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    Educational technology refers to using technology to help people learn. It involves analyzing learning problems and finding technological solutions. Some key aspects of educational technology include instructional technology, which focuses on applying technology to instruction, and technology integration, which means using technology to supplement and reinforce learning. Educational technology can engage learners through designs and environments that promote active, constructive learning. It aims to distribute cognitive responsibility between learners and the technologies used.

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    Educational technology refers to using technology to help people learn. It involves analyzing learning problems and finding technological solutions. Some key aspects of educational technology include instructional technology, which focuses on applying technology to instruction, and technology integration, which means using technology to supplement and reinforce learning. Educational technology can engage learners through designs and environments that promote active, constructive learning. It aims to distribute cognitive responsibility between learners and the technologies used.

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    Educational technology refers to using technology to help people learn. It involves analyzing learning problems and finding technological solutions. Some key aspects of educational technology include instructional technology, which focuses on applying technology to instruction, and technology integration, which means using technology to supplement and reinforce learning. Educational technology can engage learners through designs and environments that promote active, constructive learning. It aims to distribute cognitive responsibility between learners and the technologies used.

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    Educational

    Technology
    Learning Episode 1:

    Meaning of Educational
    Technology
    “Technology is more than hardware.
    Technology consists of the designs and the
    environments that engage learners.”
    - D. Jonassen
    • The word "technology " comes from
    the 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.
    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology
    Based from Dale 1969
    • Technology also refers to any valid and
    reliable process or procedure that is derived
    from basic research using the scientifc
    method.

    Based from Wikipedia


    • Technology refers to “all the ways people
    use their inventions and discoveries to satisfy
    their needs and desires.”

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Based from The world Book
    Encyclopedia, Vol. 19
    • So, educational technology refers
    to how people use their inventions
    and discoveries to satisfy their
    educational needs and desires, i.
    e. learning.

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Based from In the Definition of Educational
    Technology

    • 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.”

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Based from David H. Jonassen
    • 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.

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Based from David H. Jonassen
    • Is a profession like teaching. It is made
    up of organized effort to implement
    the theory, intellectual technique and
    practical application of educational
    technology.

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Based from Lucido and Borabo
    • 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.

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Other terms that are associated with Educational
    Technology

    • Technology in education
    • Instructional technology
    • Technology integration in education books,
    educational media

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Technology in Education
    “The application of technology to any of
    those processes involved in operating
    the institutions in which house the
    educational enterprise. It includes the
    applicationof technology to food,
    health, finance, scheduling, grade,
    reporting and other processes which
    support education within institutions.”

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    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.”

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    Technology Integration

    • “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.”

    Learning Episode 1-Meaning of Educational Technology


    In a ½ crosswise, define the
    following terminologies
    listed below:
    1. Educational Technology
    2. Technology in Education
    3. Instructional Technology
    4. Technology Integration in
    Education
    Different Concepts of Technology

    A. Technology as the use of gadgets, tools,


    or equipment to perform a task
    expediently and efficiently

    • Students use their cellphones to tell


    their parents that they will come
    home late because they will practice
    for a play.

    • Cellphones are used to


    communicate to reach the faster
    and smoother.
    • A teacher can ask her students to
    inform her about their progress in
    class through email, which both the
    teacher and the students can readily
    access.
    • A student uses printer to get a copy
    of his paper to be submitted to the
    teacher easily and neatly.
    • Students can send their paper via
    electronic mail to the teacher to
    meet the deadline for submission.
    B. Technology as the collection of
    tools, including machinery,
    modifications, arrangement and
    procedures

    • This refers to the reliable devices that


    enable one to make presentations
    repeatedly.

    • Teachers and students show


    PowerPoint presentation using the
    computer and LCD to enhance
    teaching and learning.
    • Other materials are digital storytelling
    and games which can be repeatedly
    used in class discussions. Digital story
    telling immerses the learner into the
    dynamics of digital communication
    and self-expression. It includes a
    collection of photo stories and
    arranged sequentially to capture
    certain events in one’s life like a
    memorable field trip in a factory,
    celebrating the school’s foundation
    day an communicating through the
    use of television or computer.
    C. Other Gadgets as Technology
    • Some people need to use gadgets or
    tools to perform home chores faster
    like washing machines, rice cooker,
    hair blower.
    • A student uses a dryer to facilitate
    styling a newly shampooed hair before
    coming to class.
    • Classroom in schools are equipped
    with electric fans to provide a
    well-ventilated and convenient
    environment.
    C. The Teacher as a Technology
    • Teacher facilitates learning through
    the sue of varied instructional materials
    like books, the blackboard, magazines,
    newspapers, library materials and
    visual aids.

    • Teacher creates situations through the


    use or a repertoire of teaching
    methods and strategies to facilitate
    learning.
    • Teachers use :
    • Teachers develop modules for
    students’ learning depending upon
    their ability levels. Modules are also
    used for individualized study or
    independent activity when the
    teacher is unable to meet the class
    due to suspension of classes.

    • In evaluating the students, the teacher


    may use rating scale, scorecard,
    checklist, tests and rubrics.
    • There is a need to change from the
    traditional roles of
    technology-as-teachers to
    technology-as-partner in the learning
    process.

    • Technology can support


    meaning-making by students. This will
    happen when students learn with
    technology.
    • The following assumptions are agreed upon about
    technology:
    Technology is more than hardware. It is made up
    of any reliable technique or method of engaging
    learning, such as cognitive learning strategies an
    critical thinking.
    Learning technologies can be any environment
    or definable set of activities that engage learners
    in active, constructive, intentional, and authentic
    learning. Technology can be introduced in a
    form of game.
    Technologies are not simply conveyors or
    communicators of meaning but they can also
    serve as resource materials as reflection and
    other thinking skills.
    • The students can download researches about
    learning styles as well as questionnaire about
    learning styles. In this case, they undertake
    activities as a result of downloading materials
    from the computer learning styles by
    downloading.
    4. Technologies support learning when:
    • They fulfill a learning need.
    Ex. Students download sample rubrics to
    enable them to create their own rubric.
    • Interactions with technologies as
    learner-initiated and learner-controlled.
    Ex. Powerpoint. When slides are presented,
    the class can easily understand the ideas being
    presented.
    5. Interactions with technologies are conceptually
    and intellectually engaging.
    6. Technologies should function as intellectual
    tool kits that enable learners to build more
    meaningful personal interpretations and
    representations of the world. This tool kits must
    support the intellectual functions that are
    required by a course of study.

    7. Learners and technologies should be


    intellectual partners in the learning process,
    where cognitive responsibility for performing is
    distributed to the part of the partnership that
    perform it the best.

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