“Technology
is more than hardware. Technology consists of the designs and the environments
that engage learners.” - D. Jonassen
Meaning
of Educational Technology
- The word "technology " comes from he greek word techne which means craft or art.
- Educational technology refers to the art or craft of responding to our educational needs
- Technology is not just machines. It is a "planned, systematic method of working to achieve planned outcomes-a process not a product.
Base
from Dale 1969
Based
from Wikipedia - Technology also refers to any valid and reliable process or procedure that is derived from basic research using the scientific method.
- Technology refers to “all the ways people use their inventions and discoveries to satisfy their needs and desires.”
- So, educational technology refers to how people use their inventions and discoveries to satisfy their educational needs and desires, i. e. learning.
- Educational technology is “a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solution to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.”
- Educational Technology “consists of designs and environments that engage learners and reliable technique and method for engaging learning such as cognitive learning strategies and critical thinking skills.”
- It is a theory about how problems in human learning are identified and solved.
- Is a field involved in applying a complex, integrated process to analyze and solve problems in human learning.
- Is a profession like teaching. It is made up of organized effort to implement the theory, intellectual technique and practical application of educational technology.
- Educational Technology is a field study which is concerned with the practice of using educational methods and resources for the ultimate goal of facilitating the learning process.
- Technology in education
- Instructional technology
- Technology integration in education books, educational media
- “The application of technology to any of those processes involved in operating the institutions in which house the educational enterprise. It includes the application of technology to food, health, finance, scheduling, grade, reporting and other processes which support education within institutions.”
Instructional Technology
- “Is a part of Educational Technology.”
- Refers to those aspects of educational technology that “are concerned with instruction as contrasted to designs and operations of educational institutions.”
- “Means learning technologies to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend skills.”
- “Technology is a part and parcel of instructional technology, which in turn is a part of educational technology.”
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