Technology has a significant effect on all facets of lives. Education is no alien to it!
In its way, technology has brought about a tremendous change in the outlook towards the education system.
Over 500 years back when printing was invented, it brought a new face of the education system with the introduction of books imparting the knowledge, and a system that could stay with us for lives. Now, technology has brought something more to the classrooms. Today, computers, laptops, mobiles, and other devices have made such an impact on students of all ages, that giving them away is next to impossible for them. Students can locally access all the global data.Many educational games and simulations are intentionally introduced in the market. Distance learning and Web seminars are making resources reachable and cost efficient for the students and has removed space and time limitations. Information is made easily accessible.
Leave apart students, teachers are to be specially trained, to work on technology, and impart their knowledge through presentations, online classes, recorded classroom lectures, and whatnot. So, have they made the lives of people any better? Yes and No!
Yes, with the technology evolving constantly every day, new opportunities, and equally new challenges usher in with it. Social networking and digital marketing have impacted the education system soaring high. Online classes and recorded lectures, both paid and free, dance all around the network. This has spread wide bandwidth of knowledge for the present and future generations. This system is here to stay long! Nowadays, schools and colleges have gone all on the internet. Facebook and Instagram have become an integral unit of education transmission.
To take it positively ahead, or drive it the other way, remains in our court. Mobile in every student’s hand and the continuous updates and calls are but a distraction to the classroom teaching. Well, no wonder, professors are getting used to this facet of life, too. With so much on the internet, sometimes the crucial data is harshly handled. Fiddling with important data, hacking, and other misuses have cropped up. College students can be notoriously connected to some bad content on the internet, making the things worsen. So, the interference of parents into young child’s activities have been made a mandate. Parents on the other hand are themselves experiencing the impact of technology.
What we need to understand is that the education system still needs the good old day classroom pattern of a teacher, students, desks, and study materials with or without the addition of technology. If used with good intention, technology can be transformed from mere distraction to an effective teaching tool.