• 1. What Is Technology? • 2. What Is Educational

• 1. What is Technology? • 2. What is Educational Technology? • C. Technology in the Classroom • F. Advantages in the Use of Technology / Why the Need to Integrate Technology • G. Barriers in Technology Integration • Uses of Technology

• In ancient times, technology was defined the spoken word of manual craft or cunning skill

Aristotle

By 330 BC, coined the Greek term technologia and split scientific knowledge into three parts: theoretical science, practical science, and

productive science (technology).

• the earliest use of the word technology in the United States was found in a Harvard University course on the "application of the Sciences to the Useful Arts" in 1816

• .  The 1832 Encyclopedia Americana defined technology as principles, processes, and nomenclatures. • Ever since that time, there has been debate as to the definition and identity of technology.  

• From a historical perspective, philosophers of technology agree that two phases of technology can be seen: • the craft phase; and, • the modern scientized phase. 

• However, to a philosopher of technology, modern technology, although scientized, is a unique structure of thinking, not merely applied science. • Nor, is technology, like science, fully described by the laws of nature.  

• Argued "that modern science was derived from technology through the wisdom accumulated via the 'technical arts,' and through the invention of a few critical instruments (e.g., the telescope, the microscope, the barometer, the air-pump, the pendulum clock.)" (Lewis & Gagel, 1992).  In these terms, technology is defined as practical science--science as technique. 

• practical science is not the same as "applied science." Accordingly, "applied science," as viewed by scientists, is inferior to "pure" or "theoretical science." Practical science or technology, was not inferior science but was a conception of science as technique.

http://www.TechEd2.0/nature of tech.htm • Technology is usually thought of as the products we use everyday. A good example is a computer. Although, a computer is a technological artifact, it does not encompass all aspects of technology. Technology is a body of knowledge and skills necessary to design, invent, innovate, and solve problems.

• Technology is the study of the human made world. Science is the study of the natural world. Knowledge acquired in one setting can be applied in another. Science provides technology with the knowledge about the natural world. Technology provides science with the tools needed to explore the nature world.

• The impact of a technology on society is always unexpected because technologies are rarely "the end of the story." They lead to new technologies--or new uses--or new social modes. It is this interplay of technology and society

• Also called learning technology - is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources."[1] The term educational technology is often associated with, and encompasses, instructional theory and learning theory.. Educational Technology includes, but is not limited to, software, hardware, as well as Internet applications and activities.

• Educational technology is most simply and comfortably defined as an array of tools that might prove helpful in advancing student learning.