This document discusses the influence of technology in education. It begins by defining technology as the practical application of scientific knowledge to meet daily needs. It then explores how technology can be used in education, including hardware like radios, TVs, and computers. The document outlines how technology can make teaching more effective, help achieve learning objectives, and maximize output. It also discusses how technology can benefit areas like mass education, research, and distance learning. Overall, the document emphasizes that while technology is a useful tool, it does not replace teachers, who play a key role in planning, preparing, and guiding the educational process with technology.

1. Influence of Technology
in
Education
By
M.Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor

2. Meaning of Technology
• The use of scientific knowledge to meet the
needs of daily life or the practical form of
scientific knowledge is called technology
• When the knowledge of science is used in the
practical tasks, then it is called technology
• Paul Saettler –
• “The word technology does not necessarily
imply the use of machines, as many seen to
think, but refers to any practical art using
scientific knowledge”

3. Concept - Technology in Education
• Use of technological hardware in education
• Mainly concerned with electrical and electronic
gadgets which are used to facilitate the teaching-
learning process
• Saettler (1978) distinguishes -
• Technology of education – is a behavioural science
• Radio programmes, television programmes, computer
programmes, OHP transparencies – based on
scientific knowledge of education
• Technology in education – is a machine conception of
education technology
• Radio, Television, OHP, Computer, Tape Recorder, etc.,

4. Characteristics of Teaching Technology
• Teaching technology can make the teaching more
effective
• Pupil-teachers and in-service teachers can have the
advantage of teaching technology
• In this technology, assistance can be sought from
philosophy, sociology and psychology
• In teaching technology, input, process and output
are involved
• Objectives of all the three domains namely
Cognitive, Affective & Psychomotor Domains, Can
be achieved by using this technology
• With the help of teaching technology, teaching from
memory level to reflective level can be organized

5. Need of Technology
• Increasing the effectiveness of
Teaching-Learning process
• Maximising the Output
• Optimum use of Resources

6. Scope of Technology
• Mass education
• Historical Information
• Costly and Hazardous experiments
• Gaming and simulation
• Distance education
• Collection, storing and retrieval of
information
• Research

7. Role of Technology in Education
Technology of instruction can
make an ordinary person
capable of superior performance
and a means, either printed or
electronic, to distribute that
instruction

8. • Technology of Education includes
• Mechanism of instructional process
in the classroom situations
• Levels of teaching
• Principal operations and
• Establishing relations between
learning theories and teaching
operations

9. Working areas of Technology
• Area of Curriculum Construction
• Selection of Teaching-Learning Strategies
• Selection of Audio-Visual Material
• Determination of Educational Objectives
• Areas of Teachers Training
• Area of Feedback
• Area of Hardwares

10. Areas in which Technology has
Influenced Education
• Curriculum and development
• Revolutionary change in teaching and
learning methodology and practices
• Shift in emphasis from teaching to learning
• Media application in education and the
development of media taxonomy
• Quantitative and qualitative expansion of
education

11. • Emphasis on non-formal education and
special education systems
• New assessment criteria and procedures
• Emphasis and research, continued evaluation
and recycling process in education
• New role and position of teachers and an
increasing emphasis on in-service training of
teachers
• Appearance of resource libraries and
teacher’s centres

12. • Changes in structural patterns of
educational organisations to facilitate
interaction between programme
producers, course designers and users
• Application of economic considerations
and cost-effective criterion in education
• Use of ET in the field of lifelong and
continuing education

13. Technology’s Role in Improvement of
Quantity and Quality of Education
• In education, ‘learning’ is more important
than ‘teaching’
• Learning is concerned with pupils
• Teaching is concerned with pupils and
teachers
• Olden days – teacher – source of knowledge
• Modern days – textbook, author, the radio
programme, the film-producer and many
others now assist in the learning process

14. • Traditional classroom – 1 teacher and 30
or 40 students
• One-way communication of information
• No longer effective for modern days
• Two general factors – ‘information
explosion’ and ‘population explosion’
• More things to be learnt and more
individuals to learn

15. • Technology consisting of various media
of mass communication, suitable child-
learning process and modern testing
and evaluation techniques
• Both quantitative expansion as well as
qualitative improvement of education
can be facilitated and accelerated with
the help of technology

16. Today a technology of education is
being developed with the aim not
only of making education more
widely available, but also of
improving the quality of education
which is already available
- Apter

17. Classification of Media
• Projected Aids
Films, film strips, slides, opaque projection
and overhead projection
• Non-projected Aids
Graphic Aids,
Display Boards,
3-Dimensional Aids,
Audio-aids,
Activity Aids

18. Advances in Technology
• Dial Access
• Educational Television
• Video
• Interactive Video
• Videotex
• Teleconferencing
• E-mail
• Computer
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)
• Local Area Network (LAN)
• CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory)
• Digital Video Interactive (DVI)

19. Role of Technology in
Different Stages of Education
Primary Education
Play-way Method and Materials
Games and Toys
Graphic Materials
Audio Programmes
TV and Video

20. Secondary Education
 Audio Media
 Video Media
 Computer Education
Higher Education
 Big and Little Media
 Projects – Computer Literacy and Studies in Schools
(CLASS) INAT for Education, TELETEACH, etc.,
 IGNOU –
Television Programmes and Telefilms of educational
Nature produced by BBC and other organisations like
Educational Media Research Centres (EMRCs), Audio-
Visual Research Centres (AVRCs) and So on – Telecast
by the UGC – not upto the satisfaction

21. Functions of Technology
• To convert behavioural objectives into the
learning conditions in the context of educational
objectives
• To analyse the characteristics of the learners
• To organise the contents
• To formulate or construct the media of
presenting the contents
• To evaluate the performance of the pupils with
reference to the achievement of educational
objectives
• To provide reinforcement and feedback in order
to modify the bahaviours of the pupils

22. Functions of Teaching
• Identification of the educational goals and
objectives of the community
• Developing appropriate curriculum for the
achievement of the stipulated goals
• Analysing the process of teaching and
learning
• Developing suitable teaching-learning
material
• Selecting and developing proper teaching-
learning strategies for obtaining optimum
results

23. • Developing and selecting appropriate
audio-visual aids
• Utilising effectively the hardware and
software media
• Providing essential feedback and control
through evaluation
• Preparing teachers in the use of new
technology of teaching

24. Main Benefits of Technology
• Make education more productive
• Make education more individual
• Give instruction a more Scientific base
• Make instruction more powerful
• Make access to education more
immediate
• Make access to education more equal

25. Advantages of
Technology in Education
• Individualized instruction
• Improvement in the Quality of Teaching
• Meeting the problem of Mass Education
• Equalising Educational Opportunity
• Providing Continuing Education

26. Technology neither
diminishes the role of the
teacher nor replaces him
nor dehumanises education

27. • Television lessons
• Programmed instruction
• Computer Assisted Instruction
• Functions like
• Planning, organising, operating,
evaluating and replanning the
educational programmes

28. Computers used in ….
• Preparing time-table and schedules
• Engaging students in tutorial work
• Allocating learning materials as per individual
needs and interests
• Providing information/data for guidance and
reference
• Providing immediate feed back to learners
for better interaction and motivation

29. • Providing direct interaction between
learners and subject matter
• Facilitating bibliographic searches
• Evaluation learners’ achievement and
classifying them according to their
abilities
• Maintaining progress cards, etc,

30. Teachers ….
• Assist him to do his work in an efficient
manner to achieve the educational objectives
• No one technology is useful for all types of
learning
• While selecting the media the criteria to be
kept in mind are availability, accessibility,
acceptability, economics and validity of the
media
• Usual comment – replace teacher and create
unemployment

31. • No technology can produce new thing
because output depends on the nature of
input
• Input aspects is more important and it
depends on the teacher
• Instructional material cannot be prepared by
technology
• Therefore, technology will not replace the
human teacher but it will help him in
improving teaching-learning process

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