Educational technology refers to the use of all human inventions and discoveries to satisfy our educational need and desire learning. These inventions and discoveries can be devices, tools, equipment, activities, procedures and processes. Included among these human inventions are the various educational media.
Educational technology is more than instructional technology in the same way that education is more than instruction. Technology integration is part of instructional is part of instructional technology which, in turn, is a part of educational technology. Educational technology is different from technology in education. The latter refers to the application of technology in the operation of education institutions while the former refers to the application of technology in the educative process that takes place in such education institutions.
We were made to understand that educational technology is more than material for it also includes processes, procedures and activities, instructional and curricular designs, learning environment and systems.We think that educational technology includes only the recent human inventions like video, computer, CD-ROM and Internet as though the traditional tools like the chalkboard that teachers have been using for the years are not part.The chalkboard no matter how old is also a human invention and so definitely forms part of educational technology.In fact, even today every classroom has a chalkboard.The chalkboard remains to be popular equipment in the classroom.
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