Education Technology: The Ethical Impact Of Educational Technology

Introduction

Nowadays, it is evident that our life is interwoven with the rapid progress of technology. Technology is being implemented in almost every section of a human’s everyday life and business structures. As the world keeps on developing, various emerging technologies influence us in different ways, either in positive or negative ones.

Over the last few decades technology has been embraced by the field of education creating a more motivating and challenging learning environment. With the term Educational Technology we refer to “the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources (Robinson, Molenda & Rezabek, 2008, p. 15). Of course educational technology is a complicated procedure as it involves not only people but also ideas, organization and devices in order to analyze problems, which deal with human learning, and implement, evaluate as well as manage solutions to those problems (Jonassen, 2006).

In other words, educational technology is a study whose main goal is to facilitate the learning process by using educational methods and resources (Lucido & Borabo, 1997). Its role is multiple since it serves as an information vehicle for knowledge exploration and learning-by-constructing support. To that end, information is accessed and perspectives, beliefs and world views are compared at the same time. Thus, collaboration, discussion, critical thinking and