Before, technology was strictly held by an elite few.  But as it evolved, so are its roles for each sector.  One significant pattern was technology’s grasp in the business sector; then, from business to education, and to the emergence of Educational Technology.

 Now, how did the transition from business- to education-sector commenced?  The fact here is: education sector is one of the primary sources of employment skill (human-resource).  The education sector’s well known role was to actively facilitate the meeting of the needs of the economy and society (as a whole) through students’ technological education.

To make this role or function possible, the education sector took its technological integration at its deepest roots, and made it inhabit the grand branches of competency development.  All this effort is relatively characteristic of its function, but it will be way easier to digest if everyone’s to call it with its concept-name, Educational Technology.

Now, as recipients of this technology, students are to expect more than the separate computer class.  Instead, at a certain level of their education, they are to meet opportunities of practicing various technological applications and harnessing technological skills at various subjects.

In other words, with technology, students are to learn to put their mathematical analysis unto basic (and even advanced) programming, as well as learn to use some media-related technology to create interactive teaching systems (for education majors).  Those are just a few examples; in fact, it would be difficult not to link any other discipline with any technology.  

In sum, students and the education sector are able to fully assimilate the grasp, diversity, as well as the limitations of technology.  Consequently, in the midst of Educational Technology, students’ assumptions of its strength and weaknesses are formed.  What’s more, they are given the confidence to work around and off it.