Resumen de Topics for debate: What is educational technology anyway?
This column is prompted by the request, from the editor of Educational Technology, to read and comment on the re cently published AECT-sponsored, book: Educational Tech nology: A Definition with Commentary (Alan Januszewski and Michael Molenda, Eds. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008). As this column is named "Topics for Debate;' my task was set not to write a regular review, but rather to provoke discus sion around some specific aspects of the book, its origins in the work of the Definition and Terminology Committee of AECT, and its principal objective of publicizing, explaining, and justifying the AECT's recently adopted official definition. But, first, I must present a mini-review of its content and structure. I start by quoting the new definition
