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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.

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

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

Glogster is a platform where students can create a multimedia "glog" or poster to demonstrate what they know and understand about a topic.

Voice recognition software has improved greatly in the past few years and is more accessible. Children with special needs and limited English proficiency are able to more effective communicate in language based contexts

Technology facilitates our ability to extend classroom community by using web-based platforms like Edmodo.  Teachers and students can use this platform to discuss homework, post assignments, and interact with peers as they work on projects.

As technology has progressed, it has vastly accelerated the speed of business communications. Instead of having to wait a week for a file to be delivered by mail, information can be instantaneously transferred via email or file sharing programs. Orders for products and services can be placed and processed with an automated system online, allowing employees to spend time on other work instead of individualized order communications and for customers to get confirmation on their orders and payments right away.

Because of things like smart phones, email, text messaging and instant messaging, information can be sent very quickly to anyone, anywhere. This has altered accessibility in a multitude of ways. People can work or communicate from anywhere and at any time. While this can expedite business communication, it can also cause work to be all encompassing, potentially having a negative impact personal lives.

for example, a manager can send a meeting agenda to the whole office with one e-mail, a process that once would have required typing a memo, making copies, and distributing them to each desk.

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.

The all government all the time television network has allowed for the average voter to see their elected representatives at work

Twitter, blogs, CNN, and other forms of instant communications have also helped change the way government communicates. CNN allows politicians to have press conferences the moment something happens rather than three or four hours down the road. This has led politicians to be prepared for any and all situations at any given moment. Other forms of instant communication allow for an individual politician to update the people he represents instantly. The best part is he also is able to receive feedback from the voters. While criticism is inevitable a part of the political process, some good does come out of being able to communicate directly with your representatives

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.