Prop 1729

The new millennium has brought about sweeping technological change. Since the innovation of the Internet and more recently tablets, we have had access to an immense amount of information from almost anywhere and we can have it instantly. This has had implications on education. Some argue that we should use the Internet to bring the classroom out of the "brick-and-mortar" setting and have education more accessible to anyone while others are cautious to jump straight into this new world fearing that these teachers and students could use these resources as crutches used to stumble through their educational experience.

I argue that technology is a tool and that it can be used for good or evil. Therefore, the appropriate use of technology can guarantee a better education to its users. Despite the fact that it can be used as a crutch and does come with new problems of its own, those problems can be solved like any other new idea that needs kinks to be worked out. Higher education, K-12, and preschool professionals are testing the waters as I write. Although some might object that one doesn't need technology in order to educate, I would respond saying one doesn't need a calculator to do math, yet it helps when we're working with large numbers. I feel that technology in education needs attention because the current system as it is will seem archaic if new technology which has transformed almost all aspects of society is not introduced in a reliable way.