Impact of ICT Reflections

Impact of ICT Reflections

The text emphasises the collaborative potential of ICT such as classes taking digital photographs or videos to record event. I think this is actually one of the most interesting areas of developing technologies, the way they draw people closer together, be it through networking, gaming or in this example the shared experience of recording.

The paper picks up on the idea I had about ICT and personalised learning. It presents quite a thought provoking debate suggesting that it could change the whole pupil teacher relationship as children gain more freedom and autonomy. I guess the idea here is that children will learn to educate themselves through accessing particular resources. However teaching is not about control or dictating for authority’s sake it is about finding what is best for the needs of each individual and I do think ICT is a great tool with which to do so. Surely it can only be a good thing is we can equip children with the knowledge of how to become autonomous learners.

Learning styles are picked up upon in the article as being a growing area in the research of ICT theory. It states that learning styles can ‘provide a pointer to the probability of a tendency towards one or another kind of learning experience or instructional style’ but emphasises that it should not be used to determine who will be suited to a particular discipline. This seems very true, however as I previously mentioned, I would go so far as to say that whilst many children will be able to interact and connect with ICT on some levels, It could be perceived as the new multiple intelligence itself as some children will have a natural disposition to it and will excel in that area. Afterall if some people are believed to have a persuasion towards the natural world and its cycles and patterns; then surely others could have an affinity with what is man made and at a pace dictated by humans, and has its own patterns and encoded language.