My thoughts of Educational Technology.....

Educational Technology is the concept of incorporating education with technology while developing technical, academic, and cognitive, and career related skills. Training and development is used to enhance the learning envrionment in any setting.

A look into who specializes in educational technology.....

Connecting Education, Leadership, and Technology: The overview for this company lured me into their website. I appreciate their goals of improving teaching, learning, and educational management in an effort to satisfy education reform. http://celtcorp.com/CompanyOverview.aspx

CELT's vision for using technology to improve teaching, learning, and educational management has evolved based upon contemporary education reforms and emerging information technology trends. CELT is constantly moving forward and developing new programs and services to address high priority needs of the field including assisting states to harness technology in order to meet the requirements and challenges of the No Child Left Behind legislation as well as specific school district or community level education reform and federal e-rate program initiatives.

Mission Statement

To help learning organizations attain their vision, mission, and goals by integrating high-quality programs, services, and technology with the organization's people and processes in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective way.

ASCD- This website focuses on educational leadership. They make every effort to inform educators of new information and research to benefit the students in the classroom. Although, their only focus isn't educational technology there is a focus. http://www.ascd.org/about-ascd.aspx

See the overview: http://bcove.me/o1027bsv

How do you feel about educational technology?