Technology revolution in classrooms For those old enough to
remember, electronic technology in the classroom used to consist
of an overhead transparency projector, a 16 mm film projector, a
slide projector and a television. This also didn't mean each
classroom had one of each. This was when there was one of each
of those machines that had to be shared amongst all the
classrooms in the school. In addition, chalkboards were still
the medium by which teachers conveyed messages to students and
social networking meant sitting with your friends at the lunch
table in the cafeteria. But things have changed immensely in the
last 40 years and the last 20 they have advanced even more
quickly. When people think of computers as the technology boom
they are only partially correct; there is a lot more to it than
just that. "New technology has infiltrated every corner of the
classroom," said Scott McKnight, the director of technology for
Carbon School District. "It has become an unstoppable force."
Technology is a word that