Technological Advancements and Innovations in Education

Abstract

Technology is a divine gift. It is possibly God's greatest gift after the gift of life. It is the source of all cultures, the arts, and the sciences. Certainly, technology has altered the way we live. It has changed how people live and altered living in many ways. Without a question, technology is significant in all aspects of life. Thanks to technology, many manual chores can be automated. Additionally, with the aid of contemporary technology, many difficult and crucial activities may be completed more easily and effectively. The way we live has changed, and for the better, thanks to the application of technology. Technology has revolutionized the field of education. The importance of technology in schools cannot be ignored. In fact, with the onset of computers in education, it has become easier for teachers to impart knowledge and for students to acquire it. The use of technology has made the process of teaching and learning more enjoyable.

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset inputs that may be efficient, and time allocated to using technology may displace traditional classroom instruction and educational activities at home. However, much of the evidence in the schooling literature is based on interventions that provide supplemental funding for technology or additional class time, and thus favour finding positive effects. Nonetheless, studies of ICT and CAI in schools produce mixed evidence with a pattern of null results. Notable exceptions to this pattern occur in studies of developing countries and CAI interventions that target math rather than language. In the context of home use, early studies based on multivariate and instrumental variables approaches tend to find large positive (and in a few cases negative) effects while recent studies based on randomized control experiments tend to find small or null effects.