{"id":178,"date":"2010-09-16T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T20:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/?p=178"},"modified":"2010-09-16T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T20:11:11","slug":"defining-educational-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/2010\/09\/16\/defining-educational-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Educational Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from the course:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, define educational technology. Secondly, identify nature and  characteristics of a good ET program based on your own field  observations and readings. Thirdly, give some examples such as  philosophical, psychological, social and cultural foundations of ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to take a stab at defining Educational Technology as a step towards answering your 2nd and 3rd questions.<\/p>\n<p>ET  is any tool used to enhance learning.  We could contrast it to Adaptive  Technology, which would be all the tools used in improving  accessibility for the disadvantaged, for instance, speech recognition  software.  Then we have the study of technology or Technology Education &#8211;  programming, hardware, various applications, web design, etc. (The  reading suggest that it is no longer popular to study programming in  school, a shift that I have observed personally as our  programming\/computer science teacher barely gets to teach his specialty  anymore.)<\/p>\n<p>I have no trouble defining ET, what seems more elusive  is trying to limit the technologies (tools) that we can include as part  of that category.  It seems that all sorts of tools are now being used  in education, whether they be social networking tools, design tools,  visual literacy tools, LMS, along with many of the adaptive tools we  have begun to adopt more regularly such as touch screens and voice  recognition software.<\/p>\n<p>So the lines are now blurred.  We cannot  simply study ET as technology is pervasive in all aspects of our lives.   In order to improve our teaching practices, it is wiser to study and  understand how technology has effected change in society, whether it be  the way in which we communicate or the way we define the world around  us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from the course: Firstly, define educational technology. Secondly, identify nature and characteristics of a good ET program based on your own field observations and readings. Thirdly, give some examples such as philosophical, psychological, social and cultural foundations of ET. My answer: I&#8217;d like to take a stab at defining Educational Technology as a step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2928],"tags":[3601,1311,2065,558],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etec-511","tag-educational-technology","tag-social-networking","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}