How is
technology transforming teaching and learning?
Many new
technologies are being used in the education system today: online learning,
social networking, interactive whiteboards, podcasting, class blogs and wikis,
and mobile devices.
Education
technology can help teachers and students better engage with course materials
and make learning more interactive and collaborative.
Educational
technology provides benefits such as collaboration, communication,
organization, efficiency, virtual experiences, additional support and more.
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How
Modern Technology is used in the Education System for Learning and Teaching?
Educational
technology is one of the leading sciences that constantly updates its concept
and content to be compatible with the needs of the emerging scientific field
and with the changes of the age.
The concept
of educational technology has evolved over time to become more comprehensive
and more widely is used in the modern era: The era of Information Technology Revolution.
Education
Education is an organized method that
contributes to the student's acquisition of a set of the knowledge-based system
through the use of an organized, intended and pre-defined means.
The
emergence of education coincided with the emergence of civil society and its
continuous development; schools reflect the concept of education and represent
the education process that interested in controlling the scientific content of
students by relying on the use of regulation, discipline, and rationing.
What is Educational Technology?
Education
technology is an integrated system based on a structure of knowledge and
science specialized in human learning, and the use of a range of learning
resources, both human and non-human, that promote and support the activities of
students (learners); by relying on the application of the curriculum of systems
that achieve the objectives of education.
Learning technology is defined by UNESCO as a
curve used in the design and establishment of the process of education, and
then contribute to the implementation and evaluation of the full on the basis
of certain goals, and linked to the results of research for Communication and
education, used with human resources or non-human; to education for a lot of
efficiency.
History of educational technology
There are
diverse views on the historical roots and evolution of the concept of
educational technology.
A group of
researchers sees that their beginnings date back to the era of
primitive man, based on the use of a set of tools, techniques,
and methods.
According to
the thinker Hawker, the theories of educational technology were founded on the
basic principles of learning.
It relies on the ideas, opinions, and theories of many international thinkers and
scholars.
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The Evolution of Educational Technology
The
development of educational technology dates back to the 1920s when
the world and the educational thinker (art) referred to it as the technology of
education.
Since that year,
a number of stages have influenced the concept of educational technology and
contributed to its development to the concept known in the present era.
The stages
of evolution were behavioral science, communication concept, audiovisual
education, system concepts, and visual education.
Educational
technology has been associated with a range of educational tools interested in
programs, equipment, and materials, all of which are specialized communication
systems.
In 1970, the
presidential commission on education reform (PCER) introduced two definitions,
followed by many other definitions, which were based primarily on the two
previous definitions, in the use and identification of a specific concept of
education technology, and it was impossible to choose one definition and one
concept only.
The
philosopher (Wilson) pointed out that the definition of a precise concept and
specialized in education technology is a difficult task.
Especially
in conjunction with the rapid and accelerating developments in the field of
education and technology.
Use of technology in education
Educational
technology has an important role to play in the educational environment. Its
use and application in education depend on a variety of means known as
educational technology.
Educational
technology includes a range of educational tools and devices, such as computers
and television.
Many of
the educational
strategies are used in applying this technology in Education, such
as self-
learning, and group education, and examples of tools and devices used in
the application of education technology are:
Open
Education Resources: A set of modern means to help students learn; by reducing the financial
costs of traditional subjects, and by enhancing their reliance on digital
learning resources.
Virtual
education: An
educational tool that can be applied in or out of classrooms by using video
recordings and watching students in the classroom or using their mobile devices.
Monitoring
tools: They are
a means used to supervise exams, and are more sophisticated than the routine way
of observing students during exams.
Performance
Monitoring tools are centers that bring together students to submit their exams
and ease their mobility from one place to another or between countries to
submit exams; Their place of residence was far from the exam site.
Formative
assessment: An
evaluation method used by a teacher or teacher at a school or university. This
assessment helps to provide students with a perspective.
It also
transforms the assessment into an analytical and structured method that helps
the teacher to prepare many questions for student assessment, helps to organize
them according to descriptive data.
Discussion
forums: is an
educational experience based on the establishment and design of a specialized
council to discuss the subjects, and has many features such as enhancing the
role of students in the participation, and activate the role of collaborative
learning, whether using the Internet or outside.
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Are there any drawbacks to using technology
in the classroom?
There are some drawbacks of using
technology in the classroom and there are a number of disadvantages in terms of
education technology, which are as follows:
- Some educational materials are intended for use on a single system so they will not work correctly if another system is used.
- The method is not suitable for some students; it is possible to require a high level of time management, self-discipline.
- The cost of which is high.
- Reliance on materials or software.
- It may not reach all students.
- Reduce student interaction with the teacher or colleagues.
Here, we have given a list of 12
disadvantages of technology in education:
2. Transforming learners into inefficient learners.
3. Insufficient methods of teaching.
4. Major sources of distractions.
5. Misguided by the wrong information.
6. Students do not do their homework regularly and losing the assignment.
7. Waste of valuable time.
8. Creating enough room for cheating.
9. Increased rate of cyberbullying.
10. Extinct of good handwriting.
11. Replacing books with e-books.
12. Difficult to deal with online courses.
Guidelines for the use of
technology in education
The key role of the teacher is to help the student understand a particular topic.
Technology
is the tool that the teacher will use to achieve this goal.
Technology
alone cannot manage or control the learning process.
It is very
important that the teacher knows that the way technology is used in education
is what makes it useful or harmful to the educational process.
So it is important for the teacher to
determine what the student needs to learn in addition to identify the
technology that will need to be used during the process of education, then the
teacher to learn how to use technological tools in the classroom.