Technology and Spiritual Education

In July of 2008 I decided that I wanted to get a job with CES (the Church Educational System for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), or some other part of the church IT infrastructure, so I started writing a series of posts focused on the use of web technologies to augments spiritual education.  Below is my outline.  I will link to the posts themselves as I write them.

I hope that my musings and pondering will paint a portrait of the potential of web technology to augment the amazing spiritual education that is going on right now in the church.   I am writing it mostly with CES in mind, but I hope teachers everywhere will gain some insight into tools that exist, tools that God has inspired men to create, that will help us get the Gospel into our own hearts, and the hearts of those we teach.

Part I: Why Technology is Important in Religious Education

• Mission of the Church and Technology
• Current Teaching Emphasis for CES

Part II: Web 2.0 and Spiritual Education (These posts will be partly based off of Steve Hargadon’s “Web 2.0 is the Future of Education,” but modified for Spiritual Education)

• Digital Spiritual Learners
• The Power of Web Publishing in Spiritual Education
• Tidal Wave of Information (From Learning about to Learning to Be)
• Everything is Participative
• The Power of Collaboration
• Social Web

Part III: Tools – The applications that have the potential to change Education!

• Video
• Music
• Writing
• Communication
• Social
• Distance Ed
• Mobile – Learning Everywhere

For more posts check out my “Seminary Tools” Category.