Digital Technology in Education: Conceptual Coverage and Teaching Practices

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Digital Technology in Education
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1/30/2019

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Executive Summary
This report is focused on a contextual, dynamic as well as multi-dimensional practice of
teachers’ utilisation of digital technologies during their everyday work and the relevant
frameworks have been presented and illustrated. The report emphasized upon many
methodologies for the DTC based on the experience of teaching experts as well as school
leaders. The theoretical bases which have been provided in this report have built upon
teachers’ viewpoint towards digital technologies, on account for teachers can easily adopt as
well as utilise innovation which is compatible to their individual thoughts and beliefs
regarding teaching and learning.
Further, impacts, challenges and need of digital technologies in education are addressed.
Additionally, a strong link amid teachers’ knowledge, digital technologies and pedagogies of
teaching has been demonstrated referring to many important frameworks. Conceptual
coverage of digital technology in education has been done successfully. Furthermore, an
attempt of integrating 21st century skills into transformative activities of teaching and learning
is been discussed in this report. DTC practices have been suggested for the better and smarter
future of the world. As a result, the paper has successfully delivered the importance, need and
implications of digital technologies into the area of global education. In the later section of
the report, useful recommendations for having a smarter world in the near future will be
provided.

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Contents
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................1
Digital Technology in Education...............................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background............................................................................................................................3
Literature Review...................................................................................................................3
Digital Technology in Education...............................................................................................4
Conceptual coverage of digital technologies in education.....................................................4
Terminologies related to digital technologies in education...............................................5
Digital Technology based Teaching practices.......................................................................6
Intelligent tutoring (IT) through Artificial intelligence (AI)..............................................6
Personalized Learning........................................................................................................7
Gamification.......................................................................................................................7
2-way conversation based E-Learning...............................................................................7
Use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) for teaching and learning......8
Open resources methodology.............................................................................................8
Online Programs and Classes.............................................................................................8
Learning Texts in a Digital form........................................................................................9
Transformative Activities and link to pedagogical theory models and practice....................9
Transformative learning through DTC...............................................................................9
DTC link with the pedagogical theory models and practice of teaching and learning....10
21st century skills embedded into activities for using intelligent technology.....................11
The challenges and criticisms of DTC.............................................................................13
Conclusion................................................................................................................................14
Recommendations....................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................16

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Digital Technology in Education
Introduction
The report is based on the effective and efficient utilization of digital technologies in the area
of education. The discussion will consists of concept of digitised education or smarter
education, need of digital technology into learning, impacts of digital technology on
education and future scope of the same (Broadbent & Poon, 2015).
Background
In the present era, digital technology in the classrooms (referred as DTC) refers as digital
processing system which encourages active learning, active inquiry, knowledge construction,
and exploration from the learners’ end. DTC offers a remote communication and effective
data sharing amid teachers and learners within the different physical classrooms locations
(Liu et al., 2009). DTC can also be taken as an expanded notion of digital technologies which
identifies their growth from ordinary info delivery systems as well as clarifies the role in
classrooms for the wider use across global learning centres and schools (Williamson, 2017).
Digital technology in education helps in anticipating a Smarter Future for the whole world
(Donche, 2013). The report will focus on main digital technologies which will surely
transform teaching and learning practices in the upcoming future, identify major issues
during their implementation, as well as implications for those digital based teaching practices
which will require to be considered in future. This report will ensure all students’ overall
development as 21st century’s digital citizens (Beetham & Sharpe, 2013). Besides, this report
will provide a series of recommendations for having a smarter future of the world.
Literature Review
The paper (Higgins et al., 2012), described the methodology of generation, creation as well as
acquisition of info and knowledge from the digital technology. It has described an effective
use of ICT for managing and organising explicit knowledge. The journal (Underwood, 2009),
also described how can the digital technology be used to access as well as apply explicit
knowledge about any subject. Besides, the paper has shared the way the digital technologies
have been utilised in education as well as their impact on learning and teaching in general
(Gila & Barry, 2010). There are so many important academic journals which have been