My understanding on educational technology and its relationship with teaching and learning process.

I did not realize that it is so complex in this area before I read through this chapter. I thought that this field focuses only on how to use technology in education. Now I understand what I thought before is too narrow to capture the characteristics of this area.
The author said in this chapter that the definition of educational technology is always changing because this field is in a state of rapid change which is under the influences of the Information Age. I found that both the education and technology changed during the last century after I read through the history part of this chapter. So I think it is hard to say that the way we teach facilitates the technology or the technology which we employed (in education) facilitates the way we teach. They are integral and facilitating each other and moving forward together. Also with the development of education and technology they are becoming closer and closer. Still from the history of this field I can tell educational technology is always on the way of pursuing the purpose of improving the efficiency of human learning. This never changed during the past years and will not change in the future either.
As the author discussed in this chapter learning styles are different from person to person. Through the analysis of all kinds of learners and teachers and learning styles, people believe that the ways of teaching should vary too. Then how to realize this? As the author said Technology can help with this and also it can help educators to improve the efficiency of teaching. I understand when the author say that Lecture and oral presentation, when used along, can be a challenging for many students. In fact it was a challenge for when I was in my high school. Plus that the intelligences are different from person to person as explored in the video of Multiple Intelligences. This also asks educators to offer different ways of teaching. The other video gives us good ideas of Strategies for Teaching Diverse Learners. Now Educational technologies become the tools that a teacher might use to create an effective instructional event. That is why this area is so important to education.
Educational Technology is becoming widespread and is accepted by more and more people. Many people benefit from it and learning is becoming more and more convenient.