Use of Technology in Teaching Essay -- education, pedagogical approach

In this paper I will introduce you to my reflections that helped influence my pedagogical approach in the use of technology to address my learner needs. I will deliberate how this impacted on my current and future teaching, learning and assessment practices.I aim to hold forth technological advances in my industry, which is health, and how this impacts on my students straightaway and into the future. I will explain ways I made adjustments in the use of technology within my teaching area to better meet some(prenominal) mine and the students needs. My goal is to explain the strategies I will use to strengthen this area for ongoing development and how this will help in making adjustments to specific occupational and personal needs of my students.Reflections on past, current and future approach in the use of technologyI would like to discuss how I went from delivering a face to face class of 12 students to today having over 100 students externally using technology as my main pitch shot method. Lets go back to the beginning of my delivery of a Certificate IV level in the health area. I started at my workplace by existence given a qualification to deliver, and nothing much else. I wrote the material required for a face to face class, as that is all that I knew to do at the time. I did this for over a few years in which time I collated a reasonable amount of feedback from both my current and prospective students. This started me on a journey of critical reflection resulting in distant and online delivery. Looking back on my reflective practice approaches and journey, I have pay off a long way but still have a way to go. John Deweys vision in1923, was School should be less of a preparation for life and more like life itself. (Dewey, 1923) Although he was... ...reditationMIMS Australia . (2013). Retrieved from MIMS Australia http//www.mims.com.au/index.php/products/product-overviewDewey, J. (1923). Democracy and Education-An introduction to the Pilosophy of E ducation. Los Angeles, Calafornia Indo European Publishing.Martha Burkle, M. C.-I. (2013, January). Defining the role adjument profile of learners and instructors online. Journal of Asynchronous acquisition Networks,, 17(1), 73 -87.Moore, M. G., & Kearsley, G. (2005). Distance Education A Systems View of online learning. Belmont,CA Wadsworth Cengage Learning.Rory McGreal, M. E. (2011). Technologies of online learning (E-Learning). In T. Anderson (Ed.), The Theory and Practice of Online Learning. Edmonton Au Press, Athabasca University.Rushton, I. S. (2012). Reflective Practice For Teaching In long Learning. Maidenhead, GBR Open University Press.