Educational technology, also termed information and communication technology (ICT) in education, Ed Tech, and learning technology, is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
[1] The term educational technology is often associated with, and encompasses,instructional theory and learning theory. While instructional technology is "the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning," according to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Definitions and Terminology Committee,
[2] educational technology includes other systems used in the process of developing human capability. Educational technology includes, but is not limited to, software, hardware, as well as Internet applications, such as wikis and blogs, and activities Teachers may not feel the need to change the traditional education system because it has been successful in the past.[96] This does not necessarily mean it is the right way to teach for the current and future generations. Considering that today's students are constantly exposed to the impacts of the digital era, learning styles and the methods of collecting information have evolved. To illustrate this concept, Jenkins[96] states, “students often feel locked out of the worlds described in their textbooks through the depersonalized and abstract prose used to describe them”, whereas games can construct worlds for players to move through and have some stake in the events unfolding.
