Application in Instructional Technology

By : Erwina Tri Astuti

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The role of educational technology in teaching is great importance because of the use of information and communication technologies. With the help of various applications for distance education, the Internet, teachers, and students themselves, they see the advantage of educational technology. The question is whether schools and teachers themselves are ready for the use of technology in education and whether they are aware of its benefits? In this paper, we try to give an overview of the importance and use of educational technology in the classroom.

Technology: 1a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives. b. The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective. 2. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology. 3. Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 2007)

Dr. Lazar Stošić, College of professionals studies educators, Aleksinac Serbia said that Terminological differences mostly occuronthegroundsoftheapproachtothetechnical characteristics and the use of modern appliances, and not their actual application in teaching , i.e. their actual pedagogical application.For this reason, there are different opinions among teachers in the field of social and technical sciences. Therefore,the application of educational technology requires knowledge from several areas: pedagogy, psychology, didactics,computer sciences,informatics. 

This is probably the reason for the statute of the social company. Leu et al., (2009) state that children in poorer areas very rarely use the Internet as a learning tool. Today’schildren use modern technical equipmentfrom an early age (Gutnik et al., 2011; Rideout 2011) so that their coming in with new educational technologies at school will not be a problem.

Clements and Sarama, 2003; Glaubke 2007; Dynarski et al. 2007 suggest that we should focus on five areas of software programs that have the potential to strongly influence children’s learning experience:

1. The educational value of the program,
2. Its ability to engage children in learning,
3. Ease of use,
4. Interactivity between the child and programs,
5. The possibility that a software program monitors the progress of the child.

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Clements, D.H., & J. Sarama. (2003). “Strip Mining for Gold: Research and Policy in Educational Technology: A Response to ‘Fool’s Gold.’” AACE Journal, 11 (1): 7–69.
Stošić, Lazar. 2015. The Importance Of Educational Technology In Teaching . Vol. 3, No.1, 2015.
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