What are the roles of education technology in learning🖋️📚||#farhataslam ...

 What is Educational Technology in Teaching & Learning📚

Learning at all stages is a continuous process involving the progressive organization of human behavior, to meet new developments in the environment. A few defining characteristics of learning may be mentioned as under:

Firstly, all living is learning i.e. the individual is in an active relationship with his environment.

Secondly, it results in a change in behavior. We can note a change in the student's responses to the teacher's questions after the lecture. It is a change of behavior influenced by previous behavior. It is an activity that leaves a more or less permanent effect on later activity.

Thirdly, learning is an adjustment. Most learning in children consists in modifying, adapting, and developing their original nature. In later life, individuals acquire new forms of behavior.

Fourthly. It comes about as a result of practice. This characteristic eliminates such phases of change as illness and maturation. Potent effects of motivation on behavior are worth consideration here.

Fifthly, learning is universal. Every creature that lives learns. Man learns most. Human children have the longest period of immaturity and helplessness, and hence the long period of opportunity for learning. The human nervous system is very complex, and so are human reactions and human acquisitions.

Sixthly, learning is a relatively permanent change. After a rat wakes up from his sap he still remembers the path to the food. Even if you have not been on a bicycle for years, in just a few minutes of job practice you can be quite proficient again.

Seventhly, learning is growth. It is never-ending growth. At each stage, the learner acquires new visions of his future growth and new ideals of achievement in the direction of his effort. Each achievement forms the basis of a fresh endeavor, and thus the constant urge of his soul to newer and higher ideals of work and achievement is progressively fulfilled.

Lastly, learning is not directly observable. The only way to study learning is through some observable behavior. Actually, we cannot observe learning, we see only what precedes performance, the performance itself, and the consequences of performance.

Learning is not confined to human beings only. Animals also learn in a similar fashion. The juggler makes the monkey learn so many tricks. Dogs are trained to catch thieves. elephants are taught to perform circus tricks. pigeons learn to play ping-pong. Dolphin fish are noted for playing netball or passing through a ring. The only difference between animal learning and human learning is in the extent of learning because learning depends upon their mental structure.

What role can educational technology play to make the learning process more effective and efficient? The effort has been made in this unit to highlight the process of learning and particularly the role of teacher and technology in learning.