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.
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