Significance of Educational Technology

- Helps to release the teacher from the routine role of information giving

- More time for planning, arranging, and evaluating learning experiences and outcomes

- Creation of multi-media learning environments in the classroom

- Involvement of maximum senses

- Utilizes maxims of teaching

- Proceed from known to unknown

- Proceed from simple to complex

- Proceed from easy to difficult

- Proceed from concrete to abstract

- Proceed from particular to general

- Helps in better learning and retention

- Makes teaching learning attractive, inspirational, and effective

- Cater to individual differences

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DETERMINATION OF OBJECTIVES
– ET provides different methods and techniques for writing the instructional objectives.
– ET helps in fixing up of right objectives in the light of new advancement in science and technology.
DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING LEARNING MATERIALS
• Teaching learning materials will be able to modify behavior of a person, in order to make him a fit
person for the society. Here ET tries to discuss the essential techniques of developing software and
instructional material, like, programmed learning material, mass media material, PSI planning for
teaching and learning and preparation of lessons etc.
IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS
• ET make teaching and learning more purposive. ie , ET tries to discuss the concepts of teaching and
learning , analysis of teaching and learning process, variables of teaching, phases of teaching ,levels
of teaching, and theories and principles of teaching and learning.
DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES
• ET tries to discuss the ways and means of discovering selecting and developing suitable strategies of
teaching in terms of the optimum learning and available teaching learning resources, the availability
of different types teaching methods, devices and models of teaching, along with their appropriate
selection and use for the optimum result.
TEACHER PREPARATION OR TEACHER TRAINING
• ET takes care of proper preparation of teachers for exercising their complex responsibilities. For this
purpose ET includes topics like models of student’s teaching, micro teaching, simulated teaching,
team teaching, modification of teacher behavior etc.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRICULUM
• ET concerned with the means and ways for the selection of suitable learning experiences or contents,
organization of these contents (activities) in a suitable frame work inorder to bring out most effective
 instruction and thus analyse the suitability of the curriculum, in relation to the objectives, means,
materials and devices of evaluation.
DEVELOPMENT, SELECTION AND USE OF APPROPRIATE A-V AIDS
• ET is concerned with A-V aids used for educational purpose, their proper selection suiting to the
particular teaching learning situation their development and production in view of the available
resources and problem faced in teaching learning act, AV methods of presentation and dissemination
of information, their proper storage and retrieval and consideration about their cost effectiveness and
effective utilization.
UTILIZATION OF SUBSYSTEM OF EDUCATION
• ET includes the study of different subsystems, their operations and process in terms of input and
output, the needed development in the working of subsystems in view of the economy, output and
functionality of the system in an effective way by specifying the respective role of the man , machine
and media in relation to the process of teaching and learning.
PROPER USE OF HARDWARES AND SOFTWARES
• ET tries to describe these resources in terms of their specific functions and applicability in a particular
teaching learning situation, their selection, proper handling and maintenance, their preparation and
development, the ways and means of their optimum use in formal education on the individual and
collective basis.
TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL FEEDBACK AND CONTROL THROUGH EVALUATION
• Control over the process of teaching-learning by planning and devising suitable tools and devices for
the continuous evaluation of the process of teaching- learning. Such evaluation provides an
appropriate feedback for the learners as well as teachers. For this purpose ET discusses the ways
and means of suitable evaluation techniques and their planning, development, selection and
appropriate use in relation to the objectives of learning and teaching system (CCE, grading system)

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