Time pressures
“Time is the most scarce resource” 1 in education, so technology will most likely be used by teachers if it saves them time. Or if it doesn’t take longer to get the job done
The teachers I work with are mostly also clinicians, another group with a real shortage of time in their professions. Likely one of the most time pressured jobs available and putting these two roles together to create the clinical teacher leads to professionals who are very short on time. This was brought to my attention again recently, when one of the tutors on our programme (Ian Lee) worked with several medical students to put together a video which is used for one of the courses on the Clinical Educator Programme. The students’ gratefulness shows that they are very much aware of these time pressures. 2
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Clip+of+CEP_TCE_Med_students_draft+%281%29/1_f8tqkj8f
- Neil Selwyn, (2017) Education and technology: key issues and debates, 2nd Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc P
- Ian Lee, 2021. Teaching in Clinical Environments. What do Medical Students Think? [online]. [viewed 12 January 2021]. Available from https://media.ed.ac.uk
“Time is the most scarce resource” in education, so technology will most likely be used by teachers if it saves them time. Or if it doesn’t take longer to get the job done. ” – which would be highly instrumental view of technology? Could technology also reshape what the job-to-be-done is or provide opportunities to do ‘the job’ better?