Today even the most hard-core technology enthusiasts have moved on from those simplistic ideas, and advocate much more mindful decision-making about how to use technology in teaching. There was a time when advocates naïvely believed that technology would turbocharge learning by its mere presence in class and that “digital natives” craved it in every corner of their lives. Illustration by James Yang for The Chronicle It’s for anyone who is in the process of creating a new course or redesigning an old one and needs advice on which technologies to use, how to use them, and why. Choosing the right tech tools for your teaching means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payoffs, and staying laser-focused on your course goals - and that is what this guide aims to help you do. Using technology well means being selective. ![]() It takes college students one hot minute to figure out when technology is just a useless embellishment, and they’re unforgiving when you have no good answer for why you chose to go with digital materials when pencil and paper would have sufficed. In technology, as in so many things, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Furthermore, many of the earliest technologies - think: web pages and blogs - are now something truly anyone can use, no matter your level of technical expertise.Īnd therein lies the problem: With such a wealth of options, how do you choose what will work best in your classroom? Today, however, you have your pick of hundreds of products, custom-built for education or even for specific disciplines. (Have I told you about the web pages I put up for my class back in ’95?) Back in the day, those of us in the club had to kludge together solutions using tech that wasn’t made for teaching. Or maybe you’re a member of Club Early Adopter yourself? No doubt you’ve heard them reminiscing about all the stuff they started using before anyone else - class Facebook pages, Twitter hashtags, in-class polling. Maybe you have colleagues who are the first to leap onto technology trends.
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