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TECHNOLOGY AS A LEARNING TOOL

By Garry Smith
August 21, 2017

Living in the era of technology, can you get away the purview of this thing? Technology
has devoted our days in vast methods. We are reliant upon it to complete every single irrelevant
need of ours. Can we consider our lives without technology? Can we evoke a single day where
we haven’t used technology in some variety or the other? If technology has saturated each and
every phase of our life, why should we depart education out of it? In this fast changing world,
education too cannot escape the influence of technology. The existence of the internet itself has
transformed the method through we access and broadcast information. From laptops, educational
apps or websites through which you can hire a private home tutor to online courses, technology
has changed the appearance of education today. Looking back at this change, here’s a list of ten
methods through which technology has affected education.

Making a worldwide Platform

No longer restricted to a single platform, education assisted by technology has crossed
boundaries and continents. A number of institutions are now giving online courses that can be
used by students all over the world. Video chatting and applications like Skype have produced a
global platform of teachers and students who can distribute knowledge in a simple and suitable
way.

Competent judgment
More and more institutions have now digitalis their evaluation process. Students now
take online tests that allow them to instantly review their capability. E-tests are flexible and
unbiased. A student can take an online test, according to his or her accessibility. This has
specifically helped students who practice distance or correspondence classes. Eradicating the
human component, e-assessments are fair and more trustworthy than traditional tests.

Enhanced Student-Teacher communication

More and more professors are now using technical aids to keep in touch with their
students. Teachers stay in regular touch with their students through e-mails and facilities like
Dropbox that permits you to upload and distribute content with a huge number of students.

Immediate Access to Information

Knowledge is now in the palm of our hand. No longer restricted to course books, anyone
can now have access to a range of information within seconds.

E-books
Online libraries and e-books are now in trend. Google Library Project is the perfect
example of this. Google has been working with distributors and libraries to make an exclusive
online library that is wide-ranging, flexible and practical. Traits like Google Books offer
oddments of a big amount of books, thus taking together new books and publishers to the
readers. Credit goes to the Internet, publishers and readers can now find out each other with the
aid of a single click!

Play stations and Video Games

Replicating real life troubles, video games can bring about behavioral changes in the
students by creating them more goal-oriented. Play stations not only offer a wide range of
information but also begin students to be problem-solvers. While cracking theoretical problems,
students are allowed to coordinate their abilities while concurrently harvesting information.
While the adverse effects of an obsessive indulgence in video games have been encountered
many times, one cannot disprove the fact that video games, when played under proper
supervision can certainly be an enormous source of ‘edutainment’.

Use of Multimedia
Technology and media have surely banged the field of education. Use of animation,
videos, multimedia aids has converted traditional education methods by making it more
appealing, amusing and compelling.

Educational Websites and Mobile Applications

Mobile learning is the latest avatar of present education. A large number of websites and
mobile applications have already become admired means of education because of their
pioneering take on traditional education ways.

Attending Students’ Diversity

A variety of various educational tools, audio/visual stimulus, and animations, e-learning
elements demand to students with diverse learning styles. Some students do not react to
classroom learning which has often been called as ‘dis interesting and ‘unimaginative’. Such
students are efficiently tempted into studying via digital means which offer a perfect mingle of
fun and learning.

Students with particular requirements

It has been observed that students with particular needs are unable to respond to
traditional classroom culture. Keeping them in mind, a number of mobile applications have come
up in the market that looks to begin such students into the majority by assisting and allowing
them with digital educational aids. Computer technology and e-learning activities have really
helped in linking the gap between disabled students and the normal ones by building education
more reachable.

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