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The Impact Of Technology On Education

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The contemporary world prides itself on being technologically advanced more than any other recorded society in the history of humankind. One of the most prominent channels that technology has been able to assert its influence is in the digitalization of every perspective of human life. Most of the human activities have adopted a technology; a move normally referred to as digitizing, in their operation. Education has not been left behind. There has been an incorporation of the digital process of learning at all level of education. The process has had a very large influence on the field of education today.
Before the introduction of technology in education, learning was being done based on the old tried and tested ways. Learning was done strictly on books and person to person interaction. The teacher appeared in class in person and physically took the students through a step to step learning. This was accompanied by the use of pen and paper to take down the information that had been gained from the tutor (Garrison, 2003).
The advent of technology altered this prior process. Technology introduced a digital way of learning that was different from the old means through which learning took place. Under the new paradigm of learning, there is little reliance on the physical presence of a tutor. Much of the learning occurs on line through the digital systems. Tutors are now able to send notes to their students through the online media platform without having to appear in the

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