1. Educational Technology- Presenting
the Art of Teaching in a New Fashion
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Pooja Singhal
Ph.D Research Scholar
Jamia Millia Islamia

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“Books have come between our mind and life. They deprived
us of our natural faculty of getting knowledge directly from
nature and life and have generated within us the habit of
knowing everything from books. We touch the world not
with our minds but with our books. They dehumanize us
and make us unsocial. Let the students gather knowledge
and materials from different regions of the country, from
direct sources and from their own independent efforts.”
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- Rabindranath Tagore

3.  In ancient days, a teacher enjoyed a very high respectful position and
honour as Guru
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 Now with the increasing complexity of modern times, education faces
ever-changing new demands
 Mostly teachers have to bear all the burden of all the changes.
 The teacher in the emerging Indian society has a very pivotal role in
the social reconstruction of wisdom, knowledge and experiences of one
generation to another.
 Children are the potential wealth of a nation.
 They are always exposed to the information of the teacher. It is,
therefore, necessary to realize that the emerging Indian society can
achieve all round development with the help of the teacher who acts as
a powerful agency in transmitting its cherish values. 3
 A teacher is not only custodian of a nation’s value but is also an
architect par excellence of new values.

4. EMERGENCE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION
 Man has always desired for excellence.
 This desire has given birth to new inventions and
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innovations in all walks of life.
 Science and technology has always been instrument in
bringing efficiency and improvement in the process and
product of the human work.
 The world of education has been influenced by the increased
use of technology.
 It has provided valuable help in improving the task of the
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teacher, smoothening the process of teaching-learning and
enriching the goals of education.

5.  History of the use of technology in education takes us to
the stage when the subject matter becomes available in
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the form of printing material and text-books.
 It was soon supplemented by the use of teaching aids
like black-boards, specimen, pictures, charts, models,
maps and figures etc.
 In this way the earlier concept of educational technology
was limited to simple audio-visuals and meant for direct
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teaching-learning.

6.  Later on the industrial revolution and technological
advancement, sophisticated scientific instruments,
mass media and educational materials were being used.
 It brought the use of sophisticated hardware and
software like radio, television, tape recorder, films,
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transparencies etc. in the field of education
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7.  The concept of programmed instruction and theories of
learning, later on added another dimension to the
meaning and concept of educational technology.
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 This was again broadened when the new approaches in
the form of systematic approach, micro teaching,
interactions analysis and computer aided instructions
came into existence.
 In this way the introduction of new approaches, contents,
theories, means and materials, management skills and
objectives in the field of teaching and learning, lead to a
gradual shift in the meaning, definition, concept, nature7
and scope of the term Educational technology.

8.  The term educational technology carries a wide meaning.
 It can neither be confined to the use of audio-visual aids, a
software materials and hardware equipments nor be limited
to the use psychological principles and instructional theories
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for bringing improvement in the process of teaching learning.
 Being a science and technology of education, it should cover
all that happens during the planning, implementation and
evaluation of the teaching-learning process.
 It should device way and means to explore and utilize all the
resources to bring improvement in the teaching learning
process.
 Thus, in brief the educational technology stands for the wise
application of the available human and non-human resources
for providing appropriate solution to the educational
problems and to improve the processes and products of 8
education.

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As defined by the Commission on Instructional
Technology, USA;
‘Educational Technology is a systematic way of designing,
implementing and evaluating the total process of learning
and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on
research in human learning and communication and
employing a combination of human and non-human
resources to bring about more effective instruction’. 9

10. NEED OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN 21ST
CENTURY
 Population explosion
Knowledge is expending everyday
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 To develop new strategies in the field of education like
micro teaching, programmed instruction, Instructional
analysis and use of hardware technology in education
etc.
 Make the entire teaching-learning process objective,
clear, scientific and interesting.
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 Enables the teacher to control and modify the classroom
environment in his/her own favor.

11.  Emphasizes theories and principles of teaching more than
those of learning. Thus, it has raised the significance and
relevance of a teacher in the classroom
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 By demonstrating the effective teaching of renowned teachers
on these media, one can benefit millions of students together
 Beneficial for teacher training institutes because it helps in
the modification of teacher’s behavior. Thus, helps in
preparing competent and skilled teachers
 Helps in analyzing the problem of school administration
scientifically leading to improvement in system
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 It helps in preservation of knowledge for future use

12. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE
TEACHERS
Introduction of educational technology in the field of education has
affected the conventional roles of the teachers and equip them with
technical mindset to perform various activities related to teaching in
the following manner:
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 Educational technology has provided a scientific base to
educational theory and practices
 It has helped the teachers to use scientific and systematic
approach to conduct action research in the classroom situation
to overcome the classroom problems, related to classroom
environment, content, curriculum etc.
 It helps teachers to modernize and mechanize the teaching
learning process. It also helps the learner to study at their own
rate with the help of programmed instructions on video or 12
computers.

13.  Educational technology supplements teachers in their instructional
programmes through the structured lessons for remedial, enrichment
or drill purpose. The learners get the training of self-instruction and
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teachers are relieved of the burden of routine repetition for exercise
and revision purposes
 Educational technology supplements the teacher with audio-visual
aids to make the teaching-learning process more effective
 Through analyzing the content and organizing it in a systematic,
logical and psychological order in their lesson plans teachers,
especially prospective teachers, visit the classroom with confidence
and put up a high profile performance due to their total control on
content and process
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 Helps in teacher’s professional growth.

14.  Adds to their teaching competence, modify their teaching behavior and
style, inculcate a scientific outlook, approach and attitude. It further
helps them to transfer these to the learners as well
It helps in realizing pre-specified learning objectives by incorporating
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available procedures and techniques
 Educational technology helps the teachers to identify the students and
their abilities by testing their entering behavior and by arranging the
subject matter accordingly
 If the same teaching strategy or technique is used throughout the lesson,
it bores the students a lot. For this purpose, change in strategies is
needed every now and then. Education technology helps the teacher to
bring about change and novelty in them in an unnoticeable manner
 The ultimate aim of educational technology is to make teaching-learning
process effective. For this purpose the teacher not only changes his 14
process off and on but he/she also uses new technological equipments in
his/her teaching.

15. LIMITATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
 There is only one way communication and thus they are non-
interactive
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 It is mechanical with no human touch. Thus does not cater to
the emotional needs of the learner nor do they share
experiences or feelings
 High technologies are quite expensive. In some of the schools
there are not even blackboards, in such situations it becomes
impossible to even think of computers, video-tapes, video-disks
etc.
 They demand competent and skilled teachers with technical
knowledge
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 They demand lot of care while handling and maintenance of
high technology becomes a challenging task

16. CONCLUSION
 Inspite of all the limitations the role and contribution
of education technology in the field of education
cannot be overlooked.
 Though technology can do a number of teaching
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functions quite effectively but this does not imply that
it can diminish or replace the role of a teacher
 Teaching-learning process can be made more effective
if both teachers and educational technologies go
together aiming at the same goals and objectives.
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