Educational Technology - could be defined simply as technology used to teach someone something. I would define it as technology, period. All technology is educational technology. We learn something from everything we do. Sending a text message increases your hand-eye coordination (sometimes your not wrecking your car coordination). Video games do as well. Games improve reasoning skills and teach problem solving. Watching TV, getting on facebook, tweeting on Twitter, or watching something on YouTube all teach us something, whether we know it or not.
Our goal as educators should be to use this to our advantage and reach our students where they live. The videos posted on the ETEC blog are right about engaging students and using the technology around use. We should be using the technology they already know. It is out there if people would just realize it. Everyone seems so worried about re-inventing the wheel when there are wheels rolling around everywhere. Forget what you know and look at what is right in front of you.
Twitter - teaches writing and clearly stating a thought in 140 characters
Blogging - teaches writing and collaboration and communication
Games - Problem solving and reasoning
iPods - EXCELLENT way to delivery instruction
facebook - interation and networking and communication
Those are just a few. The world is educational technology.
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