Thursday, January 10, 2013

LESSON 2 - Technology: Boon or Bane?

Instant coffee, instant noodles, fast foods, fast lane.... This is the reality of the world today as well as technology, as years passed by, technology is more advanced and still developing to fill the needs of the people around the globe. It is  a great blessing to our lives by means of communication, social awareness and it give us a wide range of knowledge to keep the fast pace of life.


Like in positive there is a negative...Devil or angel.....Black or white....As well as technology, nobody can dispute that it is a great blessing to all of us. But it is opt to us if we will used it in a very rude way.
Many definitions have been given by many authors about Educational technology, but this definition is what I like best."Educational Technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning". This definition, we can understand clearly what Educational Technology means.

Instructional technology, technology in education and educational media, are parts of Educational Technology, each parts has its own role to achieve learning.

Technology in education is the application of technology to any process involved in the operating institution of educational enterprise.

We must remember that educational technology is not just a tool or  a device it involves process, procedures and activities, instructional and curricular designs, learning environment and systems.