Lesson 3

Roles of Technology in Learning

According to Constructivist Perspective of Jonassen, et, al 1999

   1.    Technology as tools to support knowledge construction;

    ·         For representing learner’s ideas, understandings and beliefs.

   ·         For producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases by learners.

2.    Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing;

·         For accessing needed information.

·         For comparing perspectives, beliefs and world views.

3.    Technology as a context to support learning-by-doing;

·         For representing and stimulating meaningful real-world problems, situations and contexts.

·         For representing beliefs, perspectives, arguments and stories of others.

·         For defining a safe, controllable problem, space for student thinking.

4.    Technology as a social media to support learning-by-conversing;

·         For collaborating with others.

·         Or discussing, arguing and building consensus among members of a community.

·         For supporting discourse among knowledge-building communities.

5.    Technology as intellectual partner(Jonassen 1996) to support learning by reflecting;

·         For helping learners to articulate and represent what they know.

·         For reflecting on what they have learned and how they came to know it.

·         For supporting learners internal negotiations and meaning making.

·         For constructing personal representations of meaning.

·         For supporting mindful thinking.