A Review of Technology in Teaching and Learning
Figure 12. Gartner Hype Cycle for New Technologies, 2019
Affordances of Technology Access to technology in education has allowed students and parents to connect to schools in innovative ways (Bordalba & Bochaca, 2019), to visit other countries without leaving their classroom (Vega-Hernandez, Patino-Alonso, & Galindo-Villardon, 2018) and have access to information (Hartmann, Braae, Pedersen, & Khalid, 2017), at the touch of a button. In Australia, for example, Dawson (2008) commented on virtual excursions being of benefit in a science classroom, and in Ireland, access to a virtual 3D physics laboratory (Bogusevschi, Muntean, & Muntean, 2019) ensured students could conduct experiments without having access to full laboratory facilities. Other positive uses of technology, such as eportfolios, by pre-service teachers to document their learning journey are widespread (Egan, FitzGibbon, & Oldham, 2014) and the affordances of such a multi-media tool are well documented (Botterill & Warren, 2010; 35