There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.
Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.
Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.
Let students use technologies in the classroom.
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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