Technology Facilitated Learning Processes
Multiple Choice
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In this module you have learned about how technology can support three learning processes. These include information gathering, communication and reporting. In your opinion, are there additional processes that are a part of the learning process that technology can facilitate? If you can think of several ideas, choose one and support your idea with examples from your own experience.
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Technology can support other learning processes. These include learning management and learning support in the form of electronic performance enhancement systems. Technology can also support the process of working with information. Working with information includes the acts of storing, sorting, manipulating and combining information, all of which support the act of learning. Students can use software like databases and spreadsheets to store and sort information. Spreadsheets are very useful for manipulating numeric information. Spreadsheets are also good for combining information in order to gain a new perspective on that information.
Working with information is an essential part of the learning process. Information in isolation is of limited use to anyone. Learners need to work with information in order to construct knowledge. Following are examples of how learners might use technology to work with information.
Students in my class could create a database template that everyone in the class could use to record information about the books they read. This database file would include fields for information such as author, publisher, title, genre, synopsis, metaphor use, and other typical literature study topics. Periodically we could generate reports for each student listing all books they had entered into the database. The class could also generate reports looking for author interest strands, which students read and enjoy books in the same genre, and examinations of the use of metaphor in a particular genre. In this way the usual act of making a book report can be extended to give students new ways to connect information about their reading to information generated by others in the class.
Technology Enriched Learning
