Technology Benefit Education?

    

    Education and technology seem to be getting more and more intertwined with each quarter that passes. I can remember close to the beginning of my education journey that the most technological thing found in the classroom was the calculator. At that time many debates seemed to be occurring about its usage and how students would become less capable by relying on this crutch. Now it seems that piece of technology is now the lowest piece of tech in classrooms. These days we now have computers with capability of solving problems with such ease and speed only dreamt about a couple decades. If calculators inhibited a student's capability to be self reliant, how do student's today compare to back those pre-calculator times?

     Calculators provided the answers in the past, now students have the whole internet at their disposal. Many websites have a sole purpose of helping students get ahead in school. These websites do everything feared by educators in the past that the calculator would do to student's ability to learn. Not only do students now have access to the final answer, but they also have the steps that lead them to the answer. Technology has opened the window to allow students to work much less hard on assignments then previously. The question now is if this technology is doing as initially billed as its purpose: provide more time to make more progress. Which ideology is correct, technology is a crutch or a tool? Ultimately, the real answer comes down to the individual that uses them. If a student uses them as tools in the manner the technology is intended, it is indeed beneficial. However, if technology is just used to get something finished, the technology then has become a hinderance to educational progress.