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• Educational Technology


  It is a broad field that encompasses practically all academic disciplines.
• Educational technology


  it is understood and discussed in different perspectives; hence it is difficult to define.
• Association for educational communications and technology (AECT) 


  They created a task force on definition and terminology with the primary function of providing structure and directions on the application of technology in education.
• 2004


  AECT came up with their revised definition of educational technology.
• "Educational Technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technology processes and resources"
• Educational Technology


  it is viewed as a process because it involves the systematic integration of technologys and their interralationships, into a complex, integrated process to anaylze problems and create new solutions.
• Merriam-webster dictionary


  Educational Technology is a process of a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes or series of actions that lead toward a particular result.
• Deschryver


  According to him, educational technology is based on theoretical knoweledge from different disciplines (communication, artificial, psychology, sociology, philosophy, artifical knowledge from educational practice.
• Educational Technologists


  Professionals in this field meet the academic vriteria and subscribe to the ethical standards of the profession.
• Educational technology and Instructional Technology


  Thses two terms are interchangebly used by practitioners in the fields
• Technology in Education


  It is the application of technology to any of those pracesses involved in operating the institutions which house the educational enterprise.
• Seels and Richey (1949)


  According to them, Instructional Technology is the theory and practice od design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes nd resources for learning.
• AECT


  Instructional technology is a subset of educational technology that deals directly with teaching and learning applications
• Johannes Gutenberg


  -1440

  -Printing press
• 1801


  Blackboards inAcademic Military Schools
• Whiteboard


  1960
• Pestolozzi


  use of real object within the classroom learning
• Froebel 


  He/They are /are the proponents of manipulated actual objects in class
• Thomas Edision


  invented the first mechanical phonograph cylinder sound recording machine
• Maria Montesori


  Use of Multi-sensory Materials in Teaching
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)


  began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools
• overhea projector

  it was widely used for lecture presentations during the late 1950s and early 1960s
• Charles Babbage


  he is an English Professor who designed the analytical engine which srved as the besic framwork of today's computer technolgy
• Taylor's Model, 1980


  TUTOR, TOOL, TUTEE
• Computer


  -it takes the role of a tutor when it is used to tech users specific skills or concepts
• Tutorial programs


  designed to guide users in acquiring and understanding a particular skill.
• Computer as a Tutor


  The computer takes the role of a tutor when it is used to teach users specific or concepts
• Computer as a Tool


  This involves the use of more general purpose applications such as word processing programs and database programs used in preparing reports and in organizing information
• Computer as a Tutee


  Users such as techers and students design programs that will instruct or dictate the computer what to do.
• System software


  -is a type of computer program that is designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs
• operating system


  allows the different components of the computer, such as its memory, disk storage devices and display output, to function together while allowing the user to run applications
• Application software

  System Software


  Two types of Software
• Application Software


  -consists of programs that perform specific tasks for users, such as a word processing program, e-mail program, or Web browser.
• System software


  -consists of the programs that control the operations of a computer and its devices
• Instructional Software


  design to assist in the delivery on intruction
• Instructional Software


  -The primary purpose of this is to support teaching and learning
• Five categories of Instructional Software

  1. Tutorials
  2. Simulation
  3. Drill-and-practice
  4. Educational games
  5. Exploratory environment
• Tutorials


  -a mode of instruction which involves a teacher and one or two students
• Simulations


  -it provides a controlled learning environment that repicates key elements for the real-world environments
• Simulation software


  -it designed so that the actions studet takes within the simulated environement produce results similar to those that would take place in the real-world