Is Technology Improving our Education?.
Before delving in and seeing if technology has bettered our education in the 21-century, we should probably go back and explore how it originated. Marcia Clemmitt, in the article Digital Education discharges that “Electronic computers were invented in the early 1940’s and used as early as 1943 for a wartime educational purpose — as flight simulators.” (Clemmitt 1012). Clemmitt, in her article states the nature of the first computers coming into use in order to shine light on the original purpose they had. Helping our men and women in the line of battle, but once computers came out it was time to find other applications this wonderful technology could be integrated amongst. Clemmitt writes that, “More schools have computers, but most are used for record-keeping, other administrative purposes.” (1011). Clemmitt, displays how things progress as time moves on by telling us that computers are moving their way into schools. Clemmit mentions that, “Schools sensibly start by giving the teacher a computer to serve as a grade book, communicate using websites and email and replace audio-visual…
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