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<p>Good article. Are we automating or informating? Or perhaps we are just retrofitting new technology onto old practices? Worth a read.
Regards Roland</p><p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #eee; padding-left: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><p><a class="diigoAnnotatedLink" href="http://diigo.com/0gtjt" title="Do iPads Have the Capacity to Change Education? - iPads in Education">Do iPads Have the Capacity to Change Education? - iPads in Education</a></p><ul></ul><ul><li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">In the Automating stage, new tools are used to reinforce existing practices and processes. We see this stamped all over the educational space. Smartboard use that reinforces existing frontal teaching methods. Digital content replacing paper distribution. Technology that speeds the efficiency of existing standardized testing. The essence and character of traditional educational practices however hasn't changed. It's still "business as usual" in most American schools. <ul></ul></li>
<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">"Informating" as Professor Zuboff calls it - involves the re-imagination of processes using the new technologies. Instead of focusing on making existing processes more efficient, we start to look at entirely new methods and goals. We are in the infancy of that stage in education. In the Informating phase, educators reevaluate goals, visions and processes: <ul></ul></li>
<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">Professional development becomes far more valuable when it searches beyond the simple nuts and bolts of technical use and instead encourages teachers to disrupt the traditional flow of education - to dabble, experiment and re-imagine how that technology can be used to create new educational horizons. <ul></ul></li>
<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">A skilled teacher knows that technology implementations won't have any impact as long as you try and retrofit them on to outdated teaching methods. That teacher will instead try to utilize the technology to forge creative new educational paths for his/her students. <ul></ul></li></ul></blockquote>
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