The Analysis Concepts And Optimization Of Technology Education

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The Analysis Concepts And Optimization Of Technology Education In Ika South Local Government

CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION

  • Background to the Study

In recent times our educational needs have grown beyond the competence of our teachers know how. Since no education system may rise above the quality of its teachers and the training facilities, teacher education and the training facilities are being continuously given major emphasis in all educational planning and development in Nigeria.
In these crucial endeavour teachers need help by being provided with instructional materials, which will enhance effective teaching and learning at all levels of education i.e primary, secondary, post- secondary, and tertiary – from the local, state and the federal governments. Educational technology can be considered either as a designed science or as a collection of difference research interested in addressing fundamental issues, of learning, teaching and social organizations.
The importance attached to educational technology include, improved open access to education, including access to full degree programmes, it also develops once designs proper and accurate curriculum for the attainment of specific goals, it also analyses and evaluate the teaching learning processes.
The important functions of the educational technology are described as follows:

  1. It identified educational goals and objectives of the
  2. It develops and designs proper and accurate curriculum for the attainment of specific
  • It analysis and evaluates the teaching learning
  1. It develops and organizes suitable instructional materials for teaching learning
  2. Better integration for non-full time students, particularly in continuing
  3. Improved interactions    between    students    and    (Sharma & Sharma, 2016.)

Technology in teacher education should be viewed as more than tools, resources, and procedures, it should be explored in an attempt to understand it’s live earnings. Ideals of instrument internationality and technology relations may be one vehicle for helping us do that. By recognizing the “Internationality” of technology and examining the “relation” it has with preservice teachers, we may add debth to our understanding of technology and more toward a more thorough analysis of its existential impact, extending our ability to be more critical of its use in educational setting. It is against this background that this research wants to explore on the role of educational technology in teachers education.

  • Statement of the Problem 

Educational technology has the potentialities to solve some educational problems, which include rote learning, large-scale examination malpractices, high rate of school dropouts, indiscipline, learning difficulty, slow learning, negative learning interest, perceived abstractness of some subjects, and mass failure among others. It could at least reduce them to the barest minimum. With the aid of Educational technology, teaching functions are enriched by an array of teaching machines that are under the control of the teacher; coupled with a systematic or process approach to educational technology, which is based on clearly stated objective.
The problem now is that, the service educational technology  offer are not clearly defined and inadequate coupled with the students inefficient use of the services rendered in addition to the misunderstanding of the relationship between the educational technology as a course of study and the educational technology center.

Research Questions

The following are the research questions for this study:

  1. What services do educational technology offer?
  2. To what extent do students use the services of educational technology?
  3. Does relationship between educational technology as a course and educational technology centre abound for effective teaching?

Objectives of the Study

The main objectives of this study is on The Analysis Concepts And Optimization Of Technology Education In Ika South Local Government
This research study intends to achieve the following specific objectives:

  1. To find out the services educational technology offer
  2. To find out whether students use the services of educational
  3. To find out if there is any relationship between educational technology as a course and effective technology centre abound for effective
  • Significance of the Study

 
The study of the (services) i.e function, operation, control and problems’ confronting an institutions owned Technology will enable student, teacher know the role of the Educational Technology as well as the problems confronting the Educational Technology, Especially that the primary aim of Educational Technology is to teach the student
teacher on how to identify teaching skills that can enhance their effectiveness, Moreover, teach the student teacher on how to gather instructional materials for various aspects during their teaching practice and in future.
To show that Educational Technology is useful for Model Teaching, Teachers (students) in training, Sandwich Teacher  education for training in-service teachers for professional improvement; and that there are also many machines that could be used as instructional materials including computer and video coverage (films recording). To show that Educational Technology plays a complementary role by providing opportunity for viewing and review of educational programmes such as Lectures, Seminars, Workshops and conferences.

  • It develops and organizes suitable instruction materials for teaching leaning
  • It helps in selecting and developing appropriate instructional strategies in order to achieve fruitful
  • It also   helps   in   utilizing   hardware   media   effectively   and successfully.
  • It also   provides   essential   feedback   and   controls   through evaluation.

It prepares teachers in the use of new teaching technology
 

  • Scope and the Delimitation

The study has been limited to Ika local government Area,  Educational technology thus refers to the use of both physical hardware and educational theories. It encompasses several domain, including learning theory, computer-based training, online learning, and where mobile technologies are use M-learning.

Operational Definition of Terms

Education
Education is the way the individual acquires the physical, moral and social capacities demanded of him by the group into which he is born and within which he must function (Swift, 2013).
Techno1ogy
 
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to solve the practical problems of man environment. It is a systematic integral process for separation and analysing problems, devising, implementing; managing; controlling and evaluating solutions, to the problems.
Teacher Education
 
Teacher education is that aspect of education, which deals with the acquisition of practical and applied skills in the teaching profession.
Educational Technology
 
Educational Technology is complex integrated process involving people, procedure, ideas, device and organization for analysing problems and designing, implementing, evaluating and managing solution to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning.
Educational technology centre
 
A place, space, or area within an educational environment used for the storage, supply, design, and development of resources. Whether data, devices, messages, techniques, people, materials hardware and software. The resources are organised for lending and use.

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