Discussion Question 1 week 11

Project Proposal on Emerging Technologies

Larry Ratliff Jr

EDU 542

Dr. Katz

July 22, 2018

Project Proposal on Emerging Technologies

Introduction

Technology in the society is growing at a very fast pace and there is need to develop strategies that will ensure its properly embraced for our benefits. This is because technology is inevitable and cannot be avoided. In the same way the landscape of education and training has been developing and changing swiftly over the past years hence the need to also have a technology plan that will make learning and education systematic and enjoyable.

Purpose of and rationale

In the development of my K12 course project I will utilize the G-suite education and Social Mention technologies. I decided to utilize this combination of technologies in the development of my K12 project as they will provide a diversified function when working together hence making education and training within the institution more fun and systematic. The G-suite technology provides many different cloud computing functions like Google classroom, Google forms, Google doc and other virtual support that will facilitate the interaction of the teacher, student and even parent or guardian where necessary (Stevenson & Hedberg, 2017).

G-suite provides extra enterprise grade functionalities that are designed to ensure large institutions are able to control analyze and monitor their operation smoothly. On the other hand, the social mention technology will provide social interaction and linking of the peers and teachers to vast information while having fun or socializing. Social Mention currently provides a point-in-time or real time search services which is vital in education. Social mention monitors the operation of Facebook, twitters, Digg, Google and YouTube among others hence making information available and easily accessed within the same platform (SocialMention, n.d.). A combination of these platforms can facilitate the provision of educational practices to student of all aspect including disables hence making it more effective and efficient in the educational system.

Three (3) reasons why these particular tools are considered an emerging technology to the educational or training setting

Emerging technology is technologies that are considered to change the status quo or how things are done in a routine manner. This can be educational or information among other perspectives. In our K12 project development G-suite and social mention technologies is considered to be an emerging technology in the sense that they provide effective real time provision of educational information and platform to the institutions, parent and students as well (G-suite, n.d.).

The ability to incorporate the parent to monitor how the students are educated is an aspect hat facilitates the programs to be emerging and widely embraced. The other factor is the provision of virtual or online classroom experience to the student. In the contemporary era most, educational activities are shifted to online platforms and this systems effectiveness under this sector (Roberts-Mahoney, Means & Garrison, 2016). The last factor that facilitates the technologies to be emerging is the sustainability of the program in the long run. The system has the capacity to provide the services smoothly in the long run by only upgrading time and again.

Three to five (3–5) possible benefits of these two technologies in the classroom or workplace setting

The systems provide diverse benefits to the classroom or workplace setting within the organization. Provision of real time access of data or information is one of the benefits that come with these technologies. Also, the technology facilitates conveniences as the students or employee can access the information despite of their geographical locations in real time. Despite the initial cost of installation and training the system can reduce the operational cost in the work places and classroom as well in the long run. The system can provide services to disabled individuals when configured hence being more user friendly and effective.

The system provides a large base of information within a single platform hence being convenient and time saving technologies in the organization or classroom activities. The system can have indirect benefit to the environment as there will be reduced paper work commuting and congesting the cities hence saving trees and reduction of global warming catalyst in the society. The platforms also provide cloud space that will reduce physical storage space in class and workplaces hence cost effectiveness. Finally, these platforms provide social interaction ability through social media channels which will make learning and working fun (Greenhow & Askari, 2017).

Three to five (3–5) instructional goals and how incorporating these technologies support those goals

Instructional objectives are statements that are provided to the student by the teacher or trainer to ensure they change and embrace it in the long run for their own benefits in life. Under this K12 project development there are some instructional objectives that are developed and supported by the emerging technologies for the best interest of the parties involved (Ventayen et al, 2016). One of the instructional goals is development of dependency among the student when learning. G-suite and social mention programs provides diversified and comprehensive information to student at their disposal hence this will boost they confidence level and ability to develop independence effectively. Critical or strategic learning is another instructional mechanism that the system will provide to the student as they will be having a lot of information at their disposal hence the need to use the critical thinking mechanism to identify and develop effective research or thesis of a given project or readings. Also, development of social skills is another instructional goal that the system deems to achieve through the use of social mention that allows the student to practice their social skill in chats and other social platforms. Also, problem solving ability is another aspect that the system is designed to provide to the student.

Conclusion

The paper provided a rationale of the G suite and Social Mention technologies being incorporated in the development of the K12 education program. The paper also elaborated why the technologies are considered emerging in K12 education and later provided the benefits of the system being convenience, cost effectiveness and user friendly. Lastly the paper provided the instructional goals and how the system facilitated their achievement successfully.

References

Greenhow, C., & Askari, E. (2017). Learning and teaching with social network sites: A decade of research in K-12 related education. Education and information technologies, 22(2), 623-645.

Stevenson, M. E., & Hedberg, J. G. (2017). Mobilizing learning: a thematic review of apps in K-12 and higher education. Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 14(2), 126-137.

Roberts-Mahoney, H., Means, A. J., & Garrison, M. J. (2016). Netflixing human capital development: personalized learning technology and the corporatization of K-12 education. Journal of Education Policy, 31(4), 405-420.

Ventayen, R. J. M., Estira, K. L. A., De Guzman, M. J., Cabaluna, C. M., & Espinosa, N. N. (2018). Usability Evaluation of Google Classroom: Basis for the Adaptation of GSuite E-Learning Platform. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts, and Sciences, 5(1), 47-51.

G-suite (n.d.). Retrieved from: https://edu.google.com/

SocialMention (n.d.). Retrieved from: http://socialmention.com/