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Explore Some Of The Ways Technology Has Impacted The Education Industry

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Lesson 16 Discussion 1

In this discussion, students explore some of the ways technology has impacted the education industry. The most basic way that technology changed education is through the introduction of calculators in the early 1970’s by Texas Instruments. This author remembers when calculators were forbidden in classrooms. Math was done by hand on a piece of scratch paper that was turned in with tests or homework, and students were encouraged to “show your work”. Soon after, around 1984, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Computer with a whopping 128K memory capability. The Apple was often reluctantly added to classrooms by “old school” teachers who despised the computers because they would “make students minds lazy”. Fortunately,
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