Thursday, January 24, 2008

Type I and type II Technology

Type one and type two technology have different characteristics. Type one technology is technology that is not used to teach someone but only to reinforce something that has already been learned. Type two technology is technology used to actually help teach someone a topic. It is an abstract way of teaching a subject.
Type one technology:
One example of this type would be a power point presentation which uses technology but does not really teach people in a way that is creative and easy to learn. Another is a computer generated essay because it is really just a test of what has already been learned. Your not learning anything new. A third example would be electronic tests because you do not need a computer to do that.

Type two technology:
One example would be a webquest because you are using technology to learn and are learning in a unique way. Another example would be imovie to teach an interesting lesson and get the point across in a unique way. A third example would be to use a computer to do reasearch for a project because you can find useful articles and websites that you cannot find in books.

1 comment:

TexasTheresa said...

Good job on the content. 3/4 due to errors in mechanics of writing: PowerPoint is a proper noun and has two capital letters with no space; "Your not learning" should be "You're not learning"; WebQuest is also a proper noun with two capital letters; iMovie has a capital letter in the middle; "reasearch" should be "research".