How do new technologies create new opportunities for teaching and learning?
Technology's influence
" Technology plays an enormously influential role in the lives of the children and adolescents who will be your students. Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are "immersed in media", interacting regularly with a variety of technologies and creating a new category of experience that sociologists call an electronic childhood. "
3 Maloy. Transforming learning with new technologies.
Technology now a days is everywhere, we see it at schools, jobs, libraries, restaurants, airports..etc, you name it. Children growing in this generation need to be taught with what is around them, which is the technology's of today's world.
According to our textbook " 85 percent of 5-17 year old's use computers at school" 3 Maloy meaning that if any teacher in a classroom is having a hard time with technology because they weren't condition for it, the students may have a challenge learning the material efficiently.
Technology for students empowers them by learning new skills or improving their already acquired skills through many different representations on any device, computers,cell phones,etc.
Students benefit through the learning of technology increasing the accuracy and speed in their date collection,as well as enhancing their visualizations.
