Challenge candidate digital technologies against a learning-based pedagogical framework before adoption¶

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Description¶

As a practical move, the article recommends testing proposed uses of digital technologies against a pedagogical framework derived from what is known about learning. The abstract describes building "what we know about what it takes to learn" into a framework "with which to challenge digital technologies to deliver a genuinely enhanced learning experience". In practice this means interrogating each candidate technology use: does it serve learners' and teachers' needs as the framework specifies, and does it genuinely enhance the learning experience rather than merely enable new activity?

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A pedagogical framework grounded in knowledge of what it takes to learn must be available to apply.

Constraints¶

• The strategy presupposes the article's claim that technologies are rarely designed with teaching and learning in mind, so challenge and adaptation fall to educators.

Target Learners¶

• teachers and designers selecting collaborative technologies

Target Learning Goals¶

• selecting and shaping technology use that genuinely enhances learning

Affordances¶

• Pedagogical Framework Challenge Digital Technologies

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Diana Laurillard. (2009). The pedagogical challenges to collaborative technologies. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL), 4, pp.5-20. https://hal.science/hal-00592750