The History of Technology in Schools

Since the 1820's technology has come a long way in classrooms all across the United States.  Over time, all subject areas have improved and modified their particular curriculum to incorporate activities and even add new standards that involve the use of technology.  During this historical time period, more particularly during the 1960's, language labs were introduced into foreign language classrooms.  These labs were a huge break through for foreign language teacher's classroom environments and for their content materials and activities.  From then on foreign language teachers were no longer limited to using lectures, chalkboards, and textbooks to teach grammar and culture.  With the use of language labs, students are now able to audio sound and images to help with language acquisition.  The use of  computers in these language labs has also opened up a bigger spectrum of possibilities to learn about the culture of the target language as well.  Over time the technologies and other types of media used in language labs have improved, which means that learning a new language has become easier and more fun then the traditional (lecture/textbook based) classroom environment that was used before language labs were introduced in the 1960's.