EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

This topic aimed at helping the students to understand how technology can ease the method of teaching and learning. The lesson was presented by Bahati Sanga in collaboration with Austin Jofrey. Education technology is complex as far as it involves people, procedures, ideas, devices and organization. Educational technology is the knowledge about teaching, learning and conditions of learning to improve the efficiency and training.
Education technology is the way of identifying, solving and facilitating learning process by using the available resources/tools. It facilitates learning by control of environment, media and methods by analyze the characteristics of learner and organize the content in logical. The main goals of of education technology are to teach by involving the techniques, which will bring about the behavior change toward that knowledge gained. Here is another thing, which is similar to educational technology that is technological education is the situation where by education is used to construct stuffs for education like teaching tools, some times these two things are used interchangeably.
The evaluation of the learner’s performance follows different paradigms which focus on the input, process, output, the nature of the learners and the nature of the content (subject matter) whether they have achieved the educational objectives.
The benefits of educational technology are many but some of them are-
Gives a structure, which make easily to measure the improvement of outcomes.
Easy to access course materials e.g. By the use different materials from the internet has helped the students to change positively or not.
Widen the participation through the internet
Improves students writing and language structures e.g. different correction in the word.
Subjects are easy to learn through a variety of educational software e.g. computer simulators graphics
Motivation to the students.
Also there are some criticism put forward by those who challenges the system of learning whether the technology can replace the work of the teacher, this is found no the work of a teacher does not be replaced by any technology because it lack motivation. More challenges are as follows-
· It involves special training e.g. the knowledge of using the devices like computers to both trainers and students.
· Without proper training teachers and students cannot benefit from the devices that will improve the quality of education.
· High costs to invest and run these devices need funds.
· It needs the proper administration of these devices.
To change the system always face a lot of problem and challenges but in order to improve the educational performance we must match with new technology. The evaluation of the learning environment, the learners’ behavior the nature of the subject matter will not be helpful if the advancements of technology will not be associated to the learners.

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