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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

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

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.

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.