An innovative technology that brings new habits and establishes new techniques of work is always something that we reject at first... It disrupts our daily life and might kill our jobs.
What is it?
When a new technology comes along, the changes that happen in the environment it emerged in, can make people happy or sad according to the changes that will occur as this new technology might destroy the competences in place or enhance them.
One example that is considered a Disruptive Technology is KODAK. It was a film making company that used chemicals to develop films. This company was ruined by the advent of digital cameras that replaced the chemical films.
Mobile learning (mLearning) is a disruptive technology that swept away people's habits to set in a new lifestyle to include new skills, attitudes, values, and abilities. Mobile learning is a Disruptive Technology for many existing tools and jobs, it replaced many institutions, positions and educational believes to see us settle with new concepts that was considered years ago untouchable, and that is the role of Disruptive Technology.
There are several Disruptive Technology that are replacing old ones and that you can read in the infographic bellow, retrieved from this link, where Disruptive Technology is explained in 5 stages of change:
When it first emerged with the KODAK example;
When it connected to the internet;
When new tools had to replace the old ones;
When AI was integrated;
When Virtual Reality was created.
What effect it has on learning designers?
Why do we have to talk about Disruptive Technology? Well, it is this strategy that learning designers can use to build innovative learning instances that are disruptive: create new techniques to replace the "old fashioned" ones which will allow the emergence of new perspectives and new approaches in learning disrupt to stand out of the crowd.
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