Please define and discuss the concept of (i) Technology, (ii) Education, (iii) Instructional Media and (iv) Instructional Technology. State the source/sources of your references.
i) Technology :
Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, and crafts, or is systems or methods of organization, or is a material product (such as clothing)
taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
ii) Education :
Education in the broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual.
taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education
iii) Instructional Media :
Reiser and Dempsey (2007) define instructional media as follows: “the physical means via which instruction is presented to the learners” (pg 18). This includes textbooks, videos, computers, and having an instructor physically instructing a group in a classroom.
taken from : http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~smflanag/edtech/basic.htm
iv) Instructional Technology :
Instructional technology has several different aspects. It includes the following: the process of designing instruction; the application of learning theories and styles to designing instruction; the selection of materials and tools to design and implement a design; the evaluation of designs; the effective use of teamwork; and the use of “technology in support of the development and delivery of instruction” (IT Faculty, nd). Furthermore, the goal of instructional technology is to select effective and appropriate technologies to use in designing, developing, implementing, and assessing instruction; and, a second goal is to use the processes and methods behind instructional technology to understand how learning occurs in a given group of individuals and then design instruction to meet the unique learning needs (Reiser & Dempsey, 2007; IT Faculty, nd).
taken from : http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~smflanag/edtech/basic.htm
