New times demand new ways of learning BACK

• The traditional learning model is not relevant to real student needs:

Today what must be promoted is "engaged, meaningful learning and collaboration involving challenging and real life tasks"

• The traditional mechanisms for evaluating the effectiveness of technology programs don't work

The question shouldn't be: does the new technologies enhance, improve student learning?  Instead, we should concentrate on evaluating individual technologies against specific learning, engagement, collaboration, and communication goals (every thing that should be promoted today in education)

 What seems to be forgotten is that high technology serves education as much as books or videos do. It's just a tool, and as any other tool it can well or badly be used. Therefore:  "Effectiveness is not a function of the technology, but rather of the learning environment and the capability to do things one could not do otherwise."

Detail the indicators that can be used to mesure the effectiveness of high technologies in an learning environment by pointing out the indicators of engaged learning the indicators of high technology performance.