a) In what way (s) does Digital Nation depict digital technology as beneficial to teaching and learning?
b) In what way (s) does Digital Nation depict digital technology as detrimental to teaching and learning?
(For both of the above questions, cite or refer to, a specific example or examples to support your conclusions.)
c) What are your overall conclusions regarding digital technology and its impact on teaching and learning?
A) Digital Nation showed that teaching with technology and gfames can be beneficial. It worked to help get a school out of chaos and ruin. Some kids learn better by doing than just hearing. Games and technology can help kids do things and take part in their own education. Instead of sitting along for the ride, they can help drive the car.
B) Sitting in class, no matter what class, I see people distracting themselves from learning with their cell phones or labtops. Social networking, games and websites are the first things that come to mind. I try to distract myself as little as possible, but I have been guilty from time to time. In my experience, I'd agree with how the researchers said multitasking doesn't go nearly as well as you think it is. I've been asked by people who were on facebook what the teacher said but I was reading about MC Escher, so I missed out too. It happens and there seems to be little teachers can do. You can ban computers in the classroom, but so many phones have internet access, so the ban sometimes acheives very little.
C)Going into art education, I see technology having less of a role in the classroom compared to some other classes. If you have to paint something with watercolors, there is little a computer can help you with where experiencing it yourself couldn't do better. There is art made by computers, and that would have a lot of technology, but some things are better done by hand. Art, seems to me, to be fighting the invasion of technology as best as it can but resistance if futile. There will always be some things in art that technology cannot take away but there are things concerning digital art that the computer hass its place.
TDP
