1. Content Integration and meaningful teaching

1.5. Meaningful learning

The following figure displays the characteristics of meaningful learning.

 

Figure Characteristics of meaningful learning (Source: Howland, et.al., 2014, p.3)

It is important to realise that educational technology should be not used as a repository or reproduction of a textbook but has to provide space for deeper learning, space for developing new skills and as Howland et al (2014) suggest we should think about technologies as support rather than a source, "as learning tools that students learn with, not from".