The Educational Technology In The Horizon Of Life Philosophy

Life philosophy is a philosophy with vitality, which awake people to consider the life through their sense and comprehension, institution and experiences. The meaning of education is to help people to realize their life activity and existence, and be more adequately affected by their conscious and will, thus to reach a more perfect individual lifetime. There are four times to discover the objects of education: (1) Human is the object of education; (2) The object of education is human; (3) The object of education is the learning subject. (4) Adults are also the objects of education. The science of complexity development boost the objects of education which are undergoing the fifth discovery——life! Namely the objects of education are the lived individual. There are two meanings about the"individual"here. On one hand, it is a single person; on the other hand, an indivisible entirety or system. Thus unite the life and non-living above a broader sense.Technology is not an object such as machinery or equipment, nor knowledge, methods, means, as well as activities; technology is a living matter that can be seen as a system which components of entities factors (tools, machinery, equipments, etc.), intelligent factors (knowledge, experience, skills, etc.) and coordination factors (technics, processes, etc.). Technology is not neutral and value-free. It is the essence to constitute the human.Educational Technology is not a technology of"material", nor a technology of"intelligence", but an organic combine of the above two. It is not a physical or chemical technology, but a really human technology that beyond mechanical. It's belong to humanity, if we can say educational purpose is to make a person to become human being, then the mission of educational technology just highlight the word "make", that is "how to make", "how about to make". The meaning of make is mostly an enlightenment, introduction and assistance above the natural life of the educated. In short, enhancement. That to say, the mission of educational technology is to enhance life.Educational Technology comes of the first practical activity of education. By the using of the system design and application of the whole environment (including hardware and software), educational technology's mission is to prompt the live individual's growth and to tutor him kindheartedness. It is a technology with instructiveness which comes form the motile educational subjects. Educational technology is constituted by polynary ingredients, not only contain education, but also technology, through which inner reciprocity to keep continuous growth and development. This reciprocity contains two processes: education technicalization and technology educationalization. The education technicalization is the understanding stratification plane which the educational technology origins, and then the technology educationalization is the practice stratification plane. These two stratification planes are too closely linked to be inseparable. They are not to oppose mutually but unifications by each other. The technology educationalization is the intrinsic power of education objectified into technology which changes accordingly. The education technicalization makes the technology change into the intrinsic power of education subject. It's"non-objectify"of the intrinsic power of education. Educational technology has just realized the screw rise and development through the"objectify"and"non-objectify".The development of educational technology performs for periodic characteristic which include three stages: excitement, lonely and stable stage. There are three reasons which cause the "Phoenix phenomenon" of the periodic development of educational technology. First, the concept of educational technology; Second, economic conditions, and the third is the McDonald's of education. In particular, the current concept backwardness of educational technology which can make it falls into"entity objects"continually if we do not have the breakthrough about the concept of educational technology. And this will also affect inevitably the construction and development of educational technology in China. Therefore, it is an urgent task to establish a"people-oriented"concept of scientific development of educational technology. And then handle the relationship correctly between the human and technology, education and technology in the education activities and resist the thoughts resolutely which weight technology and light education or weight technology and light human. It is very important to pay close attention to the survival and development of the situation of teachers while concerned about the development of the students'life personalities in order to ensure the education subject to build a harmonious inner life in an atmosphere of a good education.There are some questions on China's educational technology not only the practical field but also the professional disciplines, such as value technology contempt education, value innovation contempt to inherit, and the development of the network education is imbalanced, etc. However, it must be determined that educational technology has being existed lively as a young inter-disciplinary field. And what the mission of educational technology scholar is to develop it to a truly mature discipline.