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The world of technology has had a significant impact on education and has changed the entire educational landscape. No longer is the teacher standing at the blackboard, she’s now teaching via video conference and using Blackboard to facilitate online discussions

Now getting the right notebook for school requires a trip to your electronics retailer and can set parents back thousands of dollars. Technology has definitely changed the way students learn

Technology has erased the physical boundaries that used to govern schools and education. Students can now study from home with education technology that allows teacher and student to interact remotely

Using Internet and computers as en effective medium to establish communication between schools, teachers, students and parents; educational institutes have been able to handle many issues that were previously not handled with ease due to geographical limitations or lack of adequate training technologies.

A majority of teachers have stated a very surprising fact that introducing technologies in classroom has increased peer to peer interaction.

Many teachers have a common complaint that negative habits of students are more exacerbated due to the use of technology. In countries like the US, where assignments and homework are required to be submitted online, students tend to forget common email etiquette like salutation and sometimes, even adding texts in the attachments! Moreover, the trend of last day submissions has now transformed into last hour, last minute submissions. Students submit their assignments even hours after the time for submission is over and their emails don't contain any explanation or a note of apology.

Educational technology research always had an ambitious agenda. Sometimes it only aims at increased efficiency or effectiveness of current practise, but frequently it aims at pedagogical change. While it can be considered as a design science it also addresses fundamental issues of learning, teaching and social organization and therefore makes use of the full range of modern social science and life sciences methodology.

First large scale usage of new technologies can be traced to US WWI

Content vs. communication

Early computers broke communication boundaries, but the boundaries were nonexistent once the Internet was easily accessible via computers. Web cams allow people thousands of miles apart to see and talk to whomever they please. Classrooms have adopted distance-learning programs across the world. For instance, a teacher located in Japan can teach a classroom of students located in England via web cam technologies. Colleges also use websites to post news and assignments for their students, and students can contact professors and submit assignments via websites and email. Online colleges completely rely on computer and Internet technologies.

c. 1925 – Radio <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11360" title="radio" src="http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/radio.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="377"/>New York City’s Board of Education was actually the first organization to send lessons to schools through a radio station. Over the next couple of decades, “schools of the air” began broadcasting programs to millions of American students.

By the early sixties, there were more than 50 channels of TV which included educational programming that aired across the country.

Social Media and Collaboration

Today's technology tools also support what experts understand about the social nature of learning. "Technology resources for education . . . function in a social environment mediated by learning conversations with peers and teachers

Yet news of the treaty had not reached the United States before the opposing troops met in New Orleans.  The battle had been a terrible waste.  People died because information about the peace treaty traveled so slowly. VOICE TWO: From the beginning of human history, information traveled only as fast as a ship could sail. Or a horse could run. Or a person could walk

On November second, nineteen twenty, radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania broadcast the first radio program.  That broadcast gave the results of a presidential election.

Political leaders also discovered that radio was a valuable political tool.  It permitted them to talk directly to the public.  If you had a radio, you did not have to wait until your newspaper arrived.  You could often hear important events as they happened.