Warm Up

For the past two weeks, I have been looking into the history of the relationship between Education and Technology. What did I find? Well, the relationship went as far back as the 1900s and got a lot of attention at the onset of World War II (according to text). But my intuition tells me that Education and Technology have been working hand-in-hand since people developed language and writing and from there the relationship evolved into something else and from there it evolved into another concept and branched off and evolved into Instructional Design and Technology. Today, the relationship between Education and Technology is about creating interactive lessons that focus on the needs of individual learners while using technology, if necessary. Instructional Design and Technology is not all about using computers to teach information. In fact, the computers are there to make the delivery of the lesson more productive and to automate time-consuming manual processes.