EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER I - MEANING, NATURE, AND SCOPE

Origin and History 

Evolution of Educational Technology:

• In the early period of human history, when writing was unknown, the method of presentation on the part of the teachers and citation and memorization on the part of the students was a common practice in almost all the civilizations of the world. Socrates' teacher-pupil oral dialogue system prevalent in the west and oral teaching tradition maintained by the ancient sages in the Gurukuls of our country may be cited as a testimony of the use of relevant technology in the field of teaching-learning at a particular age in the progress of human civilization.

• With the advent of writing as the means and materials of communication, like writing on the leaves and tree-trunks, engraving on the metals and rocks, and then the use of some type of paper and ink material provided the next breakthrough in the use of writing technology for teaching and learning. In the time to come, it provided a great impetus in the field of teaching and learning which witnessed the use of the subject matter available in the form of printing material and textbooks, a great scientific and technological advancement.

             

 

• The use of writing and printing technology then took its next leap in helping the cause of teaching and learning by being utilized in the production and use of the instructional material like chalk or blackboards, pictures, charts, models, maps, diagrams and other graphic material.

• Later on, with the industrial development and technical advancement, sophisticated scientific instruments, mass media and educational materials were used. It brought the use of sophisticated hardware and software such as radio, television, tape recorder, films, transparency, etc. in the field of education.

• The concept of programmed instruction and theories of learning, later on, added another dimension to the meaning and concept of educational technology. This was again broadened hen the new approaches in the form of system-approach, microteaching, interaction analysis and computer assisted instruction came into existence.

Student Blues Entry #1

Last Friday, June 3, 2015, in our EdTech II class, we were tasked to create a blog. Most of us are new to blogging and so we are clueless as to how things in here works. However, some already knew a little but are still not equipped to get a blog running (pertaining to me and some of my friends who have too boring lives to write interesting things most of the time.)

We thought it would  be a fun and challenging experience to keep a blog for at least a semester (or more, who knows? lol) which results to our group deciding to make a main blog which is the Epistemologists of UPHSD and make ourselves an individual blogs as well (ergo, this.). Besides, a teacher should be flexible and adaptable to as many things as possible. And so we did. 

from left to right: Hannah, Mark, Elaiza, Iriz, Ny, and Me (yes, my face is blurred in person lol kidding. I'm ugly.)

This blog will contain a lot of things that are student and future teacher related. Will also contain lots of stuff regarding Educational Technology since it's the main reason why we made a blog in the first place.

Goodluck to us! :)