My Learning and Technology definitions

Rebecca Ethington's picture

 My definition of instructional technology is it  is the things-methods, tools, gear--teachers use to teach students.  The more        these things apply to our students' lives the more engaged they are in learning what we have to teach.   I define educational technology  the same way.  Technologies in education are the tools and methods we use to instruct our students: these can be gear and such but also concepts such as multisensory learners or  cooperation learning.  They may be different in the way that educational technology is used in formal education settings whereas instructional technology is used more in any kind of sharing of information.  However, the actual methods, tools, etc are the same. 

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Submitted by Rebecca Ethington on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 8:07pm

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