Har du hört talas om
Hoadley's laws of education technology?
Inte?
Ett intressant försök att fokusera på väsentligheter snarare än på varje ny liten funktion/trend inom it-teknologin.
Jag vet inte riktigt vad jag tycker om detta ännu. Jag anar att reglerna bottnar i idén om teknik som möjliga "hjälpmedel" snarare än att försöka förstå hur vi idag kommunicerar i en digitaliserad värld. Det blir lite olika fokus, tror jag. Jag försökte formulera detta i en lekfull
slide inspirerad av Michael Wesch för ett tag sedan.
Law #1: It’s not the technology. It’s what you do with it.
Since there’s not really a description about each law, I’m going to
make a best-guess here. Law #1 essentially states what I have said many
times: technology is not the solution, it’s a tool. It’s all about what
you can create, learn, and gain from technology. If you’re not learning,
growing, or enhancing your life, then put that tech down and move on!
Law #2: It’s not what the technology makes possible. It’s what technology makes easy.
Again, this is just my interpretation and ideas about the second law.
Basically, technology exists (generally) to make our lives easier. Not
like a Wall-E kind of easy (yikes!), just that technology is being used
to connect us all like never before possible, find out information we’d
normally spend hours looking up, etc. All made easier thanks to
technology. If applied to education technology, remember that technology
is designed to make learning and teaching easier. Not harder.
Law #3: Pay attention to the trends in learning, not in technology.
I try to do this with Edudemic every day. Katie and I work hard to
make sure we’re talking about technology with a focus on how it works in
education. In other words, we focus on education trends plenty but we
also focus on technology trends. We try to take it a step further though
and focus on how those technology trends apply to education. Hopefully
you learn at least something from our hard work!
Professor Chris Hoadley (@tophe on Twitter)
is a faculty member at NYU Steinhardt and director of dolcelab, the
Laboratory for Design Of Learning, Collaboration & Experience. Hear
his predictions for the future of educational technology.
