Humanistic Nature of Education Technology

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¿Cuál es el objetivo principal de la tecnología educativa?

Ser una disciplina humanística

¿De dónde proviene la palabra "tecnología"?

Del griego "téchne"

¿Qué tipo de fenómenos estudia la tecnología?

Ambos

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  • The Education Technology is a humanistic subject that has the main goal of political formation of students from 4 years old to young adults.
  • I consider that the Education Technology should have these main goals: significant contribution to achieve the students’ political goal of becoming theoretical beings, that is, dreamers, poets, frustrated, ignorant, and subversive.
  • The etimology of the word "technology" itself shows that it is humanistic: "techno" comes from the word "techne", which means "the art of using tools".
  • The nature of technology is humanistic because it is based on human abilities, not on natural phenomena.
  • We humans have a genetic ability that allowed us to invent a new world that does not exist in nature, thanks to our unique intelligence.
  • The nature of technology is to study preexisting phenomena: for example, cows, atoms, rain, volcanoes, planets.
  • The nature of technology is to study new phenomena that are the product of our intelligence and our work: watches, calculators, nuclear reactors, guitars.

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