The instruments and the strategies engaging students in common tasks such that each subject depends on and is accountable to each other. The instruments supporting the collaboration are both hardware (LAN, Internet, etc.) and software (e-learning platform, software for synchronous and asynchronous communication, etc.). The learning activities are usually coordinated from teachers and tutors.
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The Implementation of Practices with ICT as a New Teaching-Learning Paradigm
Antonio Cartelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch055
Abstract
Information and communication technology (ICT) is today influencing many aspects of our lives from administration to economy from culture and entertainment to work, and so forth. Education is receiving from IT and ICT a great deal of suggestions just from their first beginning. It is well known, for example, that Taylor (1980) outlined three metaphors for computer use in education: tutor, tool, and tutee: first, tutor (by looking at the possible use of computer to support or to substitute teachers); second, tool (by using suitable editing tools to support students’ autonomous learning); and last, tutee (by adopting special programming languages for the development of metacognitive skills in students’ minds). The reader will easily recognize in the above metaphors many ideas belonging respectively to the behaviorist, the cognitivist, and the constructivist psycho-pedagogical paradigms.