{"id":690,"count":7,"description":"From the time of Plato, educators have struggled with the acquisition of knowledge, seeking it to be understood by the learner versus just assimilated as dogma. And since Plato\u2019s time, educational technology \u2013 from the written word to the printed book to the chalkboard \u2013 has been hailed as the solution to this challenge. Each successive technology had impact, though often not the type or scale that the introducer hoped.\r\n\r\nNow we come to the digital age, where electronic information and communication technologies (ICT) are the newest promise to empower learners to understand and interact with society. Radio, TV, and now computers and the Internet are profoundly changing civilization, as we know it. Can they have the same impact on education?","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/archive\/ict-in-schools\/","name":"ICT in Schools","slug":"ict-in-schools","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}