Unit 04 - Word Processing

Education By M.D. Roblyer|A. H. Doering — Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall Updated on Jul 20, 2010 The Impact of Word Processing in Education Collect This Article Why Teachers Use Word Processing Perhaps no other technology resource has had as great an impact on education as word processing. Not only does word processing offer high versatility and flexibility, it also is "model-free" instructional software; that is, it reflects no particular instructional approach. A teacher can use it to support any kind of directed instruction or constructivist activity. Since its value as an aid to teaching and learning is universally acknowledged, word processing has become the most commonly used software in education. It offers many general relative advantages (unique benefits over and above other methods) to teachers and students.