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1. educational technology (your definition developed based upon exploring the following resources and via your on research. Please note, do not just copy someone else's definition and stop there, the idea is to explore several concepts comparing and contrasting these definitions). The following are just a few listings of educational technology related organizations and a website listing of educational technology organizations worldwide.
o I really like Januszewski’s definition, “Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources,” as cited in Trends and issues in instructional design and technology, 2nd ed, by Reiser and Dempsey.
o AECT - Association for Educational Communications & Technology
· Site was a chaotic mess. Searched for “educational technology” and came up with nothing. Searched for “search” and got several hits on research, but nothing I could use. There was a general statement about improving education through technology on the “About AECT” page.
o AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
· educational technology is a continuous process of discovery and development involving knowledge, experience, and critical thinking http://www.aace.org/conf/site/sessions/index.cfm/fuseaction/PaperDetails?presentation_id=22329
· educational technology is not a set of devices, but is in practice the relationship between devices, programs, and a learning psychology, forged by an ideology of control http://www.aace.org/conf/site/sessions/index.cfm/fuseaction/PaperDetails?presentation_id=22630
o SITE - Society for Technology & Teacher Education
· "For instance, one of the most frequent criticisms of educational technology is that it is driven more by the imperatives of the technology than by sound pedagogical reasons. Our framework argues that, though this can often be problematic, it is not necessarily a bad thing. Newer tools and technologies often offer possibilities that could not have been envisaged earlier. Teachers and educational technology scholars who understand that there is a relationship between technology and content (TCK in our framework) understand that, for example, there is no simple relationship between content and technology." http://site.aace.org/pubs/sigs/sig-Mishra-Koehler-TCR.pdf
o ASTD - American Society for Training and Development
· found something about educational technology for sales trainers, but nothing I could use
o http://www.educational-software-directory.net/organizations
· Other organizations came up, such as ISTE. I printed an article from the ISTE site to read later, but nothing useful for my definition of educational technology surfaced.
2. today's learner (based upon the information presented in these two articles and your experiences):
o http://www.taylorprograms.org/images/Marc_Prensky_Digital_natives_1.pdf and
o http://www.taylorprograms.org/images/Marc_Prensky_Digital_natives_2.pdf),
· According to the definitions for digital natives and digital immigrants, I would be a digital native. I was programming in BASIC and Turtle in 3rd grade, have difficulty reading anything without pictures or that isn’t in a bulleted list straight to the point, and use the net for everything. The teachers call me the tech whisperer.
· Legacy content: reading, writing, math, logic, writings and ideas of the past
· Future content: software, hardware, robotics, ethics, politics, sociology, languages
· Neuroplasticity is life-long but requires increased, sustained effort at higher ages. I would argue that a brain that is constantly challenged to change would change faster.
· Where’s my “sugar coating” on this assignment or this article? I still have to sit here and try to force myself to read an article that isn’t skim-friendly. This article was so written for digital immigrants! I feel like I’ve taken an hour to learn 30 seconds worth of information. Here I am having to sit and do tedious assignments that aren’t particularly challenging or intellectually stimulating. For those of you who think putting it in a video helps. Tedious is tedious in text or video. I’d take a checklist I can skim in 10 seconds as needed over a 5-minute YouTube of criteria or instructions any day. Even my productivity at school is hindered by the digital immigrant who decided that my computer should have one monitor. Multiple monitors are so much more efficient than having to minimize windows all the time!
3. the reality of education/training today, and
o constant budget cuts
o huge digital divide
o 80% of the AISD budget is salaries
o cut the salaries or number of people earning salaries, and the budget could be slashed tremendously
o Most inner city students don’t touch a computer before they are school age, and most don’t touch a computer outside of school hours after they are school age.
4. the potential impact technology can have on education/training (based upon your journal article for the journal article presentation and discussion assignment).
o Technology has the potential to misinform students if they do not know what to look for in a credible source. This occurs today with science misconceptions propagated by television and is more likely to occur with online sources as internet use by students increases.
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