Technology and Innovation Magazine Issue 2023/ 2024 Back Issue

From typewriters to tape machines, from TVs to
computers, the story of technology in education
once amounted to a timeline of labour-saving devices
deployed (resources depending), in ways that let
teaching staff and administrators accomplish more in
less time, and with steadily improving outcomes.
Sure, computer science teachers might have been
kept on their toes by the determination of some
12-year-olds to play games on those whizzy new BBC Micros – but for the most
part, the volume, expense, complexity and relative scarcity of the technologies
in question largely ensured they would only be used by approved personnel for
their intended purpose.