Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
Technology alone may not change the role of the teacher. However, technology, coupled with growing research on how people learn, does have the potential to positively alter the role of the teacher in ways that will facilitate student learning. In Pathways to School Improvement from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory on the Internet, Jones (1992) suggested several elements that are common to high achieving learning environments for children:
1. The locus of learning is the learner and the goal of learning is the construction of meaning by the student.
2. Learning focuses less on low-level basic skills and isolated facts and more on enabling students to construct meaning; solve complex problems; and develop and learn content or cognitive processes, strategies, and skills.
3. The environment encourages self-regulated learning rather than teacher-regulated learning.
4. Instruction emphasizes depth of learning rather than breadth of learning. (p. 168)
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
101
Last Page
104
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1996 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bode, Al and Olesen, Susan
(1996)
"Issue Area Four: In What Ways Will Technology Change the Role of Teachers?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 30.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol6/iss1/30
