Reflection 4, On Educational Technologies in the Workplace

After learning about this topic, I was very surprised and amazed at how important educational technology is in both academic and non-academic aspects. In the academic aspect, the major goal of it is to improve performance. If we take a look at the common diagram of 21st-century skills, we will see that the third sector of skills that students need to acquire is “information, media, and technology skills” which indicates that technology is one of the essential pillars of education. This skill and the rest of the skills that had mentioned in the diagram need a lot of effort to be gained by students, and one solution for teachers to facilitate this process is to make students engage in real-world problem-solving, and to do that we must integrate educational technology. So that is another evidence of the importance of educational technology. As for a non-academic aspect, it is worth noting that nowadays it is very common that adults continue learning due to following their interests or improve their professional. And here educational technology plays a major role in offering online courses and personalized instruction. So, we can conclude that educational technology is a very wide term which not just limited to the academic aspect.