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Educational Technology

Notes teaching’. According to Universal Dictionary of English Language, Education means—(1) To educate, To
provide training, (2) Developing brain and character, and (3) A particular state education systems. These
words indicate various learning of education and educational procedures. By providing new experience,
education makes a boy to adjust him according to the environment and the full development of his
powers and inherent abilities, as per eligibility, he could contribute his family, community and nation
to a specifi c area.
Education is meant to bring the desired change in a child’s behaviour. Basic trends of child are refi ned
by education. Psychology, technology and science education provide valuable contribution in refi ning
the basic trends. Thus, education in itself is not a self-suffi cient suffix but it is related to technical science.

Technical science education helps in the study of the behavior of children and provides
instructions to scrap and modification for them.

1.2 What is Technology?

Technology or Technological Science is a synonym of an English word ‘Technology’. Technology

means—Methods of using scientific knowledge in daily life. According to Prof. Golbraith, There are
two major characteristics of Technology—

(1) Systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
(2) Forming the division and sub-division of any such task into its component parts.
Jacquetta Bloomer defined Technology in 1973 as follows—“Technology is the application of scientifi c

theory to practical ends”.
So it can be said that the scientific mechanisms and experimental techniques as well as technical or

technological sciences.
‘Technical’ term of ‘machine’ or machine-related suffixes people usually associate with. But it is not

necessary that the ‘technical’ should only be used in a machine or machinery. This means that any
experimental work, in which scientific knowledge or principles should be used. It derives from the

Greek word ‘Technikos’ which means—art. This is the synonym of the Latin language word ‘Texere’
which means for weaving or construction. According to Dr. Das “Any system of interrelated parts which

are organized in a scientific manner as to attain some desired objective could be called technology.”

1.3 Definitions and Nature of Educational Technology
1.3.1 Simplistic Defi nitions

Definitions of educational technology has a variety of different scholars. Some important defi nitions are
being quoted below. These defi nitions assist in understanding the meaning and nature of educational
technology—
(1) Jacquetta Bloomer 1973—“Educational Technology is the application of scientific knowledge about

learning to practical learning situations.”
(2) Richmand 1970—“Educational Technology is concerned to provide appropriately designing learning
situations, holding in view the objectives of the teaching or training, bring or bear the best means
of intruction.”

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