How to Use Technology in Education (21st century education)

Paul Romani (M.Ed.) from Pear Tree Education provides an overview of how technology should be used in 21st century education.

This video covers both the misconceptions about the role of technology in 21st century education, as well as the variety of meaningful uses for technology.

0:00 Introduction
0:09 Most popular notion of modern education
0:21 Misconceptions about the importance of technology
0:27 How to implement technology effectively
1:40 Public Spending Cutbacks?
2:02 Student-centred Learning?
3:22 How should technology be used in education?
4:10 Ethics in Online Behaviour
4:40 Self Esteem Online
5:34 More Sophisticated Possibilities
6:03 Cheap Imitation Software
6:14 Software Tools To Create New Software!

Please note that future videos will present specific examples of implementing technology in theme-based contexts, whereas this video is designed to be a brief overview.

This is the second in a series of videos discussing these different elements of 21st century education.

Pear Tree Education operates a private school (Pear Tree School) and a 21st century education after-school learning centre based in Vancouver, B.C.

School website: peartree.school
Main website: pear-tree.ca