Although information technology and educational technology are closely related, they belong to different disciplines with different research objects and categories. Information technology belongs to a technical discipline, its research object is information-related technology, and its research scope is information acquisition, storage, processing, transmission and presentation.
Educational technology belongs to educational discipline. As the name implies, it pays attention to the role of technology in education. Its research object is teaching process and teaching resources, and its research category is the design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of teaching process and teaching resources. That is, educational technology focuses on the technology applied in the process of education and teaching or as a teaching resource.
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First, the characteristics of educational technology
Educational technology is not the general application of a certain teaching method, it includes the theory and practice of three concepts (learner-centered, relying on resources and using systematic methods) that are comprehensively applied to education and teaching. Educational technology attaches importance to the analysis and study of learners' characteristics (such as behavior level, ability, knowledge base, age characteristics, etc.). ), because the learner's situation has a direct impact on many educational decisions such as choosing goals, determining the rhythm, and determining the nature of evaluation.
In educational technology, solving problems depends on developing and utilizing learning resources, promoting personalized learning and improving people's learning quality. Learning resources include information, personnel, materials (teaching media software), equipment (hardware), skills and environment, which is a complex system.
In order to make them produce overall functions and play an excellent role in learning, it is necessary to realize the optimal combination through system design. Therefore, it involves a series of educational development work, effective teaching resources development and effective teaching process design.
Second, the main features of information technology
1, information technology has the general feature of technology-technicality. Specific performance is: scientific methods, advanced tools and equipment, skilled skills, rich experience, rapid action process, efficient functions and so on.
2. Information technology is different from other technologies-information. Specifically, the service subject of information technology is information, and its core function is to improve the efficiency and benefit of information processing and utilization. The nature of information determines that information technology also has the characteristics of universality, objectivity, relativity, dynamics, sharing and transformation.
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