Emerging Classroom Technology: Opportunities And Pitfalls

Based on the premise that currently available technology can and should be better utilized to enhance the classroom experience — and ultimately to help students learn, this paper outlines a series of opportunities and pitfalls associated with deploying technology both inside and outside the classroom. Issues addressed include teaching in the visual arena, adapting course material to different learning styles, consolidating lecture presentation materials onto a single medium, using wireless LANs in the classroom, and using technologybased instructional delivery in place of traditional lectures for presentation of selected topics.