EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

- An Overview

Reference Book: Educational Technology 1

Brenda Corpuz; Paz I. Lucido
Contents:
 What is Technology?
 What is Educational Technology?
 Terms Associated with Educational
Technology
 Technology in Education
 Instructional Technology
 Technology Integration in Education
 Educational Media
 Roles of Educational Technology in Learning

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 To understand the meaning of
educational technology, it may be good to
begin with the meaning of technology.

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What is technology?

 Comes from the Greek word “techne”

which means “craft or art”.

 Not only refers to machines …also…

 It is a “planned, systematic method of

working to achieve planned outcomes – a
process NOT a product.
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What is technology?

 It is the applied side of scientific

development -Dale, 1969

 All the ways people use their inventions and

discoveries to satisfy their needs and
desires
-The World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 19

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 Therefore, we can say that educational
technology refers to how people use their
inventions and discoveries to satisfy their
educational needs and desires, i.e. learning

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What is educational technology?

 A complex, integrated process involving

 People
 Procedures
 Ideas
 Devices and
 Organization

For analyzing problems and

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What is educational technology?

 Devising
 Implementing
 Evaluating and
 Managing

Solutions to those problems, involved in all

aspects of human learning.
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1977.
The definition of educational technology, 1-16, Washington D.C: AECT

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What is educational technology?

 A field involved in applying a complex,

integrated process to analyze and solve
problems in human learning.
-David H. Jonassen, et al 1999
 A field study which is concerned with the
practice of using educational methods and
resources for the ultimate goal of facilitating
the learning process.
-Lucido and Borabo, 1997
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What is educational technology?

 a profession like teaching.

 It is made up of organized effort to implement
the theory, intellectual technique and practical
application of educational technology.

-David H. Jonassen, et al 1999

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 From the definitions given, we can say
that educational technology is a very broad
term. It is the application of scientific
findings in our method, process or procedure
of working in the field of education. It
embraces curriculum and instructional
design, learning, environment and theories
of teaching-learning.

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Terms Associated with
Educational Technology
 Technology in Education

 Instructional Technology

 Technology Integration in Education

 Educational Media

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Terms Associated…

 Technology in Education
 The application of technology to any of those
processes involved in operating the institutions
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. -David H. Jonassen, et.al, 1999

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Terms Associated…

 Instructional Technology
 Refers to those aspects of educational
technology that “are concerned with instruction
as contrasted to designs and operations of
educational institutions.

 A systematic way of designing, carrying out and

evaluating the total process of learning and
teaching in terms of specific objectives.
- Lucido and Borabo, 1997
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Terms Associated…

 Technology Integration
 Using “learning technologies to introduce,
reinforce, supplement and extend skills.

 the use of technology resources (computers,

digital cameras, CD-ROMs, software
applications, the Internet, etc.) in daily
classroom practices, and in the management of
a school. - Schaffner, 2010

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Terms Associated…

 Educational Media
 Are channels or avenues or instruments of
communications.
Examples:
 Books
 Magazines
 Newspapers
 Radio
 Television
 Internet

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 Roles of
Educational Technology
in Learning

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 In this case, technology will not be
mere delivery vehicle for content. Rather it
is used as facilitator of thinking and
knowledge construction.

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 From the traditional point of view,
technology serves as source and presenter
of knowledge. It is assumed that “
knowledge is embedded in the technology”

From the constructivist point of view,

educational technology serves as learning
tools that learners with. It engages learners
in active, constructive, intentional, authentic
and cooperative learning.
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Roles…

From constructivist perspective, the following

are roles of technology in learning:

 Technology as tools to support

knowledge construction:
 For representing learners’ ideas, understandings
and beliefs.
 For producing organized, multimedia knowledge
bases by learners.

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Roles…

 Technology as information vehicles for

exploring knowledge to support
learning-by-constructing:
 For accessing needed information
 For comparing perspectives, beliefs and world
views.

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Roles…

 Technology as context to support

learning-by-doing:
 For representing and simulating meaningful
real-world problems, situations and contexts.
 For representing beliefs, perspectives,
arguments and stories of others.
 For defining a safe, controllable problem for
student thinking.

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Roles…

 Technology as a social medium to

support learning by conversing:
 For collaborating with others.
 For discussing, arguing and building consensus
among members of a community.
 For supporting discourse among knowledge-
building communities.

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Roles…
 Technology as intellectual partner (Jonassen
1996) to support learning-by-reflecting:

 For helping learners to articulate and represent what

they know.
 For reflecting on what they have learned and how they
came to know it.
 For supporting learners internal negotiations and
meaning making.
 For constructing personal representations of meaning
 For supporting mindful thinking
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