Educational Technology: Teaching and Learning With Technology
Educational Technology
When analyzing the development of the countries there are various side has been followed. Economic development, human resource index, GDP growth, and others. But the most important thing for development only is measured by Education. It is an investment for the future. If any country does of invest accurately that it never becomes a higher standard. Education is a must thing for every child according to the United Nations Policies. Throughout history, it has faced different sorts of barriers and but still evolved. This investigation finds out how the Education and Technology work together for the improvement of the children.
Education history ran down to the number of centuries. Archeological science reveals different sort of education methods has been found from different part of the world that has been used even before 5000BCE. Then everyone will understand how rich history education had. When we compare education and Sri Lankan history everyone knows the methods of writing on sand or stone plates. After that era, it has become to use leaves of some sort of trees for the education in Sri Lanka and other countries. Throughout the centuries these methods had been evolved. Then when it became to the industrial era first noted educational method is Abucus.it had been used to learn mathematics. After that era writing slates and blackboard has been used. Apart from that Stencil's devices used to copy the writings. During the world war, the time number of technologies has been evolved by both camps than those technologies highly influenced the education field s well. Then whiteboards, side projectors and other methods became to the stage.
After the computer came to the use of education technology evolved very high speed with different methods through history.
Learning theories and educational technology
There are various sort of learning theories has been used by the educationist from traditional to modern. Behavioral, cognitive, distance is few of those theories.
Behaviorism
It means how people investigate the objectiveness of the environment and its behavior.
Example
· Hand signals
· Reinforcement education
Cognitiveness
It means how the data should be stored.
Why these theories needed for development. Those should be used to improve the skills of the children and enhance the efficiency of the learning methods.
Role of ICT in educational technology
ICT is the fastest-growing field in world technologies. Modern world computes has played a huge role. Because children should be gained their knowledge by enhancing experience throughout the computers. The main reason for integrating ICT into the education system is international education systems are now focusing on to give computer experience to the children at very small ages. Then when they become adult ages they are expert people who can handle hi-tech systems easily. Then they will be easily adapted to modern technologies and the job market. For example, England and Wales now enable the education plan within the schools to enhance the maturity level of the children in the ICT field by planning, Learning assessment, leadership, and quality improvement in the education system. Over 2400 schools now developed smart classrooms by planning to get mobile devices and cloud systems to the children's minds.
When it came to the university system the internet played a huge role by finding information from the internet. After introducing web 2.0 and web 3.0 students are now easily accessible to the remote web sites and servers to find the information they want. Few goals need to be discuses during analyzing the technology integrated education.it has been enhanced the critical thinking capability of the students with adaptability and agility. The main thing and most important thing about this policy is easiness to access information.it is highly important.
The great number of students now trying to follow a course from home. They do not need to attend the university and classrooms. They all doing their work online and get their diplomas. Because that world has become to classroom.it is a very suitable thing for the future of the world.
Another very important thing is to prepare children for the future world. The future world is completely computerized. Then Expert systems will be governed by every field. Children must be learned about these systems since childhood.to teach them teachers should gain vast knowledge about those fields. Education completely depends on ICT in the developing world. (Olofsson, 2018) (Shan, 2013)
Application and software commonly used in Education
The modern world education field is widely integrated with the ICT tools and methods.it has established with the networking technologies. Computer Hardware, Software Applications, Mobile Devices and Internet with Cloud.
For student purposes there are various sorts of software could be used. For the information gathering Search engines such as Google, yahoo is very popular. For basic skills Microsoft office and LibreOffice are suitable. That software is a must for primary and secondary education. For Higher education programming languages like Java, PHP, C, C++, C# should be taught within the schools to develop student knowledge to the higher standards. Then they will be adopted to programming immediately. Apart from that image processing tools and graphic designing with the animation field must be taught to increase those abilities.
Rather than that e-learning systems and distance learning management systems have been widely used by the universities to deliver online courses.it has become a highly popular method for student and teachers
As a Teaching tool Presentation software including PowerPoint and video conferencing tools are widely used by the schools and university staff. (Chalopatham & Phon, 2015)
Latest Development
There are various steps has been taken by the countries to develop their schools according to the standards that supported by the new trends of technology. For example, many countries established regional education centers with high-speed internet facilities and laboratory equipment. Because students of the rural areas are reachable to the computer systems than before. Especially most of the government now encouraging computer education that supported the local communities. Then that will be reasoned to learn education technology in their language.
Multi-channel learning
It means learners can get into the professional group's b specific network. Then they will be able to exchange their ideas through the methods.
Satellite broadcasting
These are another important field now emerge as a fast technology. Remote learning, remote conferencing and attend the course by the completely online system is available now by this technology.
Mobile Internet centers and new technologies
Some of the countries now planning to establish mobile internet centers within the rural Ares. If they want to establish a permanent internet facility it will have cost huge money. Then governments are planning to establish mobile internet centers using WiMax and other wireless protocols
Smart Classroom
It has become a very popular thing within the world schools. Children are permitted to use tablets and smart devices in the classroom for learning purposes. But these things accurately monitored by the teacher to avoid unnecessary things.
Open-source software
The number of students is now moving to the open-source software technology trends due to the low cost of the software.
Speech to Text Application
These systems now emerging learners don't want to type the words and search in the internet speech recognition software automatically converted it into text and give the output.
Augmented and Virtual Reality learning
This has become a future learning method.it will be a user-friendly and highly accurate method for the student to find the information while experiencing the real world.
This research has elaborates how education technology will go through the ICT field and enhance the children's knowledge of future technologies. When education developed in urban and rural areas the country will be strengthened by the workforce and economically.
References
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- Shan, 2013. ICT in Education: A Critical Literature Review and Its Implication. International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 9(3), pp. 113-124.
