Week 20: Learning to Live With or Without Technology
LOC 20: Persuade or justify a place for technology in adult learning
Learning Objectives
By the end of this week, participants will be able to:
- 20.1 – Access and recommend what digital technology is appropriate for adult students
- 20.2 – Model the digital skills that adult students can use
- 20.3 – Outline and teach which digital skills are important to adult students
Materials Needed This Week
Here is a list of materials you will need while completing this week:
- Writing utensils
- Highlighters
- Ruler
- Sticky Notes
- Dictionary/Glossary booklet
- Handwritten Wisdom Journal
- Blank paper
- Computer/laptop
Key Terms
Add these key terms to your personal dictionary/glossary booklet. These important key terms will be used throughout module 4, week 20. If there is no link attached to the definition, be assured that the term will be defined throughout the week. We encourage you to further investigate the definitions in order to expand your knowledge.
- Digital technology
- Connected
- 21st Century Learner
“21st Century Education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be just defined by 1:1 technology programs or tech-intensive projects. 21st Century Education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching – a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers.”
— Karl Fisch
Questions to Consider
1. Does lack of digital technology skills make you less connected socially?
2. Why is having a bit of skill to your advantage when teaching digital literacy?
3. How can we embrace technology when we have no access to it?
“The real power of interactive technologies is that they let us learn in ways that aren’t otherwise possible or practical.” —David Lassner
Review
“Replacing paper with a PC screen doesn’t change the need for clear, precise communication.” — Kenneth Roman; Joel Raphaelson
Consult the following resources and interpret the necessary information with your preferred method of note-taking.
How Is Technology Used to Help Communication? (article)
Technology In Our Life Today And How It Has Changed (article)
Identify
Consult the following resources below to locate the important information on this week’s topic.
16 Advantages of Digital Technology (article)
Video: What is Digital Literacy? | Cultivating Digital Literacy (5:25)
Click here for a video transcript in .docx format: Video Transcript
Fill in or print off the PDF template provided below to extract some pros and cons for “why you should” or “why your adult students should” become digitally literate.
Develop
Consult the following resources below to locate the important information on this week’s topic.
eLearning Industry: 17 Tips To Motivate Adult Learners (article)
Pew Research Center: 2. The negatives of digital life (article)
Apply
Activity
Take a moment to reflect on these questions:
Take Away Toolbox
Reflect
Handwritten Wisdom Journal
A Wisdom Writing Journal is a way to notarize your learning journey throughout the weeks during all the modules in this course. It will also permit you to demonstrate that no technology is required to focus on reflective practice. There is a variety of writing journal tools that you can choose from that require technology, however, throughout this course, it is important that you experience and model a no-technology required method in order to relate to those students that have limited or no access to technology.
Take advantage of jotting down your thoughts, frustrations, joys, aha moments, and new information acquired as the result of your hard work. Critical reflection time required at the end of each week will be a culminating result of YOUR own personal Learning Narrative.
Using your own personal writing journal, write an entry for this week’s prompts:
- Are you a 21st-century learner/teacher? Yes or no? Explain why.
- How will technology influence your teaching practice?
- How will a lack of technology influence your teaching practice?
- Based on the information that you have learned this week, how would you review, identify, develop, apply, and reflect?
Note: Be sure to justify each of your answers or comments.
Optional Resources
These resources are not required to be viewed; however, they give further information on this week’s topics:
- 7 Ways to Teach Digital Literacy (article)
- 6 Ways Technology Has Changed Communication Forever (article)
Activity
Congratulations on completing Module 4: Digital Literacy Coaching.
Here is a word search activity to help refresh your memory on some of the key terms used and learned throughout module 4.
