How Education Fails Technology (And What to Do About It)
Dr. Mark Weston, national education strategist for Dell, Inc., wrote this article to show how education has not used technology effectively to “get all children learning at levels beyond their respective aptitudes” and what can be done to make progress with our current circumstances.
He begins the article with a reference to Benjamin Bloom’s research 30 years ago which identified certain classroom practices such as feedback, cues, explanations, and classroom participation that each have a positive effect on student achievement. He also cites the research of Marzano and Hattie, which reinforce Bloom’s studies. Despite the work in this field, we have not been able to impact all students.
Weston blames “teacher work-load conundrum” for this failure and believes that the only way to maximize results is through the effective use of technology. Unfortunately, the “technology has exerted little overall effect in educational settings and the teaching and learning in them,” he feels. The author continues by suggesting what we as educators can do to impact the way that technologies are used.
http://edtechdigest.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/how-education-fails-technology-and-what-to-do-about-it/
We Are Natural Born Multi-Taskers
The debate continues about today's students. Are they "multi-taskers" or just great "task switchers"? Most researchers say the brain isn't capable of multi-tasking, but new research is making a different claim.
". . . . These are the questions Julio Martinez-Trujillo, a cognitive neurophysiology specialist from McGill University, and his team set out to answer in a new study on multifocal attention. They found that, for the first time, there's evidence that we can pay attention to more than one thing at a time."
This is interesting research, and we can be sure the debate will continue . . . .
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140459.htm#.TzGY9E8kSsN.email
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