1. Theories of Learning
1.1. 1. Connectivism
1.1.1. Learning theory for the digital age
1.1.2. Learning resides outside the person in non-human appliances, continual learning requires nurturing and maintaining connections, and currency.
1.1.3. Teachers can teach students how to use various technological resources in order to help them learn. For example, show them how twitter can be used as a learning resource tool for sharing ideas.
1.2. 2. Constructivism
1.2.1. The learner creates knowledge and create meaning to understand experiences.
1.2.2. Active learning, learners bring their own perspective, collaborative learning
1.2.3. Teachers can provide complex problems and facilitate students to find the answer. Use active learning and encourage hands on activities, experiments and allow them to question themselves and their strategies.
1.3. 3. Cognitive load
1.3.1. Information processing theory
1.3.2. Three types of memory: Sensory memory (what you take in), Short Term Memory, Long term Memory [if your brain deems what is in your short term memory (working memory), it is forever stored into long term memory creating a schema].
1.3.3. Teachers must be careful not to over stimulate which prevents students from learning. To prevent overstimulation, teachers should avoid teaching too much too fast. For example, teaching using the chunking method and repetition.
2. Theories of Technology
2.1. Media Ecology
2.1.1. The study of media as environments and how it affects humans understandings, feelings and values. Includes technologies, codes, art, symbols.
2.1.2. The media is a large part of society and infused into much of our daily lives. Media ties the world together. The media influences and structures what we are permitted and not permitted to do.
2.1.3. The media environment changes frequently, which in turn, modifies how we do things. Teachers can deliver content to communicate with their students in a wide variety of ways, and it is important for teachers to learn how to do this so students have the opportunity to learn something in different media environments. For example, books can also be accessed on an iPad or a kindle.
2.2. Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)
2.2.1. Human action shapes technology.
2.2.2. A way of classifying a technology as successful or unsuccessful based on whether it is socially supported.
2.2.3. Teachers will have to learn how to use technology in a way that is supported by the students. A teacher will also have to be open to change as technological methods that are preferred by students changes over time. For example, teachers may have to learn to upload notes rather than hand them out because students prefer electronic copies.
2.3. TPACK
2.3.1. Technnological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
2.3.2. 21ct century learning where content and the science of teaching is influenced by technology
2.3.3. Technology (TK)+ pedagogy (PK) + content (CK). TPACK goes beyond what these three have in isolation and when the three intersect there exists subject matter and teaching influenced by the ability to use technical knowledge and software
2.4. Philosophy of Technology
2.4.1. This is a teacher's personal philosophy on how they view technology's role in education. A teacher will include their beliefs on how technology can play a role in how their students learn adn how they can teach.
2.4.2. Example: My belief as a teacher is to incorporate a technology as a tool for my students to use to collaborate with each other and others and equip them with the skills to use technology confidently in order to use it as a life skill. I also plan to use a variety of technology to accompany my lectures as i teach in order to deliver content in a diverse and creative way (ie; power point, videos)