ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf
ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf
ESHA Magazine April 2012.pdf
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MOBILE DEVICES: THE LEARNING DISCONNECT<br />
Digital technologies are transforming the way we can facilitate learning<br />
for our students. To our students these technologies are trivial. For<br />
our students and for many adults the boundaries between the internet<br />
and life are so porous as to be meaningless. People reach for the<br />
internet using whatever device makes sense to them at that moment.<br />
As educators we need to embrace the multitude of opportunities<br />
now available to us to empower our pedagogy with digital technology<br />
to enable our classrooms to be boundless. Advocates also say<br />
that the availability of technology that can call up the knowledge of<br />
Digital technologies<br />
are transforming the<br />
way we can facilitate<br />
learning for our<br />
students.<br />
the world’s best<br />
thinkers with the<br />
click of a mouse,<br />
that can graph<br />
in two seconds<br />
what once took<br />
hours, and that<br />
can put scientifi c<br />
instrumentation<br />
in a pocket-sized<br />
computer shows<br />
that the shift isn’t coming--- it has already happened. IT IS NOW.<br />
If we are capable of leaving our comfort zone and focus upon<br />
developing and creating new strategies for learning, we will redefine<br />
ourselves as potent 21st century educators. The questions we need<br />
to ask of ourselves are: Are we willing to change? To risk change<br />
to meet the needs of the students we serve? To accept that we are<br />
Learners fi rst and Educators second. Because when we think we<br />
know it all, that’s when the serious learning begins.<br />
It’s time for us to POWER UP! ■<br />
<strong>ESHA</strong> MAGAZINE APRIL 2012 55