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Presentation at New Teachers' Orientation Workshop at Dawson College (January 12th, 2009).
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Paving the Gaps with Educational Technology
Rafael Scapin
Coordinator of Educational Technology
Office of Instructional Development
Technology and New Students
The “@ Generation”
Technology and New Students
Paving the Gaps...
Technological
Gap
Paving the Gaps...
Educational Technology
Educational technology: encompasses the many ways that technology can be used to facilitate or enhance the educational process.
New technologies have an increasingly important role to play in the teaching and learning process.
The availability of new tools, such as Course Management Systems, presents many clear and exciting advantages for both teachers and students. Yet, they can also pose considerable challenges.
Educational Technology
The OID promotes the effective and creative use of technology in education, by providing teachers with individual or group support in each of the following areas:
• Help in mastering basic computer technology; • Getting started with CMSs (Moodle, LÉA, FirstClass); • Advanced uses of CMSs as a pedagogical tools; • Special departmental strategies involving CMSs; • Introduction to new technologies (e.g. Wikis, Podcasting,
Multimedia, Web 2.0); • Pedagogical strategies involving educational technology;• Special project support.
Techie Teacher
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