EDTEC 540 - Mod 2 Reflect

Of the fields listed in this chapter that have influenced the evolution of educational technology, which do you feel have had the greatest impact? Justify your answer.

I believe the constructivist influence in educational theory has had the greatest impact on the evolution of educational technology. When learning strategies such as cognitive scaffolding allow complex concepts to be “disassembled” and “reassembled” into more manageable learning units, the learner can grasp and synthesize smaller pieces of information to build a stronger understanding of complex ideas. Constructivist learning strategies help to take very abstract ideas and make them more approachable to the learner via concrete associations within the learner’s prior knowledge. Building these “constructs” makes educational technology more exciting even now in the Information Age when educational technologists have high tech tools to design/build more effective constructs for learners.

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