EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

Lesson 1: A Review of Educational Technology 1

The Educational Technology 1 has surely help the learners to be more active, equipped and more aware about integrating technology to education because they are exposed on hands-on learning. Because of these, there is now an enhancement with regards to student's ability and knowledge when it comes to the modern technology.

Moreover, Educational Technology 1 also showed the 4 phases of application of educational technology in teaching-and learning and these are:

1.             Setting of learning objectives

2.             Designing specific learning experiences

3.             Evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experiences

4.             Revision as needed of the whole teaching-learning process, or elements of it, for further improvement of future instructional activities. 

 Furthermore, Educational Technology also refined the difference between educational technology and other related concepts which gives confusion to the students and these are: instructional technology which is different from school management and uses technology in instruction, educational media which uses equipment and materials apart the teacher himself/herself and the last is the audiovisuals aids which uses learning media to stir the senses of the learners.

            According to the cone of experience of Edgar Dale, people generally remember 90% of what they do. That’s why the involvement of the students is really important. Moreover, because the learners already experience how to utilized the technology in learning. Learning becomes more interactive and more meaningful. Student are able to retain the things they learn and last longer in their memories.

            With the help of technology it teaching becomes more enjoyable, learning can never be boring because learners can visualize as well as grasp the concept well, especially those visual learners. Also it helps students to be more aware of what technology can bring them and how to utilize it in a useful manner. As a teacher we should  also  be responsible o how our students deal with technology for we all know that though it has good effect it also has a variety of disadvantages.

            Learning how to integrate technology is really useful because learners already know how to utilize technology. Also, the learners of today are already knowledgeable when it comes to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and knows how to create and edit pictures and videos and there times they are more knowledgeable than their teachers.