Technology Evolution, ISTE Standards and Digital Natives
It is almost obvious that technologies change and evolves dramatically over the decades. This has a great impact on our life, work and also the way of teaching and learning. The change is not only on the surface that we are now using laptops to compose an essay while we were using typewriters before; we are now putting all the resources online in a Learning Management System while we stored books in the library (we still do) and handouts in the binders. The change is not only about using/ not using technologies, but it is a change in the way we interact and process information. In the pre-Internet era, information was centralized in the newspaper, library, and even taverns. In the early stage of the Internet era, we go to web portals like Yahoo to get access to news and the information. However, social media decentralized our way of receiving and sharing information, as well as the way of building the social network. The development of visual design and the reduction o...