Foundation Skills/Using technology in teaching/Technology for your context

Technology for your context
The challenge for you as a teacher (or lecturer) is to make a concerted effort to use new technology in your teaching and learning context. Of course, you may already be doing so, but we also know that technology tools are quickly dated (not so long ago, teenagers were really into Bebo!) and students become bored very quickly. So, to counteract the above, it's probably a good idea to use a greater variety of Web 2.0 technology tools in your teaching context and to incorporate new ones regularly.

Have another look at the word cloud further up this page. The cloud is made up the names of the fifteen most popular technology tools for learning in 2012. If you want to see details of the top one hundred technology tools for 2012, check out the list on the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies website. As an exercise, how many of these have you used or tried to use?