Educational technology (EdTech) is the study of ethical practices for facilitating e-learning through digital mediums to enhance teaching and learning both in the classroom and online. It aims to improve higher-order thinking skills and prepare students for a competitive global job market by inspiring digital-age models of working, collaborating, and decision making. While technology keeps students engaged through exploration and helps integrate lessons, it can also distract students online and make planning lessons more time consuming for teachers.

3. What is Educational Technology?
 Sometimes termed EdTech;
 Study of ethical practice of facilitating
e-learning.
 It uses digital mediums to enhance teaching
and learning in the classroom and in online
environment.

4. Competencies in Education
Technology:
 Improves higher-order thinking skills,
 Preparing students for their future in a
competitive global job market.
 Inspiring digital age professional models for
working, collaborating, and decision making.

5. EdTech Standards:
 Designed to reach across the digital divide
among K-12 schools.
– Realistic classroom activities
– Learning activities are well-suited to learning
environments in which technology is abundant.

6. EdTech Media:
 Consists of materials and machines to promote
learning.
 It is part of the term – Instructional Technology.

7. Pros and Cons of using EdTech:
 Exploration
 Lesson Integration

8. Pros and Cons of using EdTech:
Pros:
Computers allow students to learn
through exploring the internet and doing
research. It keep students engaged in a
project and learning far longer than they
would with a set of encyclopedias.

9. Pros and Cons of using EdTech:
Cons:
Some students will explore beyond the
bounds and parameters of the project and
become distracted by other activities that
they find on the internet.

10. Pros and Cons of using EdTech:
Pros:
By incorporating technology into lesson,
students will become more engage in and
excited about the subject at hand.

11. Pros and Cons of using EdTech:
Cons:
Finding the right materials online to
integrate into a lesson is not always easy.
This means teachers may spend a lot more
time planning lessons and become
overwhelmed and frustrated.

14. Pedagogy:
Knowledge
Generation
Knowledge
Sharing
Knowledge
Transmission

15. Pedagogical Skills:
It is established by clear rules and expectations
which provides the students opportunities to
applying learning.
 ICT support teaching and learning.

16. Instructional Technology
 is "the theory and practice of design, development,
utilization, management, and evaluation of
processes and resources for learning," according to
the Association for Educational Communications and
Technology (AECT) Definitions and Terminology
Committee.