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important thing is not the technology ...

... but what your students can do with it. Jordi wrote an article yesterday on his blog with which I agree fully. We're sick of hearing that what matters is not technology, but what we can do with it. In fact, this phrase is now the slogan of a famous brand of mobile phones. But for my taste and aimed at teachers, we might rework it a little: "what matters is not technology, but what your students can do with it."

Firstly, the tools exist to serve our purposes and should not impose its logic or the purpose for which they were designed and marketed.

Second, what matters is not what teachers do, but what they can do (and thus learning) students.

Thirdly, has anybody raised the amount of "artifacts" that can build cultural ... sorry, that our students can build with ICT?

Help me make a list. To me, I could think of these in a while:

• Texts (all types and gender, individual and collective)
• Images (Photos, synthesis)
• Drawings (diagrams, artistic, etc.).
• Graphics (Climograma, charts, statistics ...)
• Hypermedia (websites)
• Concept maps, mind maps, etc.
• Comics Posters Presentations
• multimedia Audio, Video
• music, animations
Games Simulations
Map
• multimedia (geolocation)
• multimedia Timelines (schedules)
• And more "stuff" not yet have a name

Each type of device we can associate a series of tools to create it. We can go to Cool Tools for Schools and see the selection of tools that we face. And every week there are new. But what is most important, in my opinion, is not the tool or action by action, but they can decide what artifacts we propose to create our students in terms of what cognitive processes aim to promote and what objectives and in particular, criteria for evaluation of the curriculum we want to work. We can also decide which devices "line up" better with the curriculum content and what is the methodology teaching most appropriate in our context, for our students, their background, can perform a task or activity concreta.Todos these steps, the curriculum to the artifacts and the organization of the task is simply the key educational use of ICT.