"Type I and Type II Technology"

Type I Technology: can be defined as using current technology to enhance old teaching practices that may or may not be effective.
Examples:
1. Instead of hand writing notes on the black board technology has allowed teachers to take their notes and present them to their students by using power point presentations. Still the same teaching practice of lecturing and letting the students take notes, however, the notes now appear electronically on a screen instead of a black board.
2. In foreign language classes students now use computers and online web searches to look up the definition of a word instead of using a hand held dictionary. The teaching practice has stayed the same but the equipment has been upgraded.
3. When I was in high school students who took the graphic design course in the vocational center had to create a blue print of a house, and then construct the house using popsicle sticks. Now students taking the graphic design course still have to create a blue print of a house, but instead of constructing it with popsicle sticks they use a computer program to recreate the blue prints.
Type II Technology: can be defined as teaching practices, using current technologies, which have evolved and developed over the years to help enhance the way people learn.
Examples:
1. Math and music have always shared a link; in fact my high school band director would say something along the lines of “music is more than rhythm it’s mathematical equations waiting to be discovered”. Teachers are now using programs such as rock band not only to teach their students how to compose music, but how to count rhythms and make equations using different rhythms.
2. Physical education teachers are using pedometers to help students engage in physical activities.
3. Videotaping athletic performance has become a new way to analyze physical movement and body mechanics. While attending the University of Maine at Presque Isle we used video cameras to record different movements of the body to see how a person moves, and to determine how efficient that movement is for that certain activity.

Maddux, Cleborne D. and D. LaMont Johnson. Type II Applications of Technology in Education: New and Better Ways of Teaching and Learning. The Haworth Press. Inc., 2005.