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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

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

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.