Monday, September 22, 2008

Relative advantage

Relative advantage is evident throughout the development of technology in education. Overhead projectors are an example of technological advancement used in schools. Projectors created an opportunity for teachers to show their students images related to the material they teach, which presents a learning enhancement.
Before this advancement, it was difficult to share images with students in the classroom. The emergence and popularity of computers has greatly replaced written work with the requirement of typed assignments.
It has also opened the door for the use of programs such as Power point, which allows students to create projects, replacing the previous use of poster board presentations. Power point allows students to streamline academic presentations and incorporate organization, visual and audio details. Additionally, Excel is a program that allows students to store and analyze data in a more effective manner. Excel has proven to be very useful in science classes.
Relative advantage in technology is a means of replacing old teaching methods with new, more user-friendly skills that allow students to express creativity while applying their knowledge of the material they learn in class.

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