Influences of Technology

Globalization accelerates the change of technology. Technology is now the forefront of the modern world creating new jobs, innovations, and networking sites to allow individuals to connect globally. The timeline below shows the rapid transformation of how technology has accelerated within the last 20 years to 2012.

·  18 years ago: Internet commercialized

·  17 years ago: first mobile phone with Internet connectivity

·  15 years ago: Google named the search engine of choice by PC magazine

·  12 years ago: Blackberry launched

·  9 years ago: Facebook launched

·  7 years ago: Twitter launched

·  6 years ago: iPhone, the first of the smart phones, introduced

·  5 years ago: Groupon introduced

·  2 years ago: 17 million smart tablets sold — estimated that 100 + million by 2014

·  1 year ago: Google Glass announced

·  Every 60 seconds (so it seems): new apps, tailored to users’ specific needs created (York, 2015)

The use of IT to deliver lessons or training from instructors in one location to students in another is frequently called “distance learning.” Distance learning has been around for a long time. Over the past decade, computers and Internet connections have been widely deployed in classrooms, from pre-K through the university level. Lessons delivered through computers can be interactive, which gives students real-time feedback on their work and enables them to work at their own pace (York, Issues In Depth - Technology - Education, 2015).

In summary, technology has advanced the ways that people can pursue the furthering of their education and educational resources. It has impacted the ways people now research and develop new ideas based on others who have researched across the world. As before the technological leaps, there was no ability to share research data and results worldwide like it is now. I see technology being able to bridge us together more and more in the future.

References

The Levin Institute - The State University of New York (2015). Issues In Depth - Technology. Retrieved from Globalization 101: http://www.globalization101.org/category/issues-in-depth/technology/

The Levin Institute - The State University of New York (2015). Issues In Depth - Technology - Education. Retrieved from Globalization 101: http://www.globalization101.org/education/