Reflection 1 Rewritten

The driving question above sustains a lot of depth and discussion when we consider how much of a role technology plays in today's world, especially in the context of a classroom or the school system.

In high school, iPads were all given to us as a form of learning which was used in every aspect of my education up until year 10 when we were given Laptops instead because they were thought to be more reliable than iPads. Reliability is a word I don't think should be used to describe technology anymore. Thinking about this more as an adult, has me thinking that technology isn't as reliable as we think.

As an adult now technology has grasped a significant portion of my life. I spend quite a lot of time on my phone/laptop watching things, and almost all of my work including university work is saved to my laptop. Technology causes me quite a bit of stress when I had issues navigating technolo
gy such as errors or glitches. Or even when I forget to charge my laptop/phone that causes significant amounts of stress because I can't access my schoolwork. I don't think that this stress, looking back was worth it. To prevent this from happening in the future, I would plan out my schedule in more detail and ensure that I do not go to university/school with an undercharged device if I know I need to use it. Using strategies and rules for myself and for younger generations to pr
event this overreliance would also be effective, putting in place rules such as the 10-minute rule for iPhones or even time locks for social media helps us to moderate our online use and stop the dependency we seem to be reliant on. (“Stolen Focus’ Warns against the Profit-Motivated Distractions of Technology - ProQuest,” 2022). There were positive aspects of this experience, however. Although this did cause me stress, I still enjoyed the aspect of technology that allowed me to save all my work and important documents to one place and keep track of them all on one device.

In a classroom setting  bringing these newfound ideas and thoughts can help me to try and help my students to break free from this dependency on technology they may inhabit. As stated in module 2 of this driving question,  “Students need continuing o
pportunities and sustained engagement to learn to think critically, creatively and innovatively when using and creating with technologies and technologies processes” (Shape of the Australian Curriculum Technologies, 2012). Studies like these suggest and prove that students do require technology as a part of there learning but we still must maintain moderation.

Strategies I would use in the classroom would be finding technology that lets students learn from themselves and each other rather than have them stare at a screen, such as apps like AudioBoom (Reissman 2017). Also allowing students to maybe get outside more often throughout the day and reflect on the ideas and thoughts they learned from the technology would be a good idea to give them a fresh new look at what they just learned, kind of like a Brain Break. Its these strategies and techniques that we can use in a classroom to help us break free from this dependency on Technology and continue on a path of acting more sustainably.

References

- Reissman, H 2017, 7 sma
rt ways to use technology in classrooms, ideas.ted.com, viewed 6 September 2024, <https://ideas.ted.com/7-smart-ways-to-use-technology-in-classrooms/>.

‌ - “Stolen Focus” warns against the profit-motivated distractions of technology - ProQuest. (2022). 

Proquest.com. https://doi.org/%22,

- - The Shape of Australian Curriculum technologies, August 2012. https://docs.acara.edu.au/resources/Shape_of_the_Australian_Curriculum_-_Technologies_-_August_2012.pdf