Lesson 1: Review of Educational Technology 1

Educational Technology 1 is defined as the application of technology in the educative process that takes place in education institution. Technology Integration is one of the best reasons why Technology is useful in Education because Teachers can use technology in instruction even if the subject is not computer-related subject. And because Educational Technology 1 is applied in instruction, Educational Technology 1 showed the four phases of application of Educational Technology in Teaching and Learning:

·                  Setting of learning objectives

·                  Designing specific learning experiences

·                  Evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experiences and

·                  Revising teaching- learning progress for improving future instructional activities.

In Learning, technology has roles: Technology as tools to support knowledge construction, as information vehicles, as context to support learning by doing, as a social medium to support learning by conversing and as intellectual partner to support learning by reflecting.

Learning objectives of Educational Technology 1: To orient the learner of educational technology in society, To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media for teaching-learning process, To uplift learner to human learning through the use of learning technology, To impart skills in planning, designing, using and evaluating the technology- enriched teaching- learning, To acquaint learners on basic aspects of community education, and To introduce the learner to what it recognized as the third revolution, the computer.