Summary of Unit 3

This unit described the range of technologies that are available in today's classrooms and examined the following:

  1. The supplementary role that technology plays in constructing and delivering.
  2. The range of technology tools and their relevance in designing instruction for delivery in the classrooms.
  3. 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.
  4. The value and convenience using of multimedia in the classroom.
  5. The digital tools, especially audio visual tools in the market and their usability in teaching and producing multimedia learning materials.
  6. The role and value of social networks and media to support teachers, teaching, learners and learning.
  7. The history and development of social networks and their role for educators.
  8. 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.
  9. Considered strategies that are enabling in using social networks and media for purposes of teaching and learning.

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