THE ROLE OF

EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY IN
LEARNING
Here starts the
lesson!
 PRAYER
Our Heavenly Father,
We Thank You for the opportunity to begin this new school year.
We ask that You bless the students and the faculty that make our
school a great place of learning.
We pray that You will guide us in all ways, so that we will seek
Your will in everything that we do.
We ask this in the name of Jesus, Our Lord, Amen.
 Contents of This Presentation
What is Technology?

What is Educational Technology?

Terms Associated with Educational Technology

 Technology in Education

 Instructional Technology

 Technology Integration in Education

 Educational Media

Roles of Educational Technology in Learning

What is Technology?
 Comes from the Greek word “techne”
which means “craft or art”.
 Not only refers to machine…also

 It is a “planned, systematic method of

working to achieve planned
outcomes – a process not a product.”
What is Technology?
 It is the applied side of scientific
development. – Dale 1969

 All the ways people use their inventions

and discoveries to satisfy their needs and
desires.
What is
Educational
Technology? For analyzing problems
• Devising
 A complex, integrated • Implementing
process involving • Evaluating
• Managing
• People
• Procedures
• Ideas
• Devices and
• Organization
What is
Educational
Technology?
 A field of study that
investigates the process of
analyzing, designing,
developing, implementing, and
evaluating the instructional
environment and learning
materials in order to improve
teaching and learning.
 A field study which is concerned
with the practice of using
educational methods and
resources for the ultimate goal of
facilitating the learning process.
 It is made up of organized effort
to implement the theory
intellectual technique and
practical application of
educational technology.
 Terms associated with
Educational Technology
 Technology in Education

 Instructional Technology

 Technology Integration in Education

 Educational Media
Technology
in
Education ● The application of technology to
any of those processes involved in
operating the institutions which
house the educational enterprise.

● It includes the application of

technology to food, health, finance,
scheduling, grade, reporting and
other processes which support
education within institutions.
Instructional ● Refers to those aspects of
Technology educational technology that “are
concerned with instruction as
contrasted to designs and
operations of educational
institutions.

● It is the use of a variety of digital

technology such as the internet,
web-based applications, computer
devices, online curriculum and
more to facilitate and enhance
student learning in the classroom.
Technology
Integration ● Using “learning technologies to
introduce, reinforce, supplement
and extend skills.

● The use of technology resources

(computers, digital cameras, CD-
ROM’s, software applications, the
Internet, etc.) in daily classroom
practices, and in the management
of a school.
 ● Are channels or avenues or
Educational instruments of communications.
Media Examples:

 Books
 Magazines
 Newspapers
 Radio
 Television
 Internet
 Roles of Educational
Technology in Learning
  From the constructivist point
 From the traditional point of
of view, educational
view, technology serves as
technology serves as learning
source and presenter of
tools that learners need. It
knowledge. It is assumed
engages learners in active,
that “knowledge is
constructive, intentional,
embedded in the technology”
authentic and cooperative
learning. 
 Technology as information
vehicles for exploring
Technology as tools to
knowledge to support learning-
support knowledge
by-constructing
• construction.
For representing learner’s ideas,
understandings and beliefs. • For accessing needed
• For producing organized, information.
multimedia knowledge bases by • For comparing perspectives,
learners. beliefs and world views.
 Tehnology as context to
support learning by doing.
• For representing and simulating
meaningful real-world problems,
situations and context.
• For representing beliefs,
perspectives, arguments, and stories
of others.
• For defining a safe, controllable
problem for student thinking.
Technology as a social
medium to support learning
by conversing.
• For collaborating with others.
• For discussing, arguing, and building
consensus among members of a
community.
• For supporting discourse among
knowledge-building communities.
 Technology as intellectual partner to support
learning-by-reflecting
• For helping learners to articulate and represent what they know.
• For reflecting on what they have learned and how they came to
know it.
• For supporting learners internal negotiations and meaning making.
• For constructing personal representations of meaning.
• For supporting mindful thinking
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