Technology can play a traditional role, i.e. as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons or in a constructivist way as partners in the learning process.
In a constructive way, technology helps the learner build more personal interpretations of life in her/his world. Technology is a learning tool to learn with not from. It makes the learner gather, think, analyze, synthesize information and construct meaning with what technology presents
Technology as tools to support knowledge construction
For presenting learners’ ideas, understandings and beliefs
For producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases for learners
Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing:
For accessing needed information
For comparing perspectives, beliefs and world views
Technology as context to support learning by doing
for representing and simulating meaningful real-world problems, situations and contexts
for representing beliefs, perspectives, arguments, and stories of others
For defining safe, controllable problem space for student thinking