The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."
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The resources included videos for those who learned by more kinesthetic and auditory modalities, written newspaper reports for those who learned best by visual modalities, and even interactive websites for those with a more tactile and kinesthetic learning style.
For example
Instead of showing the video in class, you might have them watch it on YouTube as a homework assignment.
using technology to enhance education doesn't mean that we should move classes totally online. Students need face-to-face social interaction, especially in the primary and middle school grades.
The point is not to "teach with technology" but to use technology to convey content more powerfully and efficiently.
Baby Boomers, in general, prefer face-to-face or telephone communication
seem to embrace both cell phones and e-mail, with a bit of instant messaging thrown in.
Gen Xers
Net Generation
social networks like Facebook, instant messages, Skype, and texting.
iGeneration, a phone is not a phone. It is a portable computer
born between about 1925 and 1946 are often called the Traditional or Silent generation
Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, they are characterized by a belief in common goals and respect for authority.
Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, tends to be optimistic, idealistic, and communicative and to value education and consumer goods.
born between 1965 and 1979, were defined by Douglas Coupland (1991) as Generation X
not as easily categorized.
1980s and the birth of the World Wide Web
Generation Y, simply meaning the generation after X.
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