In fact, 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, and its research scope is information acquisition, storage, analysis, processing, conversion, transmission and evaluation.

Educational technology belongs to the educational discipline, and its research object is the teaching process and teaching resources supported by appropriate technology, while the research category is the design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of teaching process and teaching resources supported by appropriate technology. The appropriate technologies mentioned here include modern technology, traditional technology, tangible materialized technology and intangible intelligent technology.

Of course, it refers to information technology in many cases, but the "appropriate technology" here should never be understood only as information technology. Through information technology training and educational technology ability training, the goals to be achieved are completely different: through information technology training, trainees should have information technology literacy, that is, they should have the awareness, ability and morality of using information technology.

Among them, the ability to use information technology refers to the ability to acquire, store, analyze, process, transform, transmit and evaluate information. Through the training of educational technology ability, it is necessary to make trainees have educational technology literacy, that is, to have the consciousness, ability and morality of using educational technology.