My Voice

Reflection:

    Educational Technology, also termed as EdTech, is a field which is concerned with the practice of creating, using and managing appropriate educational methods, technological process and resources for the ultimate goal of facilitating e-learning and understanding the impacts of technology on learners.

        Educational Technology is very useful in the classroom because it arouses and sustains the interest and attention of the students. It catches students’ attention and interest to listen to the whole class discussion and also concretize and give specific concepts and ideas to promote meaningful learning. It creates learning more interactive when using technology in education. Learners participate in the class activities and able to interact with the teacher, co-learners and on the materials used. With the use of Edtech, education will be more accessible to more people. With all those strengths listed above, Educational Technology also had demerits or weaknesses. This can be proved with the different scenarios we encountered in using the different types of technology. It is when LCD projector is not compatible with the computer used, when the audio-video clip does not work as planned and when the CD cannot be played on the CD player. That’s why we should check and prepare everything before the class starts to avoid these drawbacks.

        Teacher should be very familiar with the technology he will be using. It is better if he has a rich background of experiences about the devices he has chosen. He must also consider the connection that should be built between and among experiences that is provided by the various educational technologies. Aside from that, teacher should use teaching strategy and may use the principles of teaching of Educational Technology to avoid isolation and so that students will be motivated to learn and could facilitate meaningful learning. I believed that this way of teaching was being portrait by my EdTech teacher, where he showed his expertise on the different activities and involves students in the teaching-learning process. Thank you so much sir for understanding and extending our deadline. J That’s why I try my very best in making this e-portfolio so that the chance you gave to us is worth it.

Therefore, Educational Technology is not just a course to be taken for completion for a semester but an unending experience that let you cope up the future world that is slowly dependent of the fast changing technology.