Three issues shaping the role of technology in education include societal, educational, and cultural and equity issues. These issues are surrounded by society's most profound and problematic issues.
The societal issues shaping technology in education consist of economic conditions, anti-technology positions, and the impact of the NCLB Act of 2001. These issues are requiring that educators set priorities for education money that may not be available to use on any technology material that they want to use in the classroom. The educational issues are standard movement, reliance on the Internet and on distance education, and the debate over directed vs. inquiry-based, constructivist instructional methods. These educational issues play a major role in teaching and learning. The cultural and equity issues include Digital divide, Racial and gender equity, and special needs.All of these issues are changing educaation; but it can also divide members of of our society. That is why teachers play a vital role to make sure technology use promotes, rather than divide us.
Discuss three things we have learned from the history of technology that can help us shape today's use.
-Information Literacy- Society's increasing dependence on technology to communicate information means that students must learn the skills to use information technologies effectively.
-Privacy and safety- As more student data go online and students spend more time on athe Internet, measures have to be put in place to limit access to personal data and to protect students from online predators.
-Funding for educational technology- As technology costs grow and education wane, policy makers want to know and see how the spending can be justified.
The information used for this assignement came from Integrating Educational Tehnology Teaching, Fifth Edition
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