What Technology AddsThe question to ask of any tool: what does this do that the analogue version cannot?EducationTechnology is a delivery mechanism. It does not teach by being present.Genuine additionsInstant response from a whole class at oncePractice at a pace the pupil setsSimulations of what cannot be shown liveImmediate marking of objective answersAccess adjustments: audio, captions, magnificationNot additionsThe same worksheet, on a screenA slide deck read aloud to the classNovelty that fades within a fortnightVideo where a diagram would doAnything added between the pupil and the ideaTechnology helps by improving the quality or quantity of explanation,practice and feedback. It does not help by being technology.What Technology Addslearnposters.com
What Technology Adds — printable humanities wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the What Technology Adds poster

10 entries in 2 groups.

Technology is a delivery mechanism. It does not teach by being present.

Technology helps by improving the quality or quantity of explanation, practice and feedback. It does not help by being technology.

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What’s on the What Technology Adds poster?
10 entries in 2 groups. Technology is a delivery mechanism. It does not teach by being present. Genuine additions: Instant response from a whole class at once, Practice at a pace th…; Not additions: The same worksheet, on a screen, A slide deck read aloud to the class,…. Technology helps by improving the quality or quantity of explanation, practice and feedback. It does not help by being technology.
Who is the What Technology Adds poster for?
What Technology Adds belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning educational technology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the What Technology Adds poster?
Use it before a purchase, a pilot, or a whole-school rollout. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Technology Adds belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with What Technology Adds?
Judging An Edtech Claim, Adaptive Software and Generative AI In Teaching sit alongside What Technology Adds in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Judging An Edtech ClaimAdaptive SoftwareGenerative AI In Teaching
Is the What Technology Adds poster free to download and print?
Yes. What Technology Adds downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the What Technology Adds poster print at?
What Technology Adds is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Technology Adds loses nothing.Printing guide

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