Certainly technology has always impacted both students and teachers in the classroom. The invention of Guttenberg’s printing press in brought the printed word to the masses and made learning more accessible to the common man. The introduction of the pocket calculator professionals and students from the slide rule and made learning and performing mathematical calculations much less time consuming. Fast forward to today and the technological opportunities are stunning. Students today carry around cellular phones that are far more powerful and magnitudes smaller in size than many of the first computers. Too often many of these technologies, cellular phones, personal music and portable video game systems are seen as distractions in the classroom. However there is an upside; there exist many technologies which have the opportunity to significantly impact the instructional experiences of all students.Information is now avialable in new and exciting ways.
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