The value of mobile technology in teaching and learning.

The value of mobile technology in learning is growing immensely, and will be used more frequently in the future of education. “Such wide application of technologies, in a sense, can be attributed to the purpose of enhancing effective and cost-effectiveness of delivery of education” (Wong and Pang, 2015).

For the subject I teach, technology would be hard to use. Acting has always used technology within the subject for lighting sound and projection which is something new within acting and performances. Programs like Qlabs are becoming more frequently used on courses to train the students on how to use the technology that is advancing.

Martinez states that “Technology enhanced learning (TEL) has shaped the way we teach and learn nowadays” (2012). “The internet and the technology advances have provided a virtual space where learning can take place outside the classroom.” (de Andrés Martínez, 2012) . A great way of using technology within acting is to encourage the students to write their logbooks as a blog, this will help the lecture to know that the students have not copied or plagiarised. This would help the teachers to check the work for plagiarism to get them to submit their blog through turn it in. An example of this would be, Turnitin is used for detecting plagiarism and marking electronically, and it has been found to be very valuable for teaching staff (Buckley & Cowap, 2013).

References

Buckley, E., & Cowap, L. (2013). An evaluation of the use of Turnitin for electronic submission and marking as a formative feedback tool from an educator's perspective. British journal of educational technology, 44(4), p.562-570.

De Andrés Martínez, C. (2012) ‘Developing metacognition at a distance: Sharing students’ learning strategies on a reflective blog’, Computer Assisted Language Learning, 25(2), pp. 199–212. doi: 10.1080/09588221.2011.636056.

Wong, B. Y.-Y. and Pang, S. (2015) ‘A framework for effectiveness of institutional policies on technology-enhanced learning’, in Technology in Education. Transforming Educational Practices with Technology. Springer Science + Business Media, pp. 175–186.