Before, technology was strictly held by an elite few.  But as it evolved, so are its roles for each sector.  One significant pattern was technology’s grasp in the business sector; then, from business to education, and to the emergence of Educational Technology.

 Now, how did the transition from business- to education-sector commenced?  The fact here is: education sector is one of the primary sources of employment skill (human-resource).  The education sector’s well known role was to actively facilitate the meeting of the needs of the economy and society (as a whole) through students’ technological education.

To make this role or function possible, the education sector took its technological integration at its deepest roots, and made it inhabit the grand branches of competency development.  All this effort is relatively characteristic of its function, but it will be way easier to digest if everyone’s to call it with its concept-name, Educational Technology.

Now, as recipients of this technology, students are to expect more than the separate computer class.  Instead, at a certain level of their education, they are to meet opportunities of practicing various technological applications and harnessing technological skills at various subjects.

In other words, with technology, students are to learn to put their mathematical analysis unto basic (and even advanced) programming, as well as learn to use some media-related technology to create interactive teaching systems (for education majors).  Those are just a few examples; in fact, it would be difficult not to link any other discipline with any technology.  

In sum, students and the education sector are able to fully assimilate the grasp, diversity, as well as the limitations of technology.  Consequently, in the midst of Educational Technology, students’ assumptions of its strength and weaknesses are formed.  What’s more, they are given the confidence to work around and off it.

        Education technology or commonly known as educational technology is usually defined as the study and ethical practice of easing the learning process and enhancing performance by creating, using and managing relevant processes and resources in technology. Education technology is often associated with teachers, instructors, lecturers, educators and other individuals who are involved in using various technological processes and resources in making it easier for the process of learning to be performed by the student, in improving the student's performance in learning and absorbing the new skills and knowledge that he has learned, and easing the process on how he applies and uses the knowledge or skills that he has learned.

        It is important that the teachers, lecturers, educators and other individuals involved in the process of educational technology that they should know the essential elements or factors involved in the easing the processes and uses of the approaches used in education technology.

        The essential elements of educational technology is important because the success of an individual in teaching and educating his students with the use of educational technology would depend on how effective and efficient he was in using the essential elements in teaching his lessons and in communicating with his students. The essential elements of education technology:

• Relevant techniques, tools or processes – As an educator, you should use the techniques, tools or processes that are applicable and relevant to use for educating your students. Moreover, those techniques, tools or processes should be understood by the student and he would have an applicable use for them in a practical setting.

• Effective implementation – A technology used in the process of teaching students should be carried out by the teacher in an efficient manner when he uses the technology for his lessons. You should make sure that the technology that you use would fulfill the purpose it was meant for, and it would also be used by the student so he would learn from the technology that you used.

• Electronic books or also known as E-books would continue to have wider applications in various public school districts because they would lessen the load of books and other reading materials that the students would have to carry in their backpacks.

• Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service in which shared resources, compute software, and information would be provided to computers and other electronic devices in a manner that is similar to the delivery of utility services over a network. Cloud computing has enormous potential in the K-12 education system. It could result in electronic or mobile devices that could serve as cheaper and accessible educational or learning tools for many students because they do not have to depend on bulky desktop computers to receive resources and other information.