The Student Role in Technology Supported Learning

When technology enters classroom, it affects students' work in various ways. Students' learning strategies are challenged within the variety of new possibilities and opportunities that technologies offer in learning work. Technology supported learning bring more openness and flexibility into the assignments which is good for well-performing students but challenging for those with less developed learning strategies. They tend to be more vulnerable when the complexity increases and need more support to master the tasks. Or else they will drop out of the learning activity. Motivation also increases when students are offered technology supported work. Collaboration is also something that signifies learning work with technology. Technology supported learning therefore require collaborative skills; the ability to ask critical questions, to negotiate between different meanings, and to evaluate collaborative work.