Philippine E-Journals

Towards a Design of Partnership Between Pedagogy and the Use of New Multimedia Technologies

Miguel Q. Rapatan

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

For many years, designers of educational technologies have tried CO-embody a synergy of technology and pedagogy in their works. Duffy and Jonassen remark that "our theory of learning is implicit in our design, and hence one can come to a reasonable understanding of our beliefs about learning from an analysis of that design". Designers must aim for a match between these two. If this is not achieved, a dissonant situation may result wherein the teacher, the projected user, unwittingly subverts the pedagogical power of a specific technology and renders it worthless and inutile.