If the term 'technology' is understood as "orchestration of phenomena for some purpose" then the definition of 'educational technology' will be devoted mostly to describing that purpose, and the three paragraph definition (view here) offered by the 26 authors of this article (20 page PDF) describes it as a process where "learning and meaning-making are enabled, mediated, supported, and transformed." Most of the definition attends to peripheral - and parochial - concerns. For example, it addresses who is included: "researchers, practitioners, educators, communities, and institutions," that is, everyone but students. And for example, it offers "a core commitment that its theory, research and practice should be ethically grounded and critically reflexive," which honestly I see as an empty declaration absent a statement of what constitutes 'ethical' and 'critically reflexive'.
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