The classroom itself is technology to start with. Writing and printed text are also technology, but hidden for us as we have become used to it. We call only that ”technology” which is new to us and not yet fully integrated and problemfree. The digital technology now used in classrooms and in e-, online and distance learning is arguably yet of the older kind of media and communication technology that decreases friction of information mostly: teaching material becomes accessible anytime anywhere to a low cost, communication is potentially global and instant.

That in itself erodes classroom walls, as also irrelevant information leaks through and often sabotages the ambitions of the teacher. The classroom does not work as before anyway, if students have personal Internet-connected devices - or by the fact that they they fell they lack them.

More genuinely digital technology, which processes information in algorithms and computer programmes in machines, are just now coming into teaching and learning in practices as learning analytics, adaptive learning, automatic essay grading, etc. That will mean real change.

We are experimenting with VR usage in the classroom. I think it sparks imagination.

The classroom itself is technology to start with. Writing and printed text are also technology, but hidden for us as we have become used to it. We call only that ”technology” which is new to us and not yet fully integrated and problemfree. The digital technology now used in classrooms and in e-, online and distance learning is arguably yet of the older kind of media and communication technology that decreases friction of information mostly: teaching material becomes accessible anytime anywhere to a low cost, communication is potentially global and instant.

That in itself erodes classroom walls, as also irrelevant information leaks through and often sabotages the ambitions of the teacher. The classroom does not work as before anyway, if students have personal Internet-connected devices - or by the fact that they they fell they lack them.

More genuinely digital technology, which processes information in algorithms and computer programmes in machines, are just now coming into teaching and learning in practices as learning analytics, adaptive learning, automatic essay grading, etc. That will mean real change.

Dear professor Norberg, it's really refreshment to read you answers. Namely, today we often think just about "new" things in education, without any idea tbat they aren't such an innovations as we think. I mean, it's really useful to think about innovations in the discourse of their past, of their development on their roots etc. That"s thr only way to keep educational sciences in the system of knowledge, connected with their past and ready for the future.

Thanks for the comment, Dijana. Yes, I think we should sometimes apply also longer perspectives, and not be so seducted by tech news for the day. Not everything is as revolutionary as people think, but education is changing anyway.

And no, I am no professor, just a PhD and researcher.

Yes, everything is changing in contemporary society, and education is important part of it. But, I intended to say - I really don't like when we talk about e.g. project method or about problem based learning as they are new things.

This is a great discussion thread! Thank you for the further prodding. I agree that the new is rather old and that we need new previously never concocted Ideas :-)

The endless permutations reside in the unknown.

Hello

Today every space is TIC.

e-learning or e-teaching

Also depends of the age os students

Ingrid

Technology can be great and bad, it is just a tool, so depending on how you use it, sometimes creatively then of course it can enhance the teaching. Same as a whiteboard and anything else. The problem is when people use technology only for technology sake.

Bridget O'Leary -- if I have to hear about ONE more app to help me organize and "curate" my links. . . . . strange what passes for EdTech these days.