Education and Technology: The continuous evolution

John Dewey described education as a form of learning in which knowledge, skills and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research or simply through autodidacticism. Technology on the other hand was described as making, modification, usage and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. These are the definitions of education and technology that you can find when you browse these words in the internet.

According to Nelson Mandela, education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. And I do believe in his statement. Why? Because if we will compare the education system or the way of teaching from the past to present, I could say that it changed tremendously. Let us look back on how education in the past looks like.

Before technology was introduced, internet to be exact, humans already knew how to read and write. They used this method in order to transfer information from one generation to another. People in the ancient times used stone tablets, clay, tree barks or metal sheets to write information before paper was discovered. And after Ts'ai Lu discovered the paper in 105 AD, it had been used for writing and served as a material where informations are being stored. Books were then produced and used as a source of knowledge and even entertainment.

People started to write more about their thoughts and discoveries when books are introduced. Because of this, more books were published and bookstores or libraries were build. Bookstores sell a variety of books that customers would like to read. Libraries on the other hand were built to accommodate people who would like to read a book for free. Books can also be found in schools and used as a source of knowledge to the students.

Humans strive to discover and learn new things thus computer was discovered and internet was introduced. Slowly, technology is taking its part in the evolution of education. From reading books, people started using computer to gain data while others encode in it.

Through technology learning has been more easy for the current generation. We don't need to go in libraries or bookstores in order to find the books containing the information that we seek to learn. Instead, we simply search the information through the internet just by typing it and the data will pop-up in the screen in just seconds. With this technology, it gave us an advanced knowledge in order to discover more things in the future.


That is why, the combination of education and technology will have a continuous evolution. Thus, provide a higher knowledge in the future generations.