Last updated on Sunday, October 15th, 2023
Technology in education has revolutionized the way in the present time as it is delivered in the schools. With the advent of computers, the internet, and other digital devices, teaching and learning have become more interactive, engaging, and accessible.
One of the significant benefits of technology in education is that it allows for personalized learning. Students can access a vast array of educational resources, including online courses, multimedia presentations, and interactive simulations, at their own pace and on their own schedule.
Technology also helps teachers in planning and delivering their lessons. They can use various tools such as online quizzes, educational games, and digital whiteboards to make their classes more interactive and engaging for students.
Education and Information Technologies
Advancement of technology and its use in education is good in today’s classroom culture to help the students for visualization the subject-related facts. Because school education is limited in the boundary of academic institutions. Education means good CGPA, good communication, and good corporate jobs. Academic institutes designs the curriculum as per the demand of Industrial jobs. Industry absorbs the people who have the same skills/interests/expertise or related field experience or information.
Type of the industry and its services to mankind are two different aspects for job seekers, which either one of them remains important to join the same. To get better service in terms of time and production, technology taking a different shape in different service sectors, education is also one of them.
Uses of Internet for Students: Present Classroom
Teaching with GURUKUL culture is not in tradition, where the teacher was responsible for the social and professional life of the students. It has been changed completely nowadays. Many factors are responsible for it. But still, in many schools the character of a student is certified by the teacher. Does it means, only teachers can understand students better than his/her parents?
Also, it indicates the social responsibility of a teacher for the development of a good society. In GURUKULs which is an old tradition of education in India, interest of the student’s was more important. Then after teachers were assigned to students for skill-based education. For example to train the student in carpentry work, goldsmith work, barber, farming work, weaving work or to trained for the protection of society or for the academic, accounts work.
Now YouTube and many other platforms are helping students to develop their interests. He is developing skills from YouTube videos, not from the classroom.
Use of Technology in Schools Education: Its impact
Earlier evaluation of the students was based on practical performance so probably there was no discrimination among the people on the basis of their work and obviously importance is given to the work and the performance of a person. How learning can be justified without practical work?
What could surprise more than this that up to the secondary education practical work is on readymade files only, there is no interest in science experiments and practical’s of the students, this is also true that project-based marks and evaluation are in the curriculum but there are many projects selling shops also in our surroundings to help the students.
There are many students who can not tell the approximate distance between two objects, if that gap is around 4 meters at least. No measurement by hand any time, never touch the experiments’ apparatus?
Why Students’ Buy Technical Project?
Students buy technical projects and shows in their respective labs for evaluation. Sometimes they are good to explain the cramming concept and sometimes not. More than this, a large number of such students follow the traditional path of performing the experiments in the labs. When they are selected in the good institute for higher studies (Graduate course IITs). And now story starts to like and dislike the subject(s) or they just start to lose their interest in academics.
Educational Media on Internet and Students in the Classroom
The new generation fond of technology, they caught by it very fast and faces its merits and demerits, accordingly. They spent maximum time with technology, to learn about the related inventions either just for fun or knowledge. The academic institutes try to incorporate so-called relevant academic technology in their respective environments by making use of a personal computer, laptop, tablet, Wi-Fi, and projectors. While classroom teaching remains based on old traditional patterns, usually leave the blackboard and white chalks.
Now boards are either green or white but the rest of the things are the same. Teachers use the old traditional method to teach in class. They use a board or projector for PPTs but this generation wants to play with technology. Why they see your lecture and focus on it, his mind is innovative that is fast. So he wants to play with technology and you are giving him almost the same dose as people were giving 100 yrs before.
Lack of Awareness and use of Technology in Education
Today students are not supposed to sit in the classroom for one or two hours and listen to some philosophical lectures which are not related to their interest. They are interested to play with technology, like simulation-based exercise where they just feed the value, see the result and visualize the related facts.
Not this story stops here, we actually provide to them advance technology (mobile and Internet) through their childhood and now asking them to learn things with 100yrs old pattern, as I said earlier. Now examination is not annually, not in six months, now we are evaluating their learning by assignments every week. By examination every month from the total syllabus. I am surprise here also, what we are evaluating? Their cramming power? Or their learning ability? Or just try to check the speed of evaluation process on human beings?
In this fast-growing technology era still, the education industry has an inefficient technical classroom environment and not having properly technically equipped teachers and curriculum. Some so-called academic leaders are just experimenting on the present generation by forcing the use of ICT that means only PPT-Projector, digital pad- online lectures and Wi-Fi. This is because of one reason the new generation is not using technology in a proper and fruitful way. There is a big gap between the use of technology in education and the classroom teaching by the so-called traditional teacher. The man who didn’t asked/trained to transform their syllabus in digital form (simulation-based exercises)? Reason is unskilled technical manager.
Need for Technology Trained Teachers in Schools
A uniform education system and easily available technology can help to fulfil the gap for quality learning; otherwise, technically sound students will lose their interest, innovational thinking for the society. They will get depressed with traditional teaching system, while those not technically sound will follow unknowingly traditional teaching, and will be a good employee of an Industry in future. Partial fusion of technology with education is not a good indication for society. Here at present inefficient technology and traditional teaching are suffering together.
Disclaimer: These are my personal points about the present a scenario of the education system, if any point is not suitable for you that can be my fault because of my limited knowledge and understanding, please ignore and let me know by your comments.
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