User:Learning to use Technology

Educational technology direct effects on instruction, are probably less important in the long run than the ways in which teachers change their assumptions about what a classroom looks like, feel like and how students interact when technology is added to the classroom. Students' learning of thinking skills or of factual material through multimedia programs may ultimately be less significant than weather the new technologies encourage them to be active or passive participants in the civic life of a democratic society. If technology changes the way in which information is shared with a school, it may thus change the distribution of power in that school and thereby modify fundamentally how the school does it work. Thus technology may change the relationships between schools and communities, bringing them closer together.