Defining What Educational

Technology Is All About

Henry C. Encabo, MSc
College of Education

Lectures for Educational Technology 1

What is technology…
Teknik & Technologie (Ger.)
• the useful arts
• study of industrial arts
• industrial arts
Ursula Franklin
Physicist, metallurgist

• Practice, the way we do

things around here
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
• A form of instrumental reason
“techniques de soi” or
“technologies of the self”
W. Brian Arthur
Economist

• “A means to achieve a
human purpose”
National Science Foundation (US)
• Technology are the entities, both material &
immaterial, created by both mental and physical
effort in order to achieve some value (to solve real
world problems)
Technology…
• Tools, machines, etc
material
• Knowledge (of techniques)

• Methods and Processes

immaterial
What is Educational Technology?
What is Ed Tech?
“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)
A Study…

• A continual knowledge construction thru

research and reflection

• Disciplined inquiry aimed at generating new

ideas for creating environments where learners
can learn
An Ethical Practice…

• The ethical basis of practice (expectations,

boundaries, rules)

• An approach on how to work or do (e.g. are we

to use fake news websites?)
Facilitating Learning

• Provides a space & tools for exploration

(supportive of learning)

• help create an environment in which “learning

more easily” could occur
Improving Performance

• The effectiveness of technology to bring about

learning

• The efficiency, “the extent” to which learners

feel more empowered to pursue their own
goals
Creating…

• The research, theory and practice of designing

and generating new learning environments
Using…

• Involves selection of appropriate resources,

utilization, diffusion, integration and
institutionalization
Sion, tion, tion…

• Selection – determining whether resources are suitable to

audience & purpose

• Utilization- the learners encounter with the resources

• Diffusion – the conscious effort to share the resources to

teachers
Sion, tion, tion…

• Integration – when teachers incorporate technology to their

learning plans and teaching activities

• Institutionalization- integration happening in a large-scale

(e.g. school wide, district-wide, etc)
Managing…

• Project management skills

• Personnel & information management (controlling the

storage & processing of information or data), program
evaluation and quality control
Appropriate Technology…

• Suitability and compatibility with purpose and audience

Assignment:
How is Ed Tech Different from the ff:
• Instructional Technology?

• Information Communication Technology?