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From: "edit<edit@wits.ac.za>"
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:25:32 +0200
Subject: EDIT's understanding of the Field of Educational Technology

<p>
=09<span style=3D"font-size: 14pt; font-family: calibri;"><font color=3
D"#0=
00000">The academic field of Educational Technology entails a number 
of kno=
wledge practices related to ICTs in education and society. At botto
m line, =
it is concerned with the development of the skills of student tea
chers seek=
ing to integrate ICTs in their classrooms. As a conceptual home
 for postgra=
duate teaching and research, it straddles &lsquo;eLearning&rs
quo;, which we=
 take to mean teaching, learning and assessment using ICTs,
 as well as the =
philosophical, sociological and psychological study of di
gital technologies=
 in education. As an expansive research field, it range
s across issues of k=
nowledge, information, learning, minds, brains, machi
nes, schools, and the =
network society &ndash; in short, the comprehensive
 theorization and study =
of modern technology in modern society.</font></s
pan></p>
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=09<span style=3D"font-size: 14pt; font-family: calibri;"><fo
nt color=3D"#0=
00000"><o:p>On this understanding, &#39;Educational Technol
ogy&#39; is much=
 broader than &#39;eLearning&#39;, although the former in
corporates the lat=
ter and takes from it its fundamental identity as a fie
ld of inquiry&nbsp;.=
</o:p></font></span></p>
<p>
=09<span style=3D"font
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00000">We like to re
present the boundaries of Educational Technology as fol=
lows:</font></span
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=09&nbsp;</p>
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=09<span style=3D"font-
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00000">Ian Moll, EDIT
</font></span></p>


From edit&lt;edit@wits.ac.za&gt; Tue Nov 17 10:22:36 2009
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From: "edit&lt;edit@wits.ac.za&gt;"
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:22:36 +0200
Subject: EDIT Blog

<p>
=09<font color=3D"#000080" size=3D"2"><span style=3D"background-color: 
#fff=
f00"><font color=3D"#000080" size=3D"2"><span style=3D"color: #00f"><
span s=
tyle=3D"font-size: 36px"><strong><span style=3D"font-size: 20px">Th
is is th=
e Weblog of the Division of Educational Information Technology (E
DIT), Wits=
&nbsp;School of Education.</span></strong></span></span></font>
</span><span=
><font color=3D"#000080" size=3D"2"><span style=3D"color: #00
f"><strong>&nb=
sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span></font></span></font>
</p>
<p>
=09<font color=3D"#000080" size=3D"2">It consists of information,
 research =
briefs, opinion pieces, contributions to debate and the like, p
ut up by mem=
bers of the academic staff and postgraduate students of the D
ivision.&nbsp;=
The opinions expressed in these posts are those of the indi
vidual(s) concer=
ned, and should not necessarily be taken to be those of t
he University or t=
he Wits School of Education.&nbsp;</font></p>