Defining Technological Resources

Technological Resources

• How many types of resources are there?

There are technological, digital and analog resources. They can take the form of tools, materials, devices, people and settings.

• How are resources appropriately used?

They are considered as appropriately used as long as they are suitables for and compatibles with educational goals. They need to have professional standards. They have to be effective and efficient.

• How have the evolution of resources and emerging technologies affected the educational field?

The evolution of resources and emerging technologies has affected the educational field in a positive way as it makes communication and interaction between students and teachers increasingly easy and accessible and, in some ways, ironically, it brings interaction closer by bringing teachers and students together through apps and blogs where at any time the teacher can post something and almost immediately the students can respond and interact with the online resources on the web pages.

• How digital tools have changed the landscape of educational technology?

Digital tools have changed educational technology in a way that makes everything easier to access information and reproduce content without losing quality. The use of the computer and the Internet are two of the most important resources and tools that have existed since the 1990s because it has made it possible to shorten the distance between the instructor and the learners. Now you can think of a virtual and distance class.

• According to the reading, how are settings and people used as resources?

People are used as resources so that learners can be supported by being digital resource experts who can help focus on how learners can gain knowledge in an easier and familiar way. Settings are locations or environments in which learning is facilitated by audiovisual and tangible resources in some cases which help to reinforce learning through practice and recreation.

• What ethical issues are to be considered in the use of resources?

Cost, accessibility, and equitable allocation of resources are some of these ethical issues. Resources should be equally accessible and universally designed, meaning they should be easily accessible and adaptable for people with disabilities.

• What assumptions mentioned by the author have changed after the pandemic?

The author assumes that the way of giving classes is primarily and essentially face-to-face in a classroom or at least in a group manner. It assumes that groups of apprentices and teachers can go and access field trips such as visits to museums and places where today after the pandemic is something that is not exactly that way. Now we have modalities in which sometimes there are classroom classes and sometimes they are distance, or there is also the hybrid modality which is a combination of the two mentioned above.

• What aspects do you disagree with?

I know the text is perhaps a bit late and maybe that's why it says that, but I don't agree with some aspects the author mentions about VHS still being used mostly in the classroom. I think that is no longer used at all. There will certainly be some places where it is still occupied for accessibility issues, but it is no longer something that is in the majority.

Luis Miguel Méndez Ornelas

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