Module Technology for Teaching and Learning

Title
Lesson No. 1
Lesson
Title THE NATURE, CONCEPTS AND TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES
Intended Students should be able to meet the following learning outcomes:
Learning  Understand the various views of educational technology.
Outcomes  Identify the benefits and impact of educational technology in teaching
learning.
 Explain how educational technologies influence teaching and learning

This lesson provides an overview on the nature and evolutions of educational

Description technology. It also discusses the impact, role and functions, importance and
of the benefits of educational technology into teaching and learning.
Lesson
Targets/ At the end of the lesson, students should be able to understand the following:
Objectives  Discuss the nature, concepts and important terminologies involving
educational technology.
 Recognize the impact, benefits and importance of educational technology in
teaching and learning.
 Identify the roles and functions of educational technology in our educational
system.
 Perform the given activities in this module.
 Famiiarize to the past history of educational technology.

Instructions:

a. On the table provided below, answer the following:

Questions Answer
How Do We Learn?

Activity
What is Learning Style?

What is Teaching and

Learning?

Why Use Technology?

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 b. Create Infographics when you hear the phrase Learning Environment.

c. Watch a video on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT-df_zdnfI) about the

technology. Make a graphic organizer to summarize your perspective from the
video about history of educational technology.

Note: Email your answer to profjohn@gmail.com. Deadline of Submission Oct 25,

2019

Learning Guide Questions

Analysis  How do educational technologies support the teachers into teachinig and
learning?
 How is it different when perceived by educators versus technologists?
 Can technology change education?

THE NATURE, CONCEPTS AND TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

The first idea of educational technology was related with the use of audio-visual
aids like chart, models, maps, specimen and concrete material. The word
educational technology was used as a replacement to audio-visual aids meant foe
direct teaching and learning.

Abstraction I. Definitions of Terms

Learning
 is a tranfer of knowledge that can be ensured only when all components of
the process have been incorporated into the learning event.

Teaching
 is a systematic, planned sequence of events that facilitates the

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 communication of an idea, concept, or skill to a learner.

Teaching and Learning

 comprise of process in which many internal and external variables interact as
the goal of knowledge or skill transfer is achieved.

Technology
 Technology ("science of craft", from Greek, techne, "art, skill, cunning of
hand") refers to methods, systems, and devices which are the result
of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes.
 Technology is a body of knowledge devoted to creating tools, processing
actions and the extracting of materials.
 Technology is also an application of science used to solve problems.

Instructional Technology
 defines as a subsystem of educational technology which helps the instructor
or the learner himself as a part of his self-learning or auto instruction bye
determining the media, methods and material for realization of the stipulated
instructional objectives in a given teaching-learning situation.

Information and Communications Technology

 ICT refers to technologies that provide access to information
through telecommunications. It is similar to Information Technology (IT), but
focuses primarily on communication technologies. This includes the Internet,
wireless networks, cell phones, and other communication mediums.

Educational Technology
 Educational Technology for educators, any media that can be used in
instruction. It might include printed media, models, projected and
nonprojected visuals, as well as audio, video, and digital media.
 Educational Technology is concerned with the scientific use of the available
human and non-human resources for solving various problems of education
(including instruction) for optimizing the result of the whole teaching-learning
process.
 Educational Technology any technology used by educators to support
teaching and learning.
 Educational Technology is the systematic application of scientific knowledge
about teaching-learning and conditions of learning to improve the efficiency
of teaching and training.
 Educational Technology in concerned with the application of modern skill and
techniques to requirements of educational training. This includes facilitation
of learning by manipulation of media and methods, and the control of
environment is so far as this reflects on learning.
 Educational Technology is a systematic approach to designing and
evaluating learning and teaching methods and methodologies and to the
application and exploiting of media and current knowledge of communication
techniques in education, both formal and informal.
 Educational Technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating
learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing

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 appropriate technological processes and resources.

II. Impact of Educational Technology

 Educational technology has transformed a passive classroom to an active
and interactive classroom, with audio-visuals, charts and models, smart
classrooms and e-learning room that has drastically motivated and increased
the attention level of the students.
 Educational technology has modernized the teaching-learning climate of the
educational institutions.
 Educational technology has improved the teaching-learning process and
made it more effective and process oriented. Internet, Computers and LCD
projectors etc. have enriched and facilitated effective transmission of
knowledge.
 Educational technology has opened up new fields of educational researches
in the field of examination process, evaluation and classroom teaching.
 Educational technology has provided practices and strategies that help
teachers to teach according to individual differences of learners.

III. Roles and Functions of Educational Technology

 Changes teacher’s and student’s role into positive directions
 Fosters the development of leadership abilities and teamwork
 Promotes higher -level thinking skills and student-centered instruction
 Inspires students and teachers by making learning exciting and interesting
 Increases students’ motivation, self-esteem, self-confidence and academic
achievement
 Supplies stimulating environments that encourage student involvement in the
learning process
 Expands classroom “walls” and links students and teachers in national and
international exchanges
 Offers students diversity, self-paced learning, and opportunities for individual
growth and self-expression
 Provides students with unique opportunities to apply skills and talents and to
interact with others in non-threatening environments
 Supplies information through multisensory delivery channels, allowing
students with various learning styles to assimilate and apply knowledge
 Supports new instructional approaches: cooperative learning, inquiry
approach,
 problem-based learning, project-based learning and multiple intelligences

IV. Benefits and Importance of Educational Technology

 Improves engagement. When technology is integrated into lessons,
students are expected to be more interested in the subjects they are
studying. Technology provides different opportunities to make learning more
fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching same things in new ways.
 Improves knowledge retention. Students, who are engaged and interested
in things they are studying, are expected to have a better knowledge
retention. Technology can help to encourage active participation in the
classroom which also is a very important factor for increased knowledge
retention. Different forms of technology can be used to experiment with and

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 decide what works best for students in terms of retaining their knowledge.
 Encourages individual learning. Technology provides great opportunities
for making learning more effective for everyone with different needs.
 Encourages collaboration. Students can practice collaboration skills by
getting involved in different online activities.
 Students can learn useful life skills through technology. By using
technology in the classroom, both teachers and students can develop skills
essential for the 21st century.
 Benefits for teachers. With countless online resources, technology can help
improve teaching. Teachers can use different apps or trusted online
resources to enhance the traditional ways of teaching and to keep students
more engaged.

V. Educational Technology: The Past

 Quill Pens and Slates (1600s) – Early one-room schoolhouses in the 1700s
and 1800s used these materials to teach students how to write and cipher.
 Primers (1700s) – The New England Primer remained the basic school text
for 100 years after its publication.
 Wall Charts (1826) – To save the cost of individual books, passages were
sometimes printed in large letters and hung for all to see in Lancastrian
schools.
 Models (1855) – With the introduction of kindergarted in Ws=isconsin,
models and materials were given to students to manipulate and to learn
from.
 Manipulatives (1901) –Maria Montesorri’s kinesthetic approach offered a
variety of manipulatives from which students could learn.
 Educational Museums (1904) – The visual education movement resulted in
educational museums with abundant visual displays.
 Films (1911) – After Edison’s invention of the motion picture projector, he
made films for use in the classroom.
 Radio (1929) – Ohio “School of the Air” broadcast instruction to homes.
 Multiple Media Used by Military Academy (1945) – Training used films,
sound, graphics, models, and print to help prepared recruits for war.
 Independent Television (1953) – university of Houston launches KUHT, the
first noncommercial educational station.
 Programmed Instruction (1957) – Programmed Instruction materials based
on Skinner’s behaviorism are used at the Mystic School in Masschussets.
 Personal Computer (1977) – The first microcomputer, the Apple, was created
by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
 Computer-Assisted Instruction (1980s) – Computer-assisted instruction
computers reaches its peak of popularity.
 Computer-based Technologies (1990s) – Video discs, CD-ROMs,
multimedia, digital presentations, interactive video, teleconferencing,
compressed video, and the Internet combine to greatly increase the
technologies available to enhance teaching and learning.
 Virtual Reality, Digital Assisatnts and Online Life (2000 and beyond):
o Digital representations of a given reality let teacher and student
“experience” it, example the inside of volcanic eruption.
o Intelligent agents help you interact with your equipment and

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 cyberspace.
o The intenet expands to include “live” audio and video, leading to
instruction anytime, anywhere.

Do These

Before you answer the question, watch the video clip about educational technology
applications through these links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIR3Jy9xuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7OCKDX3yIg

On the space provided below, identify the educational technology applications that
you can integrate in the classroom. State the significance of this application.

Applications Significance

Application

Note: Email your answer to profjohn@gmail.com. Deadline of Submission Oct 25,

2019