How Technology Changed Education
How Technology Has Changed Education
Today’s education differs much from the education fifty years ago. One of the reasons they are so different is because of technology. In the past fifty years the world of technology has grown tremendously, affecting everything, including education. A few things that have been brought into the world of education are computers, video and digital equipment such as DVDs, digital cameras and recording devices. The technology also includes information presentation technologies which includes the Smart Board, and different interactive whiteboards. There are many more that schools did not have fifty years ago. Technology has been proven to help students achieve in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Each year teachers are instructed and challenged to meet AYP's (Adequate Yearly Progress) under the No Child left Behind Act of 2001. Technology gives educators one more tool to help them reach those goals. Students become engaged and can often times enable parent involvement at home. By the year 1989 nearly every school had computers in classrooms, affecting the education system very much because children of all ages had access to the internet thus expanding their knowledge. ("Answers.com") Computers have made an impact on achievements made across school systems. Schools commonly have media centers in the library where they can check out books and get on the computer. It is proven that students who use the internet have better researching skills, can communicate with a larger variety of people, and become overall better thinkers. With computers teachers can monitor a student’s progress or give them more individual help they need. It also provides the teacher with an extra instructor in the classroom. In the past, students learned to read using something called a primer, but now students have access to electronic books. It has a pen that when it touches a word, it sounds it out for the reader. When learning geography,
Today’s education differs much from the education fifty years ago. One of the reasons they are so different is because of technology. In the past fifty years the world of technology has grown tremendously, affecting everything, including education. A few things that have been brought into the world of education are computers, video and digital equipment such as DVDs, digital cameras and recording devices. The technology also includes information presentation technologies which includes the Smart Board, and different interactive whiteboards. There are many more that schools did not have fifty years ago. Technology has been proven to help students achieve in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Each year teachers are instructed and challenged to meet AYP's (Adequate Yearly Progress) under the No Child left Behind Act of 2001. Technology gives educators one more tool to help them reach those goals. Students become engaged and can often times enable parent involvement at home. By the year 1989 nearly every school had computers in classrooms, affecting the education system very much because children of all ages had access to the internet thus expanding their knowledge. ("Answers.com") Computers have made an impact on achievements made across school systems. Schools commonly have media centers in the library where they can check out books and get on the computer. It is proven that students who use the internet have better researching skills, can communicate with a larger variety of people, and become overall better thinkers. With computers teachers can monitor a student’s progress or give them more individual help they need. It also provides the teacher with an extra instructor in the classroom. In the past, students learned to read using something called a primer, but now students have access to electronic books. It has a pen that when it touches a word, it sounds it out for the reader. When learning geography,