It was always expected a few years back that the use of technology in education can play a major role in improving the quality of education in schools and colleges. Now, standing in 2017, we can easily say that that’s exactly what it’s doing right now.
With the inculcation of avant-garde techs like augmented and virtual reality, the quality of lessons has just gone off the roofs. Hence, you can see that there’s absolutely no doubt that education technology is really making all the differences in the world. At the same time, it is also playing a major role in transforming classroom education for good.
Now, in this article, we’ll discuss the different impacts of education technology on classroom education in greater detail. So let’s begin.
1. Education
technology has helped to take the lessons beyond the walls of the
classrooms
The inculcation of mobile devices along with mobile data and a steady WiFi connection has contributed a lot in this aspect. Even a computer practical class can be taken outside the walls of the school lab now, thanks to the advents of the mobile internet.
Want to write the code of a Java program? Why don’t you just sit under a tree and write it up on your iPhone? You’ll just need a few apps for the platform, and that will be it. Education technology has made this possible.
2. Mobile
devices are replacing books
Textbooks are slowly becoming a thing of the past now. The growing popularity of the mobile internet is already getting them close to extinction. Here’s the reason. “What do you want to learn? Do you want to learn algebra? Or do you want to learn the three different (Newton’s) laws of motion?”
No matter what you want, the internet can help you with that. Remember these two words “just Google” and the matters’ solved right on the very spot itself. Technology has made it possible for you to learn ANYTHING you want, starting from the first world war to Newton’s laws of motion and everything in between even from the top of the Mount Everest*, provided you have a working device and an internet connection to get on it.
So you can see that the advent of education technology has brought information right at your fingertips. If this is not a benefit, we seriously don’t know what is.
*Although it will seemingly be impossible to get WiFi on Mt. Everest; it’s definitely available anywhere inside a city. So did the tech really transform classroom education? The answer’s a no-brainer.
3. Educational
technology has improved student engagements in classrooms
The inculcation of education technology in classrooms has actually changed the role of a teacher and student. Students have become more energetic, more enthusiastic to learn the matter on his/her own. This is a positive thing indeed because maximum student engagements generate more results in the long run. Teachers, on the other hand, has become more like a facilitator of information than a dispenser of information. This also has an overall positive influence on education as a whole.
4. Educational
technology has brought in more collaboration in classrooms
Collaboration is an important part of education indeed. It’s something that goes a long way indeed, especially at the later stages of our professional life. With the help of Classroom Technology students can collaborate more with teachers or with their classmates on a particular task and will be able to finish the same in their designated time frame. Collaboration teaches teamwork which is another life skills capable of making a difference in the nearly foreseeable future.
5. Education
technology provides for a more personalized learning
With the aid of education technology, teachers will be able to customize their lessons in a manner such that it can benefit every student in particular in a class full of fifty to hundred students in general. So the concept of “learning at your own pace” is finally seeing daylight after all these hours of darkness.
So you see educational apps, games, e-learning courses etc. are all there right at your fingertips; thanks to the wonders of technology. How you learn a subject isn’t something that matters anymore on 2017. What is important is the fact that you do.