Impact of technology in Education
We are living in a technological era where we have witnessed so many changes and developments. In every field, we can see the influence of technology and the way we are depending on technological devices.
In every field, whether it is commercial, economical, marketing ,science or educational technology has shown its deep impact and the people are completely depending on technology.
We can’t ignore it because it has given us so many techniques and skills to make our life easy going and achieve our dreams without much stress and strain.
When we take educational field at first the educationalist didn’t accept technological influence because they thought that it will divert the students mind from learning but as time passed, we understood that we must accept its techniques because as we are living in a technological era.
it is really important to be skilled with technological skills and in every field there is already a deep impact of technology.
So the new generation must be able to face the challenges and needs of the new modern era. So technological influence was accepted wholeheartedly and it made a positive impact on education.
It helped to present quality education and helped to change the teaching process and made student-friendly learning-teaching process. It not only helped students in learning but also helped teachers to provide quality education with the help of technological devices.
Increased quality in teaching
As in the past teachers gave important to textbooks and classroom and they presented textbook oriented teaching process but as time passed the preference changed now it is student-centered teaching process. With the help of technological devices, the teacher is able to apply new methods and techniques in teaching which presented quality education for the students.
In curriculum, technology becomes the most important part because based on that teachers planned their teaching manuals. The teacher presented the subject ideas through computers and laptops which made their teaching more interesting and students actively participated in it.
Through medium of technology, the teacher is able to present any topic which they thought impossible because so many applications are developed in favor of education and there are so many videos which are related to education such videos made teaching easy and teacher act as an instructor in the classroom. Guiding them towards the topic by presenting the idea through technological devices.
Increased students participation
As technology is used in educational process the role of teacher decreased and the role of students increased. When teacher show certain videos related to the topic they actively participated in its discussion and they share their opinion on it made their learning easy going.
And also with the help of technology teacher can create blog and website of class particular class through that teacher can instruct the students in their learning process. Everyone is different having different characters same may actively participate in class activity face to face but some may participate in online discussion.
So through online or website teacher can have a conversation with the students they will participate in it without much stress and strain. So through that way, the teacher can understand the student’s characters and their problems in learning.
Distance education
In the past education was limited to boundaries and limited to certain cast and gender. But now education is spread through technology. Now the students who are willing to study they can admit them self in distance education or online learning process.
Distance education offers different types of course and they can select their interested course and learn whenever they are free. They can learn while earning or while doing a job so whenever they get free time they can concentrate on studies through online learning.
Now more than 70% of individual participate in distance education as its demand increased the new courses are developed for the students. All materials are uploaded online videos and lecture class also uploaded they can learn it whenever they need whether it is early in the morning or late at night.
Increased confidence
Technology really helped to increase the confidence of students as well as teachers. When the student gets class works home works seminar project they got stressed because they didn’t have any kind of source to refer the deadline to submit it made them tensed and they were not able to concentrate on studies but after the influence of technology it really helped them to search for the information.
It will give any kind of information’s related to any subject without wasting their time. At the same time, teachers also got new skills and techniques to present their teaching in front of the students.
It will be really boring to follow the same teaching method so technological devices offered then different method if one fails they can get another without wasting their time so technology really helped to boost the confidence of student as well as the teacher.
These are some merits of Technology over Education. When we are talking about merits and the positive impact we must think of negative impact too. So we should observe our children or students whether they are using technology for any other purpose apart from learning.
If they are using we must warn them and should share the negative impact of technology. They must be aware of such a negative side too. Technology really helps us to attain a quality education and to score good marks in academical performance.
The new generation is really skilled in technological techniques because they get basic learning in their school life so they become expert in that field. They are ready to face the challenges of future life and to live a successful life.