Technology Applied

Technology Applied

Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6528-8.ch008
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Abstract

Technology is the tool that connects us with each other and the repository of knowledge, past, present, and online. Digital access appears to supersede all other forms of information and knowledge storage. For learners this opens the world to other voices anywhere and anyplace. For educators their craft knowledge demands new skills and rules linked with fluid and dynamic space. The role of teacher is navigating shifting sand with traditions melting in favour of guidance towards smart thinking and cautionary decision making. Digital imprints are akin to ancient rock carvings and early transcripts. They are indelible, an archive for eternity.
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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.


I say it just
Begins to live
That day. —Emily Dickinson (1896)

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Overview

Much information about technology and its societal impact have been described in earlier chapters. The purpose of this chapter is to signpost some strategies for using and applying innovative technologies to teaching and learning. Pedagogical processes rely on practitioner creativity and reinvention of old practices within the parameter of new mediums. A decade ago, the major concerns appeared to be internet access and connectivity. The digital divide was the major inhibiting factor for moving forward. It remains a concern but perhaps less so now. Technology advances have enabled links to be made to remote and isolated communities. Satellites, solar power, internet hotspots, and mobile phone access have reduced the cost and availability. Nevertheless, the matter of digital access should not be trivialised. Access for poor communities, including families from low socio-economic circumstances in wealthy nations are of continuing concern. Using World Bank data, a recent analysis of digital connection worldwide by Muarak, Suomi and Kantola (2020) supports this view. Against this precursor what follows is a set of notes for possible review of teaching and learning spaces within the global context of digital connectivity, including access tools and AI.

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