Technologies in Education Across the Americas : The Promise and the Peril – and Some Potential Ways Forward

Trucano, Michael

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ICT;    education technology;   

RP-ID  :  113108

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

New information and communicationtechnologies (ICTs) have long been heralded around the worldfor their potential to 'revolutionalize'education. This has been true no matter the place or thespecific technologies considered whether we are talkingabout early promises related to the use of television andradio in past decades or the laptops and tablets of today.Excitement around this 'transformative' potentialis unlikely to subside in the near future: Devices will onlyget cheaper, and more powerful, in the coming years, and newtechnologies as yet un-invented will emerge to do thingsthat were previously possible only in the realm of sciencefiction. That said, while connected computing devices likelaptops, tablets and smartphones are increasingly to befound in the pockets and homes of many learners andteachers, slow-to-change formal education systems have ledmany people to observe that "technology is alreadyrevolutionizing education – just not in the classroom."