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Solved: Educational Technology (834) : AIOU Solved Assignment M. Ed/M.A. Education (Autumn 2019)

Q. 1 Explain educational technology in your own words. How can educational technology be helpful in training and education of distance learners?

 


Educational technology


Educational technology is the use of both physical hardware, software, and educational theoretic to facilitate learning and improve performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. This field, which is also called EdTech or EduTech, has been described as a persisting initiative that seeks to bring learners, teacher, and technical means together in an effective way.

In addition to experiential knowledge drawn from educational practice, educational technology is based on theoretical knowledge that emerge out of various disciplines such as communication, education, psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and computer science, among others. It encompasses several domains including learning theory, computer-based training, online learning, and m-learning, where mobile technologies are used.


How can educational technology be helpful in training and education of distance learners?

Technology is not limited to the use of machines, and the aim is to apply the scientific knowledge in order to obtain a practical result. The humankind has created science and technologies, from the wheel to the computer, and the changes were significate in their relations between the human beings and the nature, overcoming the traditional learning and teaching process. We cannot simply use a resource. It is important that all the pedagogical action is previously prepared, using structured objectives and allowing students to keep in touch with new and different contents. By doing it, learners are stimulated to build new relations with themes previously acquired. The teaching work makes use of a pool of technological assets, aiming the learning appropriation according to the mediation of the educator, with diversified resources and from different methodological procedures. Technology becomes the mediation for Distance Education, and according to it, the authors Pallof & Pratt defines this process.

The technology serves as a vehicle through which the course is conducted. The students’ social interaction in the context of the online course forms the foundation of the learning community.


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Q. 2 What are characteristics of learning? How can teachers make their teaching effective with the help of learning theories?


Q. 3 Take a topic from Urdu text book of 7th grade and devise instructional objectives Explain helping aids and strategies you will use to achieve those objectives in the classroom.

Q. 4 Define instructional strategies. Which strategy is most appropriate to teach the concept of living organism in the subject of science and why?

Q. 5 Prepare a list of non-projected aids which can be used in the classroom. Among them which is most suitable? Justify your answer with the help of examples.

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