Technology Impact On Education

In the past years and for many decades, the schools system has offered one type of teaching model, which is education in classrooms. As time passes, the number of population worldwide increases and new models of teaching starts to appear. As environment changes, a new era of technology and internet begin to appears, therefore, education will not be limited anymore in classrooms. However; people from baby boomers and generation x would prefer the traditional education, in which is teaching would be limited in classrooms.

Few centuries ago, a student would get education through traditional method of teaching in classrooms. Students would learn through listening and observing. However, nowadays technology impacted student’s education life

Computers in school and educational institutions made the process of teaching and learning easier and pleasurable. Providing education for students beyond the walls of educational institutions will be very efficient and effective, because it gives students the opportunity to learn from different sources and different perspective, which will later, will enhance their life experience. In the past, communication between the teacher and the student existed only in classrooms. Now, through internet students can communicate with their teachers outside the classrooms and get information without face to face education. Therefore, students can communicate with their teachers in an easy and fast way. Internet helped students to get education, through accessing to various types of information and do efficient research by getting the right type of information from many sources available in the internet, such as: journals, books and news. The access of internet by different types of electronics saved student’s time from going into the walls of educational institutions searching through dusts for specific book. Technology really made a great impact on education, in the past, students expressed themselves in papers and pencils and teachers expressed themselves through explaining on board, however; nowadays students express their work in form of presentations and projects. It’s easier now for students to carry Ipads and eBooks, instead of carrying heavy books. Unlike the past, students now can get education anywhere, students do not have to wait to enter classrooms and get education. Students can access to digital libraries through search engines anywhere and get the piece of information they need. In addition, online education broke the rule of getting education only in classrooms. Through online education, students worldwide would create and share the same classroom. Many educational institutions offer online courses, in