1. Educational Technology Lecture 2

2. Determining Relative Advantage
Teachers choose technology-based methods over other
methods when they see the "relative advantage," i.e.,
the new method offers enough benefits to convince
them to use it instead of the old one.
Relative advantage is a perception or belief shaped by
teachers' experience and by information they receive.
One way teachers learn that a technology-based
method has relative advantage is through reading
research results.

3. Deciding on Objectives and
Assessments
How should teachers decide on specific outcome
objectives they want students to achieve?
Most teachers look to more general outcome
statements provided by state and/or district
curriculum standards to help them derive specific
student outcomes.