EED502/05 ICT in Education
Summary of Unit 3
This unit described the range of technologies that are available in today's classrooms and examined the following:
- The supplementary role that technology plays in constructing and delivering.
- The range of technology tools and their relevance in designing instruction for delivery in the classrooms.
- The need to select the media appropriate to the content to be delivered, learning objectives to be achieved, the context of the lesson, and the learning styles of students.
- The value and convenience using of multimedia in the classroom.
- The digital tools, especially audio visual tools in the market and their usability in teaching and producing multimedia learning materials.
- The role and value of social networks and media to support teachers, teaching, learners and learning.
- The history and development of social networks and their role for educators.
- The manner in which teachers and students have started using social media to create content through blogs and micro-blogs by sharing experience, information and insights.
- Considered strategies that are enabling in using social networks and media for purposes of teaching and learning.
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