The integration of laptops in classrooms represents a shift towards ubiquitous learning, characterized by several key moves: blurring traditional educational boundaries, recognizing learner differences, and fostering collaborative knowledge cultures.
the teacher still plays an important role in developing the social behavior of children
the teacher to apply "wisdom"
teachers must still exercise true leadership in the classroom.
Tool
Helps you to learn
Helps you to produce
Forces you to think criticall
Expands your horizons by exposing you to new concepts and informatio
Challenges your assumption
Serves as a sounding board for your ideas
Digital Teaching Assistants
This term may evoke concern because it bestows a certain "human" dimension to computers. The rap on technology today is that it is dehumanizing society by limiting social interaction.
It is also an accurate description of what computers do for children within and outside the classroom
The Student Laptop Computer in Classrooms
Seven moves which are characteristic of ubiquitous learning
Move 7
Build collaborative knowledge cultures
Move 6
Connect one’s own thinking into the social mind of distributed cognition
Move 5
Develop conceptualising capacities
Move 4
Broaden the range and mix of representational modes
Move 3
Recognise learner differences and use them as a productive resource
Move 2
To shift the balance of agency
Move 1
blur the traditional institutional, spatial and temporal boundaries of education
the pervasive presence of computers in
our lives
a new educational paradigm made possible in part by the affordances of
digital media.
affordance
means you can
do some things easily now, and you are more inclined to do these things than you were before simply
because they are easier