Giulia Covezzi's List: #edcmooc

• powerfully affects institutions, practices of information
• creation and sharing, and patterns of communication.

• Hand and Sandywell (2002)

• Changing technology affects nearly all aspects of life except, say many critics, the world of education. Why is this? Is technology inherently unsuited to education? Is it because teachers are reluctant to use it? It is because no one has found out how to use it well? How do you answer this question?
• Why should we want to use technology? How should we use technology for learning and teaching? What are the basic principles? Who can benefit most from educational technology? Where should we apply it? Which technologies are best? More generally, how do you make judgements about the many claims that are made for technology?
• The first is access, the second is quality and the third is cost.
• Can technology really increase access, improve quality and lower cost all at the same time. The evidence shows that it can. How does it do it?
• "When I asked about the possible use of alternative learning technologies one woman suggested that her most pressing need was not for learning technologies but for other technologies such as washing machines, cookers and vacuum cleaners, which would help shorten the time she spent on housework and increase the time she needed for studying."

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• Education is about more than acquiring skills.