Times have changed and technology has reached too far. Now it is the time, educational system needs to be changed and should be modernized. Technology is an increasingly influential factor in today’s educational system. Computers and mobile phones are used in developed countries both to complement established education practices and develop new ways of learning such as online education. This gives students the opportunity to choose what they are interested in learning. This online technology also helps students to learn from their home, offices or from the place they feel convenient. They can get access to each and everything through World Wide Web.

Education is probably the most important thing in life and it has also become the basic necessity in every person’s life. In order to live life with dignity one needs to have some kind of educational qualifications. Education has undergone many changes over the past two decades at all levels. Many of the changes have undergone due to the increasing number of technological advancements in the ways teachers educate and the ways that students learn. The greatest technological achievement to enter the educational realm has been the creation of the PC. One of the first PC to be used in the classroom for educational purposes was introduced by Macintosh.

In the mid 1960's computers were about the huge size. Nowadays, in an elementary school classroom a computer can be found for every four kids. Still with the advancement of technology on what seems to be a daily rate, the integration into education raises a lot of questions. Many of the questions, which are raised in today's culture, deal with equity and teacher comprehension. The question is asked in today's world how do we improve the integration of technology in education and address all the issues at the same time.

To improve education, one must first recognize that technology is the main instrument which one should make use of. Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft Incorporated, believes in creating learning communities to enable students as well as teachers, parents, and administrators to enhance their knowledge of today's technological advances. Gates feels these technological learning communities will remove the distance between computers and people and allow individuals to expand and explore only what they could imagine. However, the integration of computers and other types of technology does not replace what a teacher can do. Such processes in the learning communities can and will only be accomplished if and only if teachers comprehend and integrate such exercises into daily learning objectives.

Current trends in Educational Technology offer quite an array of subject matter to study. Educational technology enhances the learning opportunities by demonstrating how certain actions should be done so that students can imitate them, and diagnosing student's errors and making suggestions which help modify their actions so as to correct those errors. New technologies link classrooms to the world and provide students with far more intelligent tools of inquiry and teachers with much more comprehensive resources of response and stimulation.

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