importance of technology in education

[sgood]

How important is technology in Education?

[Lil O'lady]

If this a question that has been given to you to answer, it should initially be challenged ie are you looking for how technological developments affect school planning and classroom ergonomics; travel patterns; curricular content. Are you looking at how cantilever structures have affected school design, or how soft play areas have become possible / desirable?
How many words are you limited to?
If as i suspect the questionner means how important is IT, then you can look at developments such as the national education network (NEN) for secure broadband delivery to British schools, the development of interactive whiteboards and use of data projectors, the increased use of portable computers such as laptops and umpc's, and the use of secure interactive learning platforms that copy the social networking approach to enable easy personalised ciommunication between learner and teacher. Then look at how ownership of learning is potentially transformed by access to the internet but how organisations tend to lag behind in acknowledging this learning formally, thus actually falling into the trap of alienating the audiences they seek to enage through education.
Ultimately IT takes us back to the initial questions of 'what is education' and 'how do we measure / value / reward education' - deep philosophies that governments are terrified by.
If you want to include naff statements and get panned by your tutor for not quoting sources go to Youtube and search for 'shift happens' - a clip that makes extravagant claims about the impact of technology on education but as it is set to stirring music is taken very seriously.
Ooh i do go on. Nurse is here with my cocoa now and to do my pills. MMMMMM