Permitting Student Ownership of Their Education: When students are involved in their education, they can be more engaged with the content, its delivery, and understanding. Through gamification, students make their own avatars and can earn and lose points based on behavior, engagement, collaboration, and productivity. The interaction not only makes it more fun but also encourages students to uphold classroom values.
Communicating With Families: Modern parents often want to know how their child is evolving and improving as a human being, and teachers are a critical gateway to acquiring that information. Instead of waiting for scheduled parent-teacher meetings, teachers now have the ability to inform and interact with parents in real-time via e-mail and newsletters. Parents can also access things such as spelling lists, assignments, grades, and school and class calendars to reinforce what their child is learning in class.
Technology has helped in the growth of mobile learning and long distance learning. The use of internet technology has enabled teachers to reach students across boarders and also students from developing countries have used internet technology to subscribe for advanced educational courses. Many universities and colleges have embraced online education by creating virtual classrooms. Online education is flexible and affordable, students can attend classrooms during their free time, and they can also have a chance to interact with other students virtually.
Recent advancements in educational technologies have yielded positive results in our education sector. This new educational technology is supporting both teaching and learning processes, technology has digitized classrooms through digital learning tools like, computers, iPads, smartphones, smart digital white boards; it has expanded course offerings, it has increased student’s engagement and motivation towards learning.
There are countless reasons why technology is a key aspect of learning in the schools. Whether we like it or not, technology is everywhere; and in order for our students to survive in post-secondary education and the business world, they must know technology.
To narrow it down, we came up with 10 reasons for the importance of technology in education:
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