INTRODUCTION

Educational technology is defined by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology as "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. Educational technology refers to the use of both physical hardware and educational theoretic. It encompasses several domains, including learning theory, computer-based training, online learning, and, where mobile technologies are used, m-learning.

Educational technology, sometimes shortened to EduTech or EdTech, is a wide field. Therefore, one can find many definitions, some of which are conflicting. Educational technology as an academic field can be considered either as a design science or as a collection of different research interests addressing fundamental issues of learning, teaching and social organization. Educational technology is the use of technology to improve education. It is a systematic, iterative process for designing instruction or training used to improve performance. Educational technology is sometimes also known as instructional technology or learning technology.

Educational technology research always had an ambitious agenda. Sometimes it only aims at increased efficiency or effectiveness of current practice, but frequently it aims at pedagogical change. While it can be considered as a design science it also addresses fundamental issues of learning, teaching and social organization and therefore makes use of the full range of modern social science and life sciences methodology.

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REFLECTION

My reflection in this subject is that educational technology is a modern way of teaching the students. It is used by the educators in order to facilitate learning in more modern way. According to my research modern technology is helpful in a way that students will be more knowledgeable enough in using technology because nowadays majority of the people are relying to technology.

In practice, as technology has advanced, the particular "narrowly defined" terminological aspect that was initially emphasized by name has blended into the general field of educational technology. Because of that so called technology students will be able to do their projects and can research easily in just one click.

But despite of those advantages there will always be disadvantages. There are students who will rely on the computer but they did not do research instead they use technology for playing. In fact young people nowadays can manipulate computer even if they very young. There is a learning there but sometimes they abuse the use of technology.

I hope that young ones will teach how to use technology properly. Because if we will only  see the relevance of technology we will be able to think that it is really helpful. We should be thankful that in our generation we were able to use technology in order to do our job faster.