Educational Technology Basics

1. Meaning of
Educational Technology
Lesson 1
Prepared by:
Brijida Charizma A. Navarro

3. Objectives
• To know what is educational technology;
• To compare educational technology with
technology in education;
• To compare and contrast educational
technology, technology integration and
educational media and know how each relate to
one another.

5. Activity

6. Analysis
• What is the most common?
• Are there words that are related?
• What conclusion can we draw on what most of
you think about educational technology?
• Is this common concept on educational
technology adequate?

7. Abstraction
Technology comes from the Greek word

8. Educational Technology
• Refers to the art or craft of responding to our
educational needs

9. More about technology
• Not limited to machines
• More of a planned, systematic method of
working to achieve planned outcomes
• Process not a product

10. More of technology….
• Applied side of scientific development(Dale,
1969)
• Any valid and reliable process or procedure that
is derived from basic research using scientific
method (wikipedia)

11. More of technology
• All ways people use their inventions and
discoveries to satisfy their needs and desires.

13. Educational Technology
Complex, integrated process involving
For analyzing problems and devising,
implementing, evaluating and
managing solutions to those
problems involved in all aspects of
human learning.

14. Educational technology
“Consists of the designs and environments that
engage learners and reliable technique or
method for engaging learning such as cognitive
learning strategies and critical thinking skills.”
- Jonassen, et. Al, 1999

15. Educational technology
“is a theory about how problems in human
learning are identified and solved.”
-Jonassen et. Al, 1999
Moreover…
EdTech has an integrated set of principles that
explain and predict observed events.

16. Educational Technology
“is a field involved in applying a complex,
integrated process to analyze and solve
problems in human learning.”

18. In summary….
Educational technology is the application of
scientific findings in our method, process or
procedure of working in the field of education in
order to effect learning. It embraces curriculum,
instructional design, environment, theories of
teaching-learning.

19. Other terms associated with
edtech
• Technology in education
• Instructional technology
• Technology integration in education books
• Educational media

20. ARE THEY
SYNONYMOUS?

21. Technology in education
• Application of technology to any of those
processes involved in operating the institutions
which house the educational enterprise.

22. Instructional technology
• Part of edtech
• Concerned with instruction
• Systematic way of designing, carrying out and
evaluating the total process of learning and
teaching in terms of specific objectives.

23. Technology integration
• Using learning technologies to introduce,
reinforce, supplement and extend skills.

24. Educational media
• Channels or avenues or instruments of
communication
• Books
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Radio
• TV
• internet

25. Reference
Educational Technology 1
©2008
Brenda B. Corpuz, PhD
Paz I. Lucido, PhD
Lorimar Publishing

26. Online References
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

27. Online References
• http://www.wordle.net/