What probably won't be on that list is to make a mistake -- in fact many. But it should be.
if we believe that the process of learning -- which inevitably must include the process of erring -- is just as, or more, important than getting to the correct answer.
Except halfway through the piece, Randy Yerrick — an associate dean of educational tech at the University of Buffalo — makes the take-away point: The chief reason to use high-tech tools is when you want to teach in a fashion that has “no good digital equivalent”. Or to put it another way, only use computers in situations where you want to do something that can’t be done without them.
3) Dialogue. Computers also let teachers and students have dialogues that aren’t easily possible in regular face-to-face formats.
What can computers teach that textbooks and paper can’t?
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