This article discusses how higher education institutes integrate technology at different levels and for what courses technology is mostly needed for. They categorize different types of courses which technology helps the most, and also includes the courses that don't require much technology. However, they do require technology for the high-demand courses. Colleges can offer "hybrid' classrooms that integrate traditional teaching styles that include lectures without using computers or programs, but use technology for students to grasp different aspects of concepts.
This article seems to be misleading when you look at the author. The only author information is a name of just Adam. With little information about the person other than articles done by the same author, the site itself is extremely credible. It has different tabs discussing about factual college information that it uses in order to create true informative articles. There is much accuracy due to its use of college information and links to the colleges that generated the educational information. The article is also only a year old. Showing that this information is recent and applicable to today's day of age. The article has little bias to it due to the wide variety of college information it uses.
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Eric Mazur (March-April 2012). Twilight of Lecture. Retrieved online from http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/twilight-of-the-lecture#.T1URI3sRLkw.email
Studies have shown from Eric Mazur that learning is at its highest when using active learning, instead of having students look up online information when they don't understand it at first. Students are able to grasp concepts more easily if subjects are discussed with fellow peers. He also discusses how students might be able to look up any information on a subject online, but does that information really teach concepts to students? According to his statistics, apparently, not all of the time. He creates his studies off of the courses he teaches with trials and tests of his own. However, he does use other college studies of how other professors have had students interact with each other instead of using technology after lectures were over. The main point of his article was to inform us as readers that technology is useful. However, traditional uses and techniques are one of the most fundamental ways of teaching concepts by using active learning.
Eric Mazur is a college professor of physics at Harvard University, a leading ivy league school developing new studies for student technology integration. He is a well known professor throughout the educational community. His studies are well known and have been used in other courses within the higher educational environment. The information that he discusses and develops are from his own work and advice of other co-workers from Harvard. Eric Mazur has been constantly updating this recent article since march of 2012. This information can easily relate to today's use of technology integration. Eric Mazur seems to be slightly biased, but most of his information seems to come from much credible sources other than his own.
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Twilight of Lecture (2012) Images, From Google Images http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/twilight-of-the-lecture#article-images
I will use this photo explaining the techniques of traditional education. How students learn more interactive with each other instead of using computers and other devices.
Reaching The Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom (2011) Images, Google http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-Reaching-the-Last/123659/
This is a simple example of how technology is used in todays digital age. It will help create a point about technology integration in education.
Will 2011 be the year of the ipad 2? (March 2011) Images from Venturebeat online http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/02/will-2011-be-the-year-of-the-ipad-2-video/
Classroom of the Future? (2007) Image from Images Google, http://teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/2006/12/classroom-of-future.html
These are all excellent choices for your slideshow Andrew.
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