Theories of Critical Thinking

     In the outline “The Adoption Process” (Rogers, 1963), it is obvious that all individuals do not adopt an innovation at the same time. It spoke on how opinion leaders were almost like the followers when seeking advice and making adoption decisions. It later stated that the leaders did not veer far from the community norms of what was already created and established. However, in order to provide new ideas and learning they needed to have diverse type of opinion leaders. They didn’t need to be compared to the followers because they provided resourceful information for everyone to benefit from.  

 

    The article “A rich seam: “The new pedagogies require students to create new knowledge and connect it to the world by using the power of digital tools” (Fullan & Langworthy, 2014). This quote is so powerful because students need to be equipped with the skills to properly know how to use technology along with knowing how it applies to learning. Its spoke on the importance of “deep learning” where students learn by creating and doing to help them for future endeavors. Digital tools give students the opportunity to apply learning to real world problems to enhance their learning and create confident diligent learners. The goal in this is to prepare students skills to go beyond the classroom as technology continues to grow and change daily.

    After carefully reading each article, I truly learned useful information about where we are in place in time with technology. It provided a different outlook on how things have changed when it comes to new technology advancements along with challenges we face as teachers. When dealing with technology it always comes with advantages and disadvantages for student learning. As an educator, I feel it is very important we stay up to date with new technology and learn how it benefit each student to promote student learning. With the upcoming generation they are very familiar with the latest technology, so it is our job to take that information and formulate in a way for student to learn through real world applications. 

Fullan, M. & Langworthy, M. (2014). A rich seam: How new pedagogies find deep learning. London: Pearson. Retrieved from https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/one-dot-com/one-dot-com/global/Files/about-pearson/innovation/open-ideas/ARichSeamEnglish.pdf

Rogers, E. M. (1963). The adoption process II. Journal of Cooperative Extension, 1(2), 69-75. Retrieved from https://archives.joe.org/joe/1963summer/1963-2-a2.pdf