Educational Technology

CFD 3890

Module information• Contact Hours: 6 per week for 7 weeks in first

semester, 3 per week for 14 weeks in second semester, 2 hours per week practical for 21 weeks

• Credits: 24• Module Assessment: Continuous assessment

50% (Portfolio is part of continuous assessment).• At least 6 assessments• Examination: 50% (1 paper of 100 marks)

Lesson allocated times

Venue: LR 5

• Monday (13:30 - 14:25)• Wednesday (13:30 – 14:25)• Friday (11:30 – 13: 25)

Module aims & objectives• This module will provide the student with a

deeper understanding of the uses of ICTs in facilitating the teaching and learning process as well as the role that ICTs play in the larger educational and national context. Students will explore ways in which ICTs can be used for professional development, educational management, and school administration and publicity.

Brief course outline1. Research and report on educational technology theories. 2. Critically examine the Namibian ICTs in Education policy and strategies 3. Write an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for a school.4. Evaluate and apply emerging technologies (e.g. Smart boards, cell phones) into teaching and learning.

• 5. Integrate Web 2.0 & 3.0 technologies (e.g. wikis, blogs, and user-created online content) into teaching and learning

• 6. Critically discuss the impact of ICTs on education and development

• 7.Explain the ethical and legal issues when integrating ICTs in education

• 8. Discuss the use of e-Learning • 9. Use ICT’s for assessment and evaluation • 10. Create a school web-site using a school

web service • 11. Create an e-Portfolio • 12. Use ICTs for effective school management

Technology in EducationLecture 1. ELO 1

Concepts and DefinitionsEducational Technology has no

agreed upon definition.

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“Technology is commonly thought of in terms of gadgets, instrument, machines, and devices….most (educators) will refer to technology as computers”

What is Education?• Many academics refer to it as “learning”-

Hodkinson & Macleod (2010)• Then what is learning- to learn means “to

acquire a new skill or insight”- Illich (1973) which is linked to Blooms’s taxonomy

• Other linked education to an end product- meaning there is a change in behaviour of the individual

Continue• Roger (2003) indicated that learning is an

ongoing process of task-conscious or acquisition learning that takes place all the time.

• Education can then be defined as conditions and arrangements where learning takes place.

What is Technology• Comes from a Greek word called “techno-

logia” meaning “skill” & understanding of something or a branch of knowledge.

• Lievrouw & Livingstone (2002) stated that technology involves 3 major aspects

• 1. Devices & Artifacts – technology itself & its design.

• 2. Activities & practice – what humans do with technology (i.e. human interaction, identity, culture, etc)

• 3. Context – meaning in what social arrangement the technology will be used.

• Therefore: Education + Technology can be combined by defining it as a “ organised process of learning in using skills (devices) to acquire and branch knowledge”.

Any useful definition of educational technology, therefore, must focus

on the process of applying tools for educational purposes, and the

materials used.

However, Saettler (1990) urges

“The historical function of educational technology is a

process rather than a product.”

In education, the combination of process and product merges

instructional procedures with instructional tools.

Process Product