Overview for Teachers
With the social appropriation of computers, the creation of the Internet, the advent of Web 2.0, and now the beginnings of the Semantic Web, the range of learning technologies available to the teacher is bewildering. These innovations are enabling exciting classroom activities to be developed at all levels of kids education (elementary to grade 12), and especially in those all-important areas of math (especially middle school math), reading comprehension and writing.
These technologies are also revolutionising educational programs at university and college level by opening ways for courses, seminars, discussion forums and other approaches to learning to be delivered electronically. This enables distance courses to be delivered using innovative ways to interact with instructors and other students.
The following are just a few of the learning technologies in use:
* Electronic Portfolios (ePortfolios)
* MP3 Players
* Web sites
* Web 2.0 tools
* Discussion and bulletin boards
* e-mail
* Social Media (Blogs, Chats, Wikis, Podcasts, etc)
* Social networking
* Educational animation, simulation, and games
* Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Click here to learn more about different technologies.
Sugata Mitra
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