EDLD 5314

Digital Learning in Local and Global Contexts (EDLD 5314) is the ninth course in Lamar’s Digital Learning and Leading program.  For this course, my focus was primarily on learning from the experience of others – specifically, looking at what worked, what didn’t work, and what lessons I could learn from those experiences. If history has taught us anything, it is that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The year 2020 changed the landscape of education on a global scale, and it changed our campus forever. Students and faculty, together, have been forced to embrace a whole new world of information and communication technology. Faculty have had to embrace communication technology to teach students in ways well outside of their comfort zones, and students have had to learn to use information technology to access and acquire information from a wide variety of sources beyond the walls of the traditional classroom. Students taking ownership of their own learning has become an essential skill for success.

However, not all technology usage has been successful. In the case of the LA School system’s iPad rollout in 2013 an article for Wired magazine stated, “Los Angeles is a classic case of a school district getting caught up in the ed tech frenzy without fully thinking through why technology is important in the first place” (Lapowsky, 2015). In this case, the school district started with the technology and did not first determine what problem they are trying to solve or what instructional purpose they are seeking to improve.

The following posts are part of EDLD 5314 – Digital Learning in Local and Global Context.

 

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Lapowsky, I. (2015, May 8). What schools must learn from LA’s ipad debacle. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/05/los-angeles-edtech/