Sunday, January 27, 2008
Type I and Type II Technology
Type I and Type II technology are two very different ways to use technology for education. Type I technology is a passive way to make tradition teaching easier. Type I technologies usually involve a program that relays information to the user. Throughout my life I have experienced type I technologies many times. At my old job Hannaford I experienced a training CD-ROM which showed a series of training videos for a Hannaford Cashier. The user could choose the video they wanted to watch and it played the movie for them. In many classes I have witnessed PowerPoint presentations which show images and information in a slide show format. PowerPoint is usually used in presentations. Several times within classes I have been asked to take personality or intelligence exams that require me to answer questions and the program deducts an answer about my personality or intelligence. These are all examples of type I technologies because the user has very little involvement with the program and the program is in control of the eventual outcome. Type II technologies are technologies that bring about better ways of teaching. These programs are at the control of the user and end in a wide variety of results. Throughout my life I have experienced type II technologies many times. An example of a type II program is Photoshop because it allows the viewer to change a photo but the changes are at the will of the user. Internet browsers could be considered a type II technology program because it gives a user access to the internet but is at the control of user. Simulation technology is another example of a type II technology because it allows the user to simulate something but the end result is at the will of the user.
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Your content is good--just what was asked for. And you have interesting things to say. You just have issues with your writing.
3/4 points due to typos: "way to make tradition teaching easier" should be "traditional"; type I should be Type I; "At my old job Hannaford I experienced" should be "At my old job at Hannaford, I experienced" or "at my old job, Hannaford, I experienced"; type II should be Type II; "Internet browsers could be considered a type II technology program because it gives a user" should either be "browsers . . . give" or "an Internet browser . . . gives"; "Internet browsers could be considered a Type II technology program because it gives" should be either "Internet browsers . . . give" or "Internet browser . . . gives";
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