Practitioners' skills and knowledge have developed effectively due to the arising of technology within education. Technology has allowed practitioners to communicate with children and young people; parents and legal guardians; and co-workers (Ager, 2003). Practitioners within education have received training due to the new technology, allowing them to acknowledge the equipment and develop skills (International Society for Technology, 2002). Although, this may be time consuming as technology is constantly changing and some training is not available to practitioners (Jimoyiannis, 2007). Technology allows teachers to easily prepare for subject classes, this may be reused and updated. Educators are encouraging technology within the classroom, this may encourage children to become addictive or get easily distracted when using technology (Mackay et al, 1991). Also, technology is expensive to maintain and is not always reliable within pedagogical teaching (About, 2001).
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About, Chris. (2001). ICT: Changing Education. London: RoutledgeFalmer. p. 32.
Ager, R. (2003). Information and Communication Technology in Primary Schools. Children or Computers in Control? (2nd ed.). London: David Fulton.
International Society for Technology in Education Corporate Author. (2002). National educational technology standards for teachers : Preparing teachers to use technology.
Jimoyiannis, Athanassios, & Komis, Vassilis. (2007). Examining Teachers' Beliefs about ICT in Education: Implications of a Teacher Preparation Programme. Teacher Development, 11(2), pp. 149-173.
Mackay, H., Young, M., & Beynon, J. (1991). Understanding technology in education. London: Falmer.
I agree that technology provides teachers with the necessary and up to date equipment to develop and support the delivery of their lessons. This is especially beneficial to children with both Special Educational and Additional Learning Needs (Glaeser, 2016) .However; the financial cost of new and developing technology can be extremely costly and therefore detrimental to the schools funding cost (Rohaan et al, 2012). The implication of this may result in financial cut backs in other aspects of education. Do you think it’s beneficial for schools to invest in developing technology?
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Glaeser, L. (2016). Breaking through: Using educational technology for children with special needs. Education and Information Technologies, Volume 21(5), pp1243-1247.
Rohaan, Ellen J., Taconis, Ruurd, & Jochems, Wim M. G. (2012). Analysing Teacher Knowledge for Technology Education in Primary Schools. International Journal of Technology and Design Education,22(3), 271-280
I believe that schools investing in technology is beneficial due to the future of education developing with society. New and advancing technology within a classroom allows practitioners to encourage different forms of communication and interaction, children are learning effectively due to technology being updated (Cauley et a, 2009). However, schools investing within new technology is costly. Practitioners may not use technology regularly as previously teaching method is preferred by students (Rohaan et al, 2012).
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Cauley, F., Aiken, K., & Whitney, L. (2009). Technologies Across Our Curriculum: A Study of Technology Integration in the Classroom. Journal of Education for Business, Volume 85(2), pp. 114-118.
Rohaan, Ellen J., Taconis, Ruurd, & Jochems, Wim M. G. (2012). Analysing Teacher Knowledge for Technology Education in Primary Schools. International Journal of Technology and Design Education,22(3), pp. 271-280
I agree with technology improving education, however as technology improves, I believe that it transformed the role of a teacher because it becomes more challenging for them to adapt it in education. (Britland M 2017) Educators want to strive for young children to engage with subjects beyond a superficial level, they want children to be active learners hence why technology provides many different ways to be used in the classroom to engage and facilitate exciting and interesting lessons.
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Britland, M. (2015). technology in education , teachers. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jun/18/technology [Accessed 17 Jan. 2017].
Halstead, J. and McLaughlin, T. (1999). Education in morality. 1st ed. London: Routledge.
I strongly agree – technology allows practitioners to develop their teaching pedagogy to fit the students preferred learning in the 21st century, engaging students in the classroom whilst using the latest technology and apps (Younie, 2014) . Practitioners are also learning to communicate in different forms when using technology by their students and peers (Elston, 2006). Technology transforms an educators classroom to an interesting environment.
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Elston, C. (2006). Using ICT in the primary school. London: Paul Chapman.
Younie, S., Leask, M., & Burden, K. (2014). Teaching and Learning with ICT in the Primary School (2nd ed.). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.