Technology in Education

1. Descriptive Reflection:

There are a variety number of technologies in the world but some of them are instructional technologies. Instructional technologies mean the design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and resources to be use in learning. And the technology in education is the improving of educational performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technologies.

Educational technologies includes, hardware such as PCs, laptops, smartphones, overhead projector, visual

equipment, whiteboard and so on, software and internet applications such as wikis, blogs and activities.

It has alot of advantages in educational settings like:

1. It change the roles of students and teacher. When students use technology they become active rather than passive in educational setting. Also, the teacher will be facilitator rather than the center of education or the only source of information.

2. It will increase the motivation ans self-Esteem of the students.

3. The students will be  able to acquire an impressive level of technical skills.

4.Encourage students to cooperative and work collaboratively.

5. Help to accomplish some complex tasks because of the support and capabilities of technology.

6. Improve students attention and increase the use of outside resources to improve the learning.

2. Critical Reflection:

From my experience I actually benefit alot from using technology in teaching and learning processes. I use it in these areas:

1. I use it for searching for information from different online sources.

2. Using different media and technologies in my presentations like, overhead projector, computers and presentations software.

3. Using technology to interact with my teacher and friends to share information and receive feedback.

4. Get course materials through e-mails, moodle, social network and storage devices.

5. Create, doing and submit my assignments.

6. Solve problems for scientific subjects like math, physic and chemistry through its related software. 

Also in this course we used different types of technologies such as, white board, Active inspire, prezi, storytelling programs, whatsapp application, wikis  and now I use blog to write this reflection. Actually I like all these technologies and I feel it help me in many areas.

Now a day regarding to the different type of technologies the world become as small village. You can share information, connect with others from different places and so on. It make every thing possible and easy.

In the future, I will use different types of technologies that I see it helpful and benefit in the teaching and learning process. As technology teacher I will also describe the  educational technologies to my students and inform them about its benefits in their learning. I recommend the educational institutions to increase the use of technologies to benefit the teaching and learning process and improve the performance of learning outcomes. The ministry of education also should try the best to provide schools with different types of technologies that appropriate for improving learning.