Cognitive Psychology

is the study of mental processes.

• Education is giving or receiving information typically in a school

or university.

• Communications is

how people receive information.

We are looking at how effective using educational technology as a communication tool is between teachers, students and parents on a psychological basis.

Identify relevant disciplines

Justify using an interdisciplinary approach.

Article

Technology use permeates virtually all aspects of twenty-first century society, though its integration in early childhood settings and recognition as a developmentally appropriate practice remains problematic. A position is taken that education professionals may be ‘missing the boat’ by not embracing technology usage as a developmentally appropriate practice. Concerns are presented that both preservice education and inservice professional development require substantial improvement if early childhood education professionals are to both recognize the role of technology in developmentally appropriate practice and develop skills in using it in classroom settings.

• Try looking at how children learn without talking to teachers...
• Ok...how about learning without psychology...
• Ok...how about technology without communication...
• Without representing each discipline, it is difficult to see the big picture and important steps are missed.

The Steps to Follow:

1) Think of Potentially Relevant Disciplines.

2) Identify the Most Relevant.

Our Relevant Disciplines:

Education, Communications, Psychology

Ideas

Notes

Technological Determinism

Combining 3 theories

Technology is seen as the fundamental condition underlying the pattern of social organization.

• Places to search:
• Lexis/Nexis
• Google Scholar
• ProQuest
• What to search:
• Education, Psychology, Communication
• Students, learning, technology, "educational technology"

Conduct a Literature Search

Each discipline contains multiple theories, evaluating these theories gives insight into our problem and allows us to offer better solutions to our problem.

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Social Learning Theory

A behavioral worldview that emphasizes that people learn by watching others and that our thoughts about the reinforcers determine our behavior. Cognitive behaviorists focus on charting and modifying people's thoughts.

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Education's Viewpoint: Both Positive and Negative Insights on Educational Technology

Positive: Technology can significantly enhance skill development in specific subject matter, such as science and math. It can also help with engagement/creativity in learning.

Negative: Technology can pose difficulties for the educators themselves, such as limited access to computers for all children, financial issues of affording technology, malfunctioning problems, and aversion by educators to change the social structure of the classroom environment.