Best Practices for Technology in Education

Best practices for Technology in Education

As the time changes in our lives, so does the life in the classrooms. I can still remember the old times where the teachers used to plan their lesson from beginning to end. Their expectations were minimum for children to have previous knowledge. However, in this new era things have change. Now the children and teachers are in the same route for learning.

The document The best practices in Education technology  Best Practices for Education    talks about the different trends that are taking place in

many of the classrooms where they have an integration of technology. One that caught my eye was the relationships between teachers, students and parents are working together as co learners of the new learning approaches in the schools also giving the opportunity to the students to be mentors for other students, parents or the teacher. 

As the times had changed, many of the times, professor are having a hard time with leaving the control that they used to have. Now, the students are also involved in the learning process and have the ability to advance the information that they are interested or required to know. Students are more proactive in their learning as Peter West illustrates in his article Blended Learning and the paradox of the experienced teacher

how much things have change in the last decades that we need to be informed and educated about the best methods for teaching. This method follows the frame from TPACK. 

In another article posted in the Sun Associates website Best Practices in Technology Integration illustrates the combination on how the right pedagogy, with the content and technology component can enrich a curriculum making it more meaningful and receptive for students where as for professors technology in their teaching can help them to enrich their lessons.  Everything change around us, therefore it is time to get ready for the new era.