This document discusses overcoming fears of using technology in education. It notes that teachers and students often worry about not knowing enough about technology or looking foolish when using it. However, the document encourages that a lot of useful work can be done without any technology knowledge, and there is no single right way to incorporate it. Various low-tech and hands-on approaches are suggested that allow learning through doing and making, such as tangible user interfaces, text-based programming, robots, and maker spaces.

1. Where do we start?

14. You are doing
a lot already

15. You are doing
a lot already
You do NOT have to
know much about
technology

16. You are doing
a lot already
You do NOT have to
know much about
technology
A lot of useful
work can be
done without
ANY technology

17. You are doing
a lot already
You do NOT have to
know much about
technology
A lot of useful
work can be
done without
ANY technology
There is no
‘right’ way

18. You are doing
a lot already
You do NOT have to
know much about
technology
A lot of useful
work can be
done without
ANY technology
There is no ‘right’
way

19. Fear
3 biggest fears of a teacher
using technology
How do I make
this work?
How do I avoid
looking like an
idiot?
{They will know
more about this
than I do}
Fear

20. 3 biggest fears of a student
using technology

22. Computing unplugged

25. TUI:
Tangible User
Interfaces

27. Graphic interface

28. Text based languages

29. Robots

32. We learn by doing (Piaget, 1950)
Photo by Steve Wheeler
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2015

33. We learn by making (Papert, 1960)
Photo by Steve Wheeler
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2015

34. SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2015
Maker
spaces