This is the first time I've posted a response to someone that I 'knew'. I'm
looking forward to seeing Sidwell in about 10 days. The small thrills of
technology.
I started to respond thinking I could put my thoughts into a short quick
format. Now that I try to put it all into understandable text, the task is much
harder.
Educational Technology - I see as technology that teachers use to educate
their students. That technology may be a specific software package, a specific
website, or a specific piece of equipment. Regardless, the technology is not
the focus. The content curriculum is the focus. IE: Students learn about
melting point by recording data with probes and showing thier results with
spreadsheets and graphs. The purpose of the lesson is to learn about melting point.
The technolog supports that purpose.
Technology Education - This is teaching students to use specific technology.
The focus is the technology. To provide realistic application, curriculum
from other class may be incorporated. IE: Teaching students to use InDesign.
They learn to use it by creating documents about a variety of topics and/or
events. The focus is the technology not the events. I can see how Technology
Education could replace Vocational Education and Industrial Arts to some extent.
Academic Technology is harder to define. I can see it being a combination of
both Educational Technology and Technology Education but the focus is on the
academic not the vocational application. What software, websites, and
equipment do students need to know to be able to function successfully in an academic
environment. Many of those same peiced of technology are found in the real
world. IE: Students need to learn how to use a word-processing program to
convey their message to a teacher, a peer, and eventually an employer. Some times
there is a class to learn how to use that specific peice of technology some
times there is not.
This topic certainly provides some mental gym when you stop and think about
it. Then plug in the variable of what do our students really need to be able
to know and do to be successful in whatever they choose to do in life.
-Marie
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Marie Hone
_mhone@norfolkcollegiate.org_ (mailto:mhone@norfolkcollegiate.org)
Norfolk Collegiate School
Norfolk, VA 23505
_www.norfolkcollegiate.org_ (http://www.norfolkcollegiate.org)
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