How People Learn and What Technology Might Have To Do with It

Using technology is now how people learn in a fast, efficient way. This tool has a great advantage, building a new, clear understanding of how the world works nowadays, learning and get broader our social networking facilitating learning means in different areas in order to be able to engage and manipulate complex issues having the opportunity to be creative and innovative for own our benefits and experience.

Many technologies are interactive, creating accessible environments in which students can learn by doing, receive feedback, and continually improve their understanding and build knowledge no matter the age. For example, “computers can replicate and integrate a wide variety of media for learning and education: text, video/film, animations, graphics, photos, diagrams, simulations, and more. As a result, technology can be designed to provide much richer learning experiences without sacrificing what traditional learning media offer” (Barron, 1998).

We are always creating new ideas increasing our capacity to collect, transmit different information, seeking utmost efficiency to grow as professionals and increase our participation in getting a successful enterprising future, even having new strengths in areas where we never thought we were capable of having them challenge us constantly, applying, updating concepts build upon previously acquired skills.

Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching

Technology is a practical application of human knowledge to solve real problems through the design of tools and machines. Nowadays people are really helped with this kind of tool, whether it is to communicate, to give them some entertainment or even to help them with their job. All of those things really prove that technology give comfort, world access in order to get the information faster in our daily life. Even though there some disadvantages in the process where people get lazy, become less critical thinkers because they can find almost everything in the net without trying too hard and unfortunately the misuse of technology for crimes that several people do.
Nevertheless the net is nowadays a universal medium where the transmission of information happens automatically in a daily basis, is part of who we are as a whole society.

Here are the most important general concepts which can help us to understand more about this topic.

Instructional technology : getting training to use technology to teach others. The use of a variety of teaching tools to improve student learning.

Technology for learning: is the use of technological means to support learning.

Educational technology : studies the ethical practice of facilitation learning and improving performances by creating using and managing technological process and resources.
UAE Journal: Education Technological and E-learning

BenefitsEasy access
Students motivate
Wide participations
Improve students writing
Subjects make easier to learn

Rational
Motivation: gaining learner attention, unique instructional capabilities
Support for new instructional approaches
Increase teaching productivity
Require skills for information age.

Seven principles
1. Encourage contact between the students and the Faculty
2. Develops the reciprocity and cooperation between students
3. Encourage active learning
4. Gives prompt feedback
5. Emphasizes time on tasks.
6. Communicates high expectations
7. Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

Strategies to use internet effectively

Using technology for education can help teachers and students to connect and apply new information developing their learning skills on this type of instruction, in order to have the ability later on to break problems down and organize their solutions. Nowadays representing and communicating such complex problem situations is an important function of technology.

This presentation is about having valuables strategies in order to use the internet in fast and accurate way.

How to search the internet effectively

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In additon, there are also three interesting websites of how to use the internet for teachers:

1) This video helps senior teachers to have a good guidance using the internet.

Teaching Senior Citizens To Use The Internet

2) On this one, it guides you how to surf, on the most use searh tool today: google.

NWO - How to use the internet (google search tips)

3) This last video teaches you how to use a proxy server for Internet Services.

Internet Basics : How to Use a Proxy Server for Internet Service

Internet Basics : How to Use a Proxy Server for Internet Service