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How does the EdTech affect humanity?
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How will this new technology affect Meaningful Contact in your institution?
It eases the work of teachers, clarifies and unifies the restrictions for the students in the context of evidence submission. This may cause a reduction in the overall contact hours of student and teacher as feedback can now be given digitally. However, if Digital Portfolio is applied systemically the contact hours could actually be improved in quality. The teacher-student meetings may be more focused on the evidence and the proof submitted and reviewed prior to the meeting.
The following sub-questions will help you answer the main question!
Does encouraging meaningful contact currently in our educational institution require a technological device or application?
Are teachers and students understanding the goal of the curriculum?
Is this tool making this goal more clear to both parties?
What interactions between students and teachers have been disincentivized?
Is there a need for closer teacher-student interactions that are lighthearted?
What kind of curriculum is this tool not well-suited for? Will the tool separate students from their teachers digitally?
Can the tool be re-appropriated to bring them closer together?
How will this new technology affect Social Cohesion in your institution?
Student may share their portfolio not only with teachers but with external stakeholders and most importantly - each other. This should lead to open discussions and comparison of individual implementation. However, to facilitate the process, it is vital to set clear expectations and explain to the students how to use the Digital Portfolio correctly. Each educational institution has a slightly different way of applying Digital Portfolio in their curriculum. But it should be clearly communicated with the students and there is also room to encourage group work and collaboration using the Portfolio.
The following sub-questions will help you answer the main question!
Does encouraging social cohesion currently in our educational institution require a technological device or application?
Do instructors understand how to work with both the EdTech tool in a social and technical way?
How might current socially driven educational practices suffer or become worse from the implementation of this tool.
Is it viable to increase screen-time in the classroom or lecture currently in a way that incentivizes socializing?
Is this technical solution needed to increase socializing effectively? How can our instructors obtain the right competencies
to use these edtech tools for social cohesion?
How will this new technology affect Well-Being in your institution?
The Digital Portfolio has tools that facilitate self reflection and is integrated with other learning tools and applications. If teachers set the premise to practice self-reflection, students have the right means. Moreover, the competition among students is made more fair, making the students use the same platform to deliver their work. In addition, evaluating the portfolio is also easier for the teachers compared to other alternatives. When sharing the portfolio (showcasing), a digital copy is created and it can no longer be edited, the student and the teacher have clear identification of what they are viewing/sharing.
The following sub-questions will help you answer the main question!
In what ways can this tool enable students to be self-reflective?
How can instructors shape this interaction?
Are all the features within the EdTech tool needed?
Can some be removed for the benefit of our students’ well-being?
Does the tool have any pedagogical or didactic research behind its features or methods?
In what ways is competition between learners impacted by this application?
Is the impact beneficial to the learning environment?
Does this tool clearly communicate to students and teachers what data is monitored and recorded?
Now that you have thought hard about the impact of this educational technology (by filling out the questions above), what improvements would you like to make to the technology? List them below.
I would encourage to set up workshops for students at the beginning of each semester where the teachers explain how to use the tool as per course's expectations. In addition, it may be beneficial to have a check-in session one or twice a course where students showcase their work to teachers and each other. This way, more social cohesion and human contact would be encouraged.
If you think about how this new technology will affect Meaningful Contact in your institution? If you think about how this new technology will affect Social Cohesion in your institution? If you think about how this new technology will affect Well-Being in your institution?
If you think about all that, what improvements would you make? In technology? In context? In use? The answers on questions 1-3 help you to gain insight into the impact of this technology on society. The goal of these answers is not to provide you with a 'go' or ' no go' - decision. The goal is to make you think HOW you can improve the impact of this technology. This can be by making changes to the technology or making changes to the context in which the technology is used, or making changes in the way the technology is used.
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