How has technology been used in education?
For the most part I believe that technology has been used in education to enhance what teachers have already been doing. For example, the smart board is mostly used by teachers as a glorified white board. I myself use technology a LOT for enhancing my lessons. I use my iPad and AppleTV to project the math work on the board and then walk around my classroom to help my students with the work. Occasionally I let the students write on the iPad to demonstrate to their peers how they solved a particular problem.
How should it be used in the future?
I feel that continuing to use technology to enhance our lessons is still a good idea. We should also start looking towards using it to "redefine" our lessons. For example, rather than writing an article about a specific research topic, we can ask students to create a video of the topic. I don't believe that technology should replace everything we do in the classroom. However, I know that we can be creative and use it to help our students to understand concepts that they might not without it, become more engaged, and relate what they're learning to the real world.
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