As teachers ease (Ease? What planet are you on?) their way into technology they typically go through these stages:

• Dabbling
• Doing old things in old ways
• Doing old things in new ways
• Doing new things in new ways

You may remember the SAMR model from the course 3 Technology-Enriched Teaching, which is structured along the same lines.

Your school Break Down the Walls Project team has recognised this and has decided to explore some old and some new ways of doing things with technology along the following lines:

• old things and old ways – dedicated technology venues
• old things and new ways – one technology device in the classroom
• new things and old ways – will old tactics work with mobile technologies?
• new things and new ways – what do emerging trends show us about how we may have to adapt our teaching?

Learning Objectives

Once you complete this lesson you will be able to:

• Evaluate the potential value to learning and teaching offered by different technology configurations;
• Describe learning experiences that exploit a specific technology’s advantages;
• Propose solutions to the management challenges of integrating technology in learning spaces.