The document discusses various perspectives on educational technology and the forces shaping its perception. It notes that educational technology can be viewed differently by technophobes, technophiles, governments, academics, students and more. It also references the "blind men and an elephant" story to illustrate how there is no single agreed upon definition or understanding of educational technology due to these many perspectives. It encourages readers to think critically about why certain educational technologies are pursued and what goals they actually achieve.

1. Trends in
educational
Technology
But mainly about the forces affecting the perception of technology for education

2. Technology:The application of scientific
knowledge for practical purposes
Special usage: Machinery and equipment developed from such
scientific knowledge.
–The New Oxford American Dictionary

3. What is
practical
and to whom?

4. Educational technology:
The Buzz out there
MOOCsTabletsGamif
icationLearning
analyticsOpen3DPri
ntingWearableTec
hnology
NMC Horizon Report 2013 HiEd Edition

5. MOOCsLecture
captureVideoSocial
MediaMoodleePortf
olio
Educational technology:
The talks in orgs…

6. Educational
technology
Technophobes
Technophiles
Government
Management
Academics
Students
Designers
Technologists
…
E d u
c a t
i o n
a $ l
t e c
h n o
l o g
y
Educational technology:
…with no one form we can
agree upon

7. Educational technology:
The elephant in the room, full of blind people
–Wikipedia ”Blind men and an elephant”

8. Educational technology:
An example from
multiple perspectives
massive, money, more, mess, magnificent,
megalomaniac, mercy, meh, meritocracy,
machinelike, multichannel, motley,
monotonous, monetary, marketing,
monitoring, modular, moaning, misleading,
medium, mediocre, maximal, marxist,
magnetic
course, cool, cost effective, costly,
corrosive, calculative, casual, capitalist,
catastrophic, central, cerebral, change,
classic, cluttered, commitment,
community, conversational,
convincing, cozy, crash
open, online, OK, ooh-la-la, obese,
obervational, occasional, odd,
offshore, onetime, opportunistic,
oppose, orwellian, own
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/the-mooc-
moment-and-the-end-of-reform/

9. Do we stop to think
why and what then?

10. Read &
Think
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