- This difference between the two refers to who dictates the technology use. "Technologies for learning support the interests of the technology designers." Whoever designs the lesson decides what technologies are going to be used to help reach goals. Technologies for learners allow the audience of the lesson to choose which technologies will best help to achieve success. "Technologies for learning are instructor-directed; technologies for learners are client-directed. "
In what ways does the current use of technology in school create both equitable and inequitable access for students?
- Technology helps to create equitable access to curriculum because it helps to adapt content to the students needs. It helps to individualize assignment and content to help cater to students strengths and weaknesses. It also can help make a student's weakness insignificant because it provides extra supports. While technology differentiate content for students, in other aspects it standardizes it. Every child is given the same materials for a lesson and the same output of information. For example, if a child was to go through a software program, it is not going to change from one child to the next and they are going to see the same information. Technology also typically incorpoartes a say, see, do technique. This helps to meet more students multiple intelligences helping to create equitable access.
- Technology can also provide inequitable access to core content. Many times technology is accessible through the funds of money. This creates a divide in socioeconomic environments. The well off get extra supports and modern technology, while the poor communities do not have the resources to use to help their children. Also, some students use technologies because they have disabilities or an educational weakness. These technologies are used to help make them more comparable in academics to their typical peers. If the same technologies are provides to all students, this may result in them still being perceived as behind others.
- I would educated teachers on the vast technological resources available to them.Teacher need to know what is out there for them to use in order for them to transpire that knowledge to their students.
- Instead of providing the well-off communities with new updated technologies, take funds to buy poor communities to have even some sort of technological resources.
- I would give students a say in the technologies that they are able to use instead of directing them to the ones the teacher wants them to. By implementing choice in the classroom, more students will be able to advocate for their needs.
- I would also increase the frequency of technology use in the classroom.
Source:
https://vista.nau.edu/webct/urw/lc41830614054071.tp44562082975071/RelativeResourceManager/Template/develop/reflection/critanalyses/diverselearners/Halverson_Smith_How_New_Technologies.pdf
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