(Part 1) Bonnie Bracey and (Part 2) Steven Lerman- Week 5 - Journal Entry

Part 1: In this video from MIT, Bonnie Bracey argues for support for use of media in education.  The presentation is primarily geared to k-12 education.  Bracy proposes the following benefits of media and technology:

• To students: Media "speaks" to children and helps them create, analyze and go places they otherwise couldn't go.  Bracey refers to the "weightless goods" of information that is passed across the internet.
  
• To teachers: Technology allows teachers to bring in resources and experts from around the world and to find new and interesting content

Bracey proposes that teaching and learning can be changed by creating "engaged learning" that allows teachers to explore and create a "learning landscape".  She defines a "learning landscape" as a way in which children learn and explore that provides many forms of resources to learn.  In order to create a learning landscape, teachers need access and support to learn the technology  (how does it work?, how do we use it?).  Construction of a learning landscape includes creation of the product, project, objective and assessment where the teacher is the guide.  Bracey argues that such "transformational learning" will create a path to lifelong learning.

Finally, Bracey calls on stakeholders (the public, teachers and administrators) to consider new:

1. Ways to explore technology (via technology roundtables),
   
2. Ways to share technology (to know the available resources for students and teachers),
3. Technologies (to know the technologies of the future).

Part 2. Steven Lerman (Note: Could not access the "slides" referenced in the video?) -- Need to finish this section after Lori confirms whether slides available?

Opportunities:

• Too much is passive; need active participation
• Scheduled learning to "learn on demand"
• Set of materials given to students to students working toward some goal
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1. Enabling Technologies
2. Applications (applied research):  build things that will help students
3. Evaluation:
   

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