Technology In Education
As the world heads into the twenty-first century, innovative types of technology are rapidly growing and changing more than ever before. Not only is technology, like computers and personally owned devices like cell phones, tablets, etc., moving and advancing with new applications coming out, but this technology is beneficial to everyday lives by making tasks easier. For example, having a banking application on ones smart phone makes checking savings and other accounts easier. Instead of going into the bank, one can pull it up on their cell phone. Aaron Smith, a researcher for the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, states “Eighty five percent of American adults now own a cell phone of some kind” (Smith 2) and according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of homes with cell phones increased from 36 percent to 71 percent between 1998 and 2005 (Edwards 1), and that was just in 2005. Estaminets for the number of cell phone owners around the world come close to about six billion people (Smith 2). Cell phones are not the only technology increasing. Other technologies like iPads, tablets and other personally owned devices make daily tasks easier by increasing the rate of access to information. Technology’s job is to help society make activities, like finding information, faster and easier. Due to the abundance of technology in our world, children are growing up learning how to use these tools, and expecting them to be apart of their day to day lives much like how technology is becoming a crucial part to their parents every day life. This includes seeing and using different types of technology at school.
The expectation of having up to date and innovative learning has challenged the way schools must go ab...
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