We cannot compare traditional teaching methods (speech and lecture - problem solving - etc.) with modern methods. Previously, the education centered on the teacher and his skill in indoctrination, how to communicate the information to the student and even memorize it without any effort from the student, or means that God helps him except for some simple means such as ready-made panels, but with the development of technology it was necessary to extend this development to education and its methods and create a technology term based on it Education, which required several courses to develop the teacher at the educational and academic levels.
Educational technology simply talks about the mechanism of incorporating modern digital technology and means into the educational process. Hence the axis of traditionalism is underestimated, and the multiplication of the axis of modernity. But we go back and ask the same question, how does this term actually affect education as a whole? This is what we will talk about today.
Today we will talk about (technological principles and professional means of communication), which is an excellent educational course within the specialization courses (Educational Technology: Principles, Strategies, Applications) on the EDRAQ educational platform.
Educational Technology: Why this course?
The world is fast, you cannot be a teacher these days without learning how to harness your teaching capabilities in a technological way compatible with students whose entire lives have become computer, phone and social media of all kinds. Therefore, you must learn the mechanisms of applying educational technology. But you should not enter the field without prior knowledge of technology at all, here comes the role of this course. Which is considered a prelude in the field of education technology as a whole.
The course talks about the technological principles and the means necessary to communicate professionally at the educational level. Here, professional communication means how to harness technology for the profession you perform. And in this case of course we have a teaching profession.
The course is characterized by being progressive, as it is composed of three complete units, each unit has many internal lessons that cover the topic of the unit in general. At the end of each unit there is a test to measure how well you understand its content before moving on to the next unit. And in the middle we have a great mix of videos, web scripts, and small PDF manuals, to provide an impeccable overall experience for the education technology specialty of course.
Besides having a discussion forum in which you can put your point of view on a specific matter, or a question in a lesson within a specific unit, and there others can discuss you and reach a satisfactory answer. Now we will go into the three units in some detail. Dear Education Technology, here we come!
The first unit: the basics of technology
This unit simply covers the most basic basics. If you come to a child with a computer, the first thing you will teach him is that this is a screen and this is a mouse and this is a keyboard, and the function of each piece of them is such and such and such, and then you touch on the same way of working on those pieces, until you make the child familiar with the basics of the thing before delving into it. Same to you guys.
Here we learn about the concept of the Internet, input and output, browsing, searching, hardware, and a lot more in the middle. More importantly, we are also studying how to make an account on Google, because Google’s educational services are endless, and simply Google is the linking platform that allows connecting the computer with the phone, so that the teacher can communicate with students in a thousand ways and ways, applying the concept of educational technology already.
The second unit: digital professional communication tools and educational technology
Here we get to know digital professional communication with some degree of accuracy and its relationship with the concept of educational technology that we are talking about. We study many important lectures on e-mail, digital learning communities, social media outlets and networks, the difference between them, and a lot of things in the middle. This unit is considered an intermediate stage in the course, so it connects the first to the third.
Module Three: Safety and Digital Citizenship
Here we leave the technological world and the concept of educational technology a little bit, and we speak with a humane and logical perspective. Of course, a person lives in societies, and societies have laws that govern the behavior of their members within them, so that chaos does not spread and society becomes an environment that is not good for living. The same applies to electronic societies, as they do not differ much from real societies, in the end society is a space in which there is a group of individuals from different groups and interests. Be it physical or virtual.
Here we study the dangers of life on the Internet, and critical thinking. Critical thinking has been intensified in a strong way, and this really is in the interest of the learner. Critical thinking is the basis of the teacher’s creation, especially in light of the fact that there are many contradictions in the electronic space, which need a conscious mind to judge them, and there is no room for haste and haste, otherwise the results become catastrophic.
Author: Rikimaru