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The website Quia contains games that mimic popular games such as Battleship and Jeopardy. The teacher can type the worksheet questions into templates to quickly and easily create games for students to play during class or for homework. I personally would create these playsheets in the five-minute passing period before my students came into class. They would eagerly ask me to make playsheets.

In no education system around the world where I have worked has the introduction of new technologies made teachers less vital or central to the teaching and learning process. On the contrary: As dust settles after new equipment arrives in schools (and eventually begins to work, more or less), and the initial hype around the potential for quick 'transformational change' subsides, the role of the teacher is almost always more central, indeed fundamental, than it was before the introduction of technology.

New technologies can, and no doubt eventually will, replace many of the routine administrative tasks typically handled by teachers, like taking attendance, entering marks into a grading book, etc

Machines (perhaps even "teaching machines") may also handle some of the routine, low-end cognitive tasks (e.g. posing multiple-choice questions and grading tests) that teachers currently perform

PKM Step Explanation EDC3100 Seek Find things out and keep up to date Work through the learning path. Check discussion forum posts. Check blog posts, Diigo resources etc. from people in EDC3100 and your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Sense Personalise information and use it Complete the activities in the learning path. Reflect on what you've seen and done on your blog. Doodle, and create concept maps and other artefacts that help you personalise what you've learned. Actively follow up on points that interest or confuse you. Work on assignments, prepare for Professional Experience, and build resources and processes for your teaching career. Share Exchanging resources, ideas and experiences Sharing resources and annotations via Diigo. Sharing insights and artefacts via your blog. Answering questions and making suggestions on the discussion forums. Participating in any course Facebook groups etc.

Now pretty much everything seems to be digital, from television and radio to music players, cameras, cellphones, and even books

we first convert the information into numbers (digits)

People accept digital things easily enough, often by thinking of them as electronic, computerized,

Briefing on Digital Citzenship

What we saw instead was that DigiTech enabled teachers and students to do the same things faster and more efficiently, albeit after some teachers had invested time and effort in learning how to use different technologies.

We conclude this paper by drawing on Veletsianos (2016 Veletsianos, G. (2016). Emergence and innovation in digital learning: Foundations and applications. Edmonton: AU Press, Athabasca University.) to suggest that a focus on ‘emerging technologies’ and ‘emerging practices’ in digital learning could be a useful way forward. As Veletsianos (2016 Veletsianos, G. (2016). Emergence and innovation in digital learning: Foundations and applications. Edmonton: AU Press, Athabasca University.) argues, ‘emerging technologies’ and ‘emerging practices’ transcend disciplines and, moreover, what makes practice and technology emerging is not the technology, but rather the environments in which technologies and practices operate. Emerging technologies and practices, therefore, are foregrounded in the belief that technologies and practices shape and are shaped by sociocultural environments.

As Veletsianos (2016 Veletsianos, G. (2016). Emergence and innovation in digital learning: Foundations and applications. Edmonton: AU Press, Athabasca University.) argues, DigiTech is not yet established in education.