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Whenever we talk about technology we usually think in the newest phone or computer.  However, as future teachers we have to start relating the use of technology with a pedagogycal purpose.
Furthermore, in order to understand the importance of educational technology it would be necessary to learn about history and the way that humans used to learnt.

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The very first way of teaching and learning 

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The very first way of teaching and learning 

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Oral communication

In ancient times, the formal teaching was through human speech. Everything was transmitted by oral communication so memorization was a vital and fundamental skill to the process of learning. Also, people used to learn from each other.

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An interesting video to watch. In this video Dario Sztajnszrajber mentions how written documents was given to society, according to Platon.

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Programa Municipal Historia Oral y Memorias Locales

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By the fifth century, a number of writen documents existed and people started to study documents instead of memorized and repeated it.

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During this period a lot of new devices were introduced to society such as electronic projectors and presentational software that were not create it with an academic purpose but later on, it would became a tool for teaching.

A key agent of change

The invention of printing press became written knowledge available for everyone.

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Just a link to an enjoyable note about  transcribing historical hand written documents into a digital way.

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The process of classifying and indexing present day documents is fairly easy. However, storing historical documents such as birth/death records, parish details and marriage records in different and in old fashioned writing styles can be complex and challenging. Often these archived records are handwritten, writing style incomprehensible, lacks clarity and they do not fit into any standard templates.

But it is important to extract, index, and digitize these records to unlock the information trapped within these manuscripts. Cleaning and breaking down the information hidden in the dog eared paper based files and making them available for larger consumption is crucial.

With the advent of smart digital technologies in document preservation and storage, organization leverage data transcription solutions such as digitization, scanning, indexing, preservation and automation of the required information often in multi languages.

Organizations are turning to trusted scanning services to convert many of their ancient documents into digital formats that are easy to store and retrieve quickly. Also digitizing these key records enables them to be accessed from anywhere and indexing affords easy search facility. And the flexibility that comes with scanning permits for the entire book/photo/manuscript to be captured without any size limitations. Imaging allows capturing the paper based records into graphical images which can be indexed and searched as well.

SBL has ten years of experience in transcribing historical hand written documents into electronic formats. It has successfully digitized billions of age-old records dating back to 1700 AD with unerring accuracy and quality.

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Historical Document Conversion: The Digital Way - SBL Knowledge Services Ltd

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The process of classifying and indexing present day documents is fairly easy. However, storing historical documents such as birth/death records, parish details and marriage records in different and in old fashioned writing styles can be complex and challenging. Often these archived records are handwritten, writing style incomprehensible, lacks clarity and they do not fit into any standard templates.

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The first formal correspondence education

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The first formal correspondence education

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With the improvements of transport and the creation of a reliable postal system in the 1840s, the University of London was able to offer an external degree program by correspondence from 1858.

This first formal distance degree program still exists today in the form of the University of London Worldwide.

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for
schools in the 1920s.

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The Print Workshop in the fifteeth century

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The Print Workshop in the fifteeth century

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To know more about printing process and other interesting facts

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The Print Workshop in the Fifteenth Century

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Not only knowledge, but also history was transmitted through communication

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Not only knowledge, but also history was transmitted through communication

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Government and BBC established the 'Open University'

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Government and BBC established the 'Open University'

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The goal was to which worked in order to develop university programs open to all, using a combination originally of printedmaterials specially designed by OU staff, and television and radio programs made by the BBC but
integrated with the courses.

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Nowadays, we are able to access to O.U. and all the programs they created by just a link.

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Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education.

The use of television for education quickly spread around the world, being seen in the 1970s by some, particularly in international agencies such as the World Bank and UNESCO, as a panacea for education in developing countries.

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Online learning environments

In 1995, the Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems provide an online teaching environment, where content can be loaded and organized, as well as providing ‘spaces’ for learning objectives, student activities, assignment questions, and discussion forums.

The first fully online courses (for credit) started to appear
in 1995, some using LMSs, others just loading text as PDFs or slides. The materials were mainly text and graphics.

LMSs became the main means by which online learning was offered until lecture capture systems arrived around 2008.

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Social media are really a sub-category of computer technology, but their development deserves a section of its own in the history of educational technology.

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An interesting note about the positive impact of social media on education

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Is screen time really idle time? What can teachers learn from the way people use digital platforms and how it shapes their learned behaviour? How can social media be used in education?

How is social media used by students?

Social media and education may seem like polar opposite at times. However, not all students use the available channels as a source of procrastination or a platform for spreading unverified theories. In fact, Dr Simone Smala, a senior lecturer in the UQ School of Education, has observed important links between the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and common human environments for learning.

"Who'd have thought that a trending social media phenomenon and educational psychology were linked?" she says.

"It's amazing how much of what we see teaches us lessons on a daily basis. My teaching area is educational psychology, where we look at different learning theories and I'm fascinated by how learning happens in so many different places. Social media platforms are a prime example of that."

"We can observe how fundamental ideas in learning theories play out on social media. These are theories that I use to equip my students to be educators of tomorrow."

The positive impact of social media on education

One theory is that humans learn most noticeably through observing social processes, linked to situations, environments and actions that feel familiar. This would certainly add weight to the notion that not all scroll time is detrimental and demonstrate why social media is important for students. It also opens up discussion about social media as an educational tool.

"Take the Bin Isolation Outing on social media... where people were dressing up in costumes or making elaborate videos of themselves putting their rubbish bins outside when COVID-19 restrictions were at their highest," says Simone.

"It's deeper than people being playful or silly. It's about feeling part of something larger on a community or global stage. It connects people. There are messages in the Bin Isolation Outing posts about kindness, of being helpful, appreciating others, and sharing in the fact we are social animals who enjoy interaction."

"It may be unintended, but it is via phenomena like this that young people look for messages or guidance of how to be an adult, how to hold yourself and how to communicate with others."

As with other forms of communication, the Bin Isolation Outing quickly developed in its complexity and took on new meanings as it was disseminated more widely and commonly. The trending behaviour may have started with a single post, but it was in the many responses where the meaningfulness of the activity was placed in its full context.

"People watched others and learned how to create posts that attracted attention. The learning occurred organically and vicariously," says Simone.

"When people first saw the trend, it really resonated with them and it provided a stimulus for them to take it upon themselves, do something, and add to the dialogue."

"As an educator, you step back and analyse what were the messages and emotions that were conveyed and how did it grasp people's attention enough to want to respond."

Simone says one of her guiding tenets is to consider students not just as previously empty vessels filled with meaning and content, but as apprentices to a new world who shape the future through their interactions and the personal characteristics they bring.

Own the unknown in education at UQ.

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Is screen time really idle time? What can teachers learn from the way people use digital platforms and how it shapes their learned behaviour? How can social media be used in education? Social media and education may seem like polar opposite at times.

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It's being used for short educational clips that can be downloaded and integrated into online courses.

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The impact of the Internet on education as a paradigm shift; what distinguishes the digital age from all previous ages is the rapid pace of technology development and our immersion in technology-based activities in our daily lives.