Chapter 3:

IMPORTANCE OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
 • Instructional Effectiveness
Multimedia instruction increases student’s achievement.
• Active Learning
Interactive technologies encourage student’s involvement
in the learning process.

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 • Critical Thinking
The structure and use of technology can promote higher-level
thinking skills.
• Cooperative Learning
Well-structured cooperative learning activities can foster “the
development of leadership abilities, teamwork, and improved
self-esteem”.

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 • Communication Skills
Communication skills can be enhanced by using technology
in small groups and by integrating telecommunications into
the curriculum.
• Multisensory Delivery
Technology supplies information through multiple sensory
channels, allowing the students with various learning styles to
assimilate and apply knowledge.

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 • Multicultural Education
Telecommunications make it possible to expand classroom
“walls” and link students and teachers in national exchange.

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 • Children conversant with technology show improvements in
their writing, reading and math skills.
• Technology has also contributed to the decrease in drop out
rates, improvements in student attendance and enhancement
in their learning abilities.
• Technology in school benefits the children during their higher
education

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 • Computers can offer livelier explanations of various subjects.
• The inclusions of technology in the process of learning makes
learning an enjoyable activity, thus inviting greater interest from
the kids.
• The knowledge from all around the world can be better brought
about for the children and can be better assimilated by them.

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 • The administration processes, the official procedure of school
can be simplified by means of technology.
• The data pertaining to the school employees and students can
effectively be stored in a school database.
• The school could have a library system, which, by the utilization
of technology, can be maintained in an efficient manner.

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 • On similar line, attendance record of the pupils and teachers
can be maintained by means of a school database.
• Moreover, the school can host a website of its own, holding
information about the school.

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 • Technology provides important tools to support
knowledge construction for presenting learners’ ideas,
understanding and beliefs and for producing organized,
multimedia knowledge bases for learners.

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 • Technology serves as information vehicles for exploring
knowledge to support learning-by-constructing.
• Technology is important when used for comparing
perspectives, beliefs and world views.

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 1. Representing and simulating meaningful real-world
problems, situations and contexts.
2. Representing belief, perspectives, arguments, and
stories of others.
3. During safe, controllable problem space for
student thinking.

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 1. Collaborating with others.
2. Discussing, arguing, and building consensus
among members of the community.
3. Supporting discourse among knowledge building
communication.

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 1. Helping learners to articulate and represent what
they know reflecting on what they have learned and
how they come to know it.
2. Support learners’ internal negotiations and meaning
making.
3. Constructing personal representations of meaning
for supporting mindful thinking.

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