The Role Of Technology in Education

Authors: Assistant Professor Dr. Anuradha Hanumant Deshpande

Abstract: With the rise of technological innovations across various industries, the education sector has emerged as one of the most significantly impacted. In fact, technology has consistently played a prominent role in shaping education—from the early days of carving symbols and figures on cave walls, to the Gurukul system where students learned to use the tools and techniques of their time, and now to the integration of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) (Nishant, 2023). According to Ward, (2001) to understand the history of technology in education, one must first look at the origin of writing. Like the telegraph and computer, writing was once resisted by traditionalists because it was seen as unnatural. Plato was one leading thinker who was very much opposed to the use of writing in fear that it would weaken our memories (Clanchy, 1993). One can see the comparison today with spell and grammar checks on word processing programs as many educators believe that students lose the ability to spell and write grammatically correct sentences on their own. Those who believed in how the technology of writing could change lives for the better, however, balanced these pessimistic views.