Educational technology, sometimes shortened to EduTech or EdTech, is a wide field. Therefore, one can find many definitions, some of which are conflicting. Educational technology as an academic field can be considered either as a design science or as a collection of different research interests addressing fundamental issues of learning, teaching and social organization. This slideshow presentation contains the important information about the importance of technology in the field of education.

3. I’m Sofia Jean Cerdan Alayon, 19 years of
age and presently living here in Brooke’s
Point Palawan. I’m third year college
taking Bachelor of Elementary Education
at Palawan State University. Life to me
means friends and family who you can
trust and who trusts you. I am pretty
much on the happy side of life, but like all
teens I do have my “days of”. That means
I do have some sad days or depressed
days. I have a few friends here that sort
of look out for me and when I am having a
bad day, I have someone here at school to
talk to. I make my school days go by
thinking of either the next hour or what I
will do when I get home or on the
weekend.

4. I am Aira Marie Bermil Apuyan, 19
years old and I lived in Balacan
Pangobilian, Brooke’s Point Palawan.
I’m studying at Palawan State
University 3rd year, and taking
Bachelor of Elementary Education.
I hope that this portfolio will help
you about the important
information about Educational
Technology.

6. Educational technology, sometimes shortened
to EduTech or EdTech, is a wide field. Therefore, one
can find many definitions, some of which are conflicting.
Educational technology as an academic field can be
considered either as a design science or as a collection
of different research interests addressing fundamental
issues of learning, teaching and social organization.
Educational technology as practice refers to any form of
teaching and learning that makes use of technology.
Nevertheless, there are a few features on which most
researchers and practitioners might agree:

7. •Use of technology is principled: Technology means
the systematic application of scientific knowledge to
practical tasks. Therefore, educational technology is
based on theoretical knowledge drawn from different
disciplines plus experiential knowledge drawn from
educational practice.
•Educational technology aims to improve education.
Technology should facilitate learning processes and
increase performance of the educational system as it
regards to effectiveness and/or efficiency.

9. Technology these days has advanced our lifestyle. Things
have become so easy. Technology is being used
everywhere and in everything. Several devices have been
introduced like laptops and tablets. Each of them have
their own versions with even more advanced apps. Such
devices help us finish loads of work with ease, but using
such devices even in fields of education might affect the
habits of students. Schools have started introducing the
idea of using tablets for taking down notes, writing simple
tests and completing their projects. This gets the mind of
a student completely in technology and they tend to
forget the use of books.

10. Earlier students did not have the idea of using
internet to browse information about different
topics and were dependent completely on books
which resulted in a very good vocabulary, but
students these days do not have much of a good
vocabulary.
They start to expect everything just by a
touch on the screen. The students finish their
work just for the sake of it and actually don't
show any interest in it. Technology is good enough
provided it is used in the right field and in the
right age.

12. The systematic approach to teaching provides a method
for the functional organization and development of
instruction. This method applies to preparation of
materials for classroom use, as well as for print and
non-print media. Inputs to the systems approach include
well defined objectives, analysis of the intended
audience, special criteria desired by the customer,
analysis and use of existing resources, and a team of
instructional system specialists, subject matter experts,
writers, and visual specialists. Outputs are functional
relations trees; functional block diagrams, a teaching
sequence chart, and frames.

13. The system approach views the entire
educational program as a system of interrelated
parts. It is an orchestrated learning pattern with
all parts harmoniously integrated in to the whole:
the school, the teacher, the students, the
objectives, the media, the materials, and
assessment tools and procedures. Such an
approach integrates the older, more familiar
methods and tools of instruction with the new
ones such as the computer.

15. 1. Educational technology has provided a
scientific base to the educational theory and
practice. It has transformed a passive
classroom to an active and interactive
classroom, with audio-visuals, charts and
models, smart classrooms and e-learning
room which has drastically motivated and
increased the attention level of the students.

16. 2. The introduction of educational technology has
modernised the teaching-learning climate of the
educational institutions. The learners to be exposed
to professionally designed programmes on video or
computers.
3. Educational technology has helped and
supplemented the teachers in their instructional
programmes through the structured lessons for
remedial, enrichment or drill purposes. The learners
get training for self instruction and teachers are
relieved of the burden of routine repetition for
exercise and revision purposes.

17. 4. Through a systematic organisation of content and
instructional materials, educational technology has
provided well-integrated structured materials for
teachers thus saving a lot of their time which in turn may
be utilized for creative work and quality improvement.
5. The training and use of educational technology
contributes towards the professional growth of teachers.
It equips them in the use of scientific methods for solving
educational and administrative problems. It adds to the
teaching competence of teachers and inculcates a
scientific outlook and scientific temper in teachers and
students.

18. 6. Educational technology has improved the
teaching-learning process and made it more
effective and process oriented. Television, Radio,
V.C.R, Computers and LCD projectors etc. have
enriched and facilitated effective transmission of
knowledge.
7. Educational technology has not only maintained
the standards of education but also improved the
ways of teaching by giving it Teaching Aids and
Programmed Instructional Material.

19. 8.echanism of feedback devices for modification of
teaching-learning behaviour have produced
effective teachers in the teacher-training institutes.
9. Students who appear for higher or competitive
examinations have been benefitted by educational
programmes on T.V, Radio and Internet.
10. Educational technology has opened up new
fields of educational researches in the field of
examination process, evaluation and classroom-
teaching.

20. 11. Educational technology has provided practices
and strategies that help teachers to teach
according to individual differences of learners.
12. Educational technology has provided scientific
foundation to education through the theories of
learning and intelligence.

21. Thus educational technology is required in
each and every aspect of teaching learning
process. Educational technology serves all the
purposes for modern education. Education
today can’t go far without the help of
educational technology. The innovations of
technology in the field of education have done
wonders to educational process. It has not only
maintained the structure but also improved the
nature of the educational process.

23. Today’s generation of students are growing up
in a digital world. Using digital devices is a huge
part of their everyday experience out of school.
Through Google they have access to a wide
wealth of digital information, content and
resources. With all of this so intrinsic to their
‘outside school’ experience, the challenge for
the teaching profession is how to harness all
this for learning within the classroom and at
home.

24. This generation of ‘digital natives’ has much
lower need for libraries of physical content for
example, the traditional resource used by
students half a generation ago. Learning styles
are changing and teachers need to adapt their
teaching styles accordingly.
One crucial question is will this new technology
actually improve education? The impact of ICT on
learning outcomes has been inconclusive, billions
of pounds/euros spent – but is generally difficult
to evaluate effectiveness in terms of improved
results.

25. Nonetheless there are outcomes that are
conclusive, and which indirectly impact on
learning outcomes. These include improvements
in:
•Engagement
•Motivation
•Independent learning
•Parental engagement
•Student and staff attendance and punctuality
•Extending the children’s learning time

26. With the change in learning styles, the role of the
teacher is changing too; as well as being a
presenter of lesson material; they also assume the
role of facilitator/coach in an increasingly
collaborative learning environment.
These two key styles of learning; presenting and
collaborating; link directly to some of the different
types of technology employed in the classroom.
Interactive White Boards have been the bastion of
the presenting style of learning, where the teacher
is at front of class, and all students are involved in
interactive learning.

28. Dale's "Cone of Experience," which he
intended to provide an intuitive model of the
concreteness of various kinds of audio-visual
media, has been widely misrepresented. Often
referred to as the "Cone of Learning," it purports
to inform viewers of how much people remember
based on how they encounter information. However,
Dale included no numbers and did not base his cone
on scientific research, and he also warned readers
not to take the cone too seriously.The numbers
originated from 1967, when a Mobile oil company
employee named D. G. Treichler published a non-
scholarly article in an audio magazine titled Film and
Audio-Visual Communications.

31. Concept learning is one major learning type. While
teaching simple concepts with clear instances is not that
difficult, teaching concepts border cases is difficult, and
teaching complex concepts remains a major challenge.
“ Psychologists use the term concept formation, or
concept learning, to refer to the development of the
ability to respond to common features of categories of
objects or events. Concepts are mental categories for
objects, events, or ideas that have a common set of
features” (Exploring Psychology retrieved, 17:17, 15
September 2006 (MEST))

32. Concept learning encompasses learning how to
discriminate and categorize things (with critical
attributes). It also involves recall of instances,
integration of new examples and sub-categorization.
Concept formation is not related to simple recall, it
must be constructed

34. Educational technology 2 is concerned with “Integrating
Technology into Teaching and Learning.” Specifically
this is focused on introducing, reinforcing, supplementing
and extending the knowledge and skills to learners so
that they can become exemplary users of educational
technology. Mainly directed to student teachers, also
professional teachers who may wish to update their
knowledge of educational technology, it is our goal that
this course can help our target learners to weave
technology in teaching with software (computer
programmed learning materials) becoming a natural
extension of their learning tools.

35. In essence, the course aims to infuse
technology in the student-teachers training, helping
them to adapt and meet rapid and continuing
technological changes particularly in the thriving
global information and communication technology
(ICT) environment.

36. More specifically, the course objectives are:
• To provide education in the use of technology in
instruction by providing knowledge and skills on
technology integration-in-instruction to learners
• To impart learning experiences in instructional
technology-supported instructional planning
• To acquaint students on information technology or
IT- related learning theories with the computer as a
tutor
• To learn to use and evaluate computer-based
educational resources

37. • To engage learners on practical technology
integration issues including managing IT
classrooms, use of the internet for learning,
cooperative learning through the use of information
technology, etc.
While the course is primarily intended for the
use of student-teachers, it can also be of great
use to professional teachers, school administrators,
teacher educators, and in fact anyone who is
interested on how information technology can be
used to improve not only instruction but the school
management and curriculum.

39. Educational technology like computer is said to be
a big help to many of us because it makes our
work easier. as a matter of fact these new
technologies are already changing our lives. it is
now possible for us to teach a mute and a deaf
student using this gadget. In that way they will be
motivated to learn though they have this inabilities
,it is all because of what this technology can do to
make the learning more fun, not just those people
but also those ordinary people.

40. Adding to the technology sophistication of
the learner, educational technology 1 fitting refined
the distinction between educational technology and
other concepts, such as instructional technology
(which is the use of technology and instruction,
different from school management), educational
media (or equipment and materials, apart from the
teacher himself), audio visual aids (or learning
media to stir the senses for more effective
learning).

41. In sum, educational technology served:
• To orient the learner to the pervasiveness of
educational technology in society.
• To lend familiarization on how educational
technology can be utilized as media for the avenues
teaching-learning process in this school.
• To uplift the learner to human learning through the
use of learning technology.
• To impart skills in planning, designing, using and
evaluating the technology-enriched teaching-learning
process.

43. Educational technology is indeed very helpful
to us. But it should not be abused nor be used in
a wrong way because i believe that these
technologies are not invented to destroy nor to
degrade all humanity rather these are being
invented to help us in all aspect of our lives.
In addition, students should be taught how to
use it properly. But teaching alone may not be
enough for them to learn the teacher should also
let their students experience a thing in order for
them understand what it is all about.

44. Computer should not just be used on playing
games, posting nude photos and etc which
could deprive other's rights. Rather it used be
used in a correct way. instead of playing online
games why don’t we Google our assignment
over the net? of just simply visit the
educational website, in that way we could gain
knowledge.