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Lesson 1: Understanding Educational Technology

The document discusses educational technology and its role in 21st century learning. It defines educational technology as the study and ethical practice of using technology to facilitate learning and performance. It lists critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, information literacy, media literacy, technology literacy, flexibility, leadership, initiative, productivity and social skills as important 21st century skills that educational technology can help develop. The document also outlines various instructional technologies and media that can be used in education like print materials, graphics, sound recordings, film/TV, videos and computer-based learning.

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Lesson 1: Understanding Educational Technology

The document discusses educational technology and its role in 21st century learning. It defines educational technology as the study and ethical practice of using technology to facilitate learning and performance. It lists critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, information literacy, media literacy, technology literacy, flexibility, leadership, initiative, productivity and social skills as important 21st century skills that educational technology can help develop. The document also outlines various instructional technologies and media that can be used in education like print materials, graphics, sound recordings, film/TV, videos and computer-based learning.

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Lesson 1:

UNDERSTANDING
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
The 21st century is an age when
change is unparalleled. It is an
information-based and technology
driven era where thinking and
learning has become borderless. It
is a time when the use of electronic
media has dominated many people’s
lives. Time and space no longer pose
a problem as they can now be
bridged by technology.
Marshall Mcluhan
Educator, Journalist
21ST CENTURY SKILLS
Learning Skills
1. Critical Thinking
2. Creativity
3. Collaboration
4. Communication
Literacy Skills
5. Information
6. Media
7. Technology
Life Skills
8. Flexibility
9. Leadership
10. Initiative
11. Productivity
12. Social
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
- is the study and ethical practice
of facilitating learning and
improving performance by creating,
using, and managing appropriate
technological processes and
resources. (AECT, 2004)
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
- is the application of
technology in the educative
process that takes place in
education institutions.
TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
- is the application of
technology in the operation of
education institution.
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

- is refers to aspects of
educational technology that
are concerned with
instructions.
According to research, people tend to remember;

• 10 % of what they read

• 20 % of what they hear

• 30 % of what they see

• 50 % of what they hear and see.

• 70-90 % of what we see, hear and experience.


BENEFITS FROM USING
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

1. Increase in
the students’
quality of
learning.
2. Decrease
in the time
spent in
instruction.
3. Arouse and sustain the interest and attention of
the students.
4 . Make learning more interactive.
5. Increase efficiency of teachers.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
1. Appropriateness
2. Authenticity
3. Interest and appeal to users
4. Organization and balance
5. Cost effectiveness/economy
6. Breadth
7. Ease of handling
Why use media in
instruction?
Methods of teaching are
instructional techniques
that facilitate learning
while
Media are the means of
implementing those
methods.
COMMONLY USED MEDIA/MATERIALS
FOR INSTRUCTION
1. Print media/materials – considered to
be the most dominant and the primary
means of communicating subject matter
to students.
- the principal aid to teaching and
learning.
EXAMPLES OF PRINT
MEDIA/MATERIALS:
 books
 textbooks
 periodicals such as newspapers,
magazines, journals, handouts,
manuals
2. Still pictures and
graphics – useful means of
expressing ideas; employ
lines, patterns, colors and
shades to convey
information.
EXAMPLES OF STILL PICTURES
AND GRAPHICS
 pictures
 graphics such as maps, diagrams, charts/graphs,
tables, posters and cartoons
 visual display devices such as chalkboards,
whiteboard, magnetic board, bulletin boards
 projection devices such as slide and filmstrip
projectors, opaque projectors and overhead
projectors.
3. Sound recordings and
radio
Phonograph records
Audiotapes
Compact disc
Radio
4. Film and
Television
5. Video recording
Videotapes and discs
Cables and satellites
Camcorders
6. Computer-based learning (CBL) –
enables the students to study almost
anytime and convenient locations and
with varying ability levels; provides
multimedia, interactive instruction,
practice and testing that in turn helps
teachers further in terms of diagnosis and
guidance.

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