Technology_In_Education

Technology In Education Background of Technology in Education Over the past decade, many new technologies have been developed that have changed the way we live. Many of these same technologies have been finding their way into America’s classrooms. These technologies promise to change the way we educate in a similar manner that they have changed the way we do business. Most schools are still designed for the industrial or even the agrarian era. These schools will have to change in order to prepare students for the future instead of the past. Although it may be hard to believe that technology could have such an effect on the education process, several years ago, “we had the same controversy whether the computer would transform work, and critics argued that all those investments were a waste” (Symonds, 2000, pg. 118). The idea of using technology to enhance education is not new. In 1971, Seymour Papert, a influential professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that every student should be given a computer in order to provide them with the kinds of experiences that teachers are seeking for their students (Online, 2000). Educators have moved with surprising speed to technology, students, school, schools, teachers, new, education, computers, computer, student, internet, learning, access, percent, program, technologies, information, teacher, one, every, educational, 2001, 2000, way, training, using, should, says, need, digital, classroom, take, ohler, now, divide