With technology rapidly advancing, the ways in which our people communicate changes as well.  Technology has been continuously evolving but educators and students are at a stand still about the ways in which technology should be interrogated education.
In the “education for all blog” a blog caught my interest that was addressing how high poverty stricken countries should utilize the growing technology of the growing world.  With cell phones, laptops, and projection monitors in almost every classroom of the developed countries.  As this blog entry has made clear to me, most developing countries are struggling to even get electricity in the classrooms.  Therefore, these less developed countries are in a interesting position to decide how the improving technology can be utilized.

I have been looking into the structure of schooling around the world and the complexity of education and teaching became really apparent to me. The structure of schooling has not been changed in over 100 years.  The system of all chairs facing forward, one teacher, all students sitting quietly attentively listen to the teacher lecture has become standard.  One factor that has dramatic changed the system is technology.
Access to broadband and Internet has been one of the most dramatic changes in the way students are educated, but the digital dived continues to grow.  In an era where the answer to a question is on a Google search away, students have been granted access to knowledge like never before. This blog, created by, Mary Burns, looks to address alternatives to the rapidly growing technology industry.

She ultimately suggests that connection to broadband can improve the education of student’s dramatically.  Furthermore, she found that showing direct results of improvement is extremely difficult.  Burns states, ” There is lack of research showing impact on learning, and there is still the issue of broadband connectivity, and most important, access to electricity (Burns, 2013).”  This has caused a huge struggle for teachers and students to argue for the use of technology.  The importance and relevance of technology is obvious but with out definitive signs, like test scores and standardized grading, the true benefits are overlooked.

But many places with often problematic broadband access—like India, many African countries, and Indonesia have excellent cellular networks and phone calls are extremely cheap. Across the globe, we are seeing more and more initiatives using cell phones for student learning.

Some of the largest global educational initiatives currently use feature phones as the essential component of their technology interventions. For instance, the core of Bangladesh’s  English in Action initiative involves personalized phone-based instruction in which English-language learners (both adults and students) can follow the course at their own speed. The mobile phone lessons recognize the learner’s phone number and pick up where the learner left off the next time they call in.

http://www.educationforallblog.org/education-and-technology/what-are-the-technology-options-for-low-income-countries