There have been few major long-term studies on the effectiveness of technology in education. Lots of technology-and little proof of results. Also by 2008, nearly 100% of public schools had Internet access.
public schools had one computer for every 92 students by 2008 the ratio was 1 to 3.1. Scholars will be instructed through the eye." In the 1920s, radios became prevalent in classrooms, allowing "schools of the air" to broadcast lessons to millions of American students.ĭuring the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, classroom computers began to take off. In the beginning of the 20th century, early forms of the projector prompted Thomas Edison to predict, "Books will soon be obsolete in schools. Even after it became possible to reproduce teaching materials, the lecture remained entrenched in the classroom setup.Įventually new technologies arrived to help teachers present information to students.
Gutenberg and the printing press were still 100 years in the future, and teachers were human textbooks. All the way, in fact, to medieval universities of the 14th century. You may not have thought about it much back in seventh-grade history as you struggled to keep your eyes open during a review of key Revolutionary War battles, but the concept of a classroom in which a teacher stands at the front to deliver a lesson goes back a long way.
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