After reading through our article for the week and considering how to define Education Technology, I came up with the following:
Instructional Design and Technology is the practice of creating lessons and choosing the best tools to make the lesson as productive as it possibly can be with a given set of students. Those tools we choose from should include: computers, input tools, media of various types, methods of presentation, and other materials that are available for our use.
The only problem I found with the above image is that "tools" appears to be most important, but I believe that students should be the central focus of what we do and the tools should be just that, tools for achieving the best results for our students that we can.
I agree that students should be the focal point of each lesson and the tools they use should be what is best for them to decipher what is to be learned. Some students learn better watching a powerpoint while others can read a step by step instructional diagram. I believe the student knows how best they learn and understand but is the teacher listening to them? If the teacher is a good listener/observer the student should have the tools they need to accomplish anything.
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