How technology has changed the way we learn

For centuries the learning experience has hardly changed; if you moved a tutor from one century to another, they would probably cope with little change. However, if you moved someone from at least forty years ago to present day, then the experience would be worlds apart. In thirty years the whole learning style has evolved; with the introduction of ICT the blackboard and chalk has been retired and replaced by interactive white boards with mobile devices. Technology has expanded to learning to the masses; a tutor can potentially have an interactive class of infinite amount. The World Wide Web allows instant access to resource material that is in depth and broad. Modern day learners tend to rely on the internet, could this potentially have a negative affect? An exasperated French teacher keeps telling her pupils “Google cannot speak French; it hasn’t been to school and learnt!” (Jones, 2013), the use of translators cannot deduce meaning to a word, resulting in a nonsensical sentence. Technology has radicalised the way we learn and teach. We constantly have to adapt to advancements and keeping current is now the big consideration. We are where we are now with technology but where will it lead us in another thirty years...