The fundamental basis of incremental advancement is enlightenment. It enfranchises, inspires and catalysis new business, thereby proactively contributing to economic development. Nevertheless, the old way of thinking about education is getting more and more contested as the world changes at an exponential rate. Technology has taken a new and positive dimension, which has made the process of learning and teaching more exciting by providing new change models.
Table of Contents
The Digital Disruption
New forms of media, new devices, and the advent of Internet have completely changed the format and means of intake of information. Today’s students cannot be categorized as traditional learners, most of them were born in the world where technology plays an important role. They are familiar with operating on the internet, with search engines, and they can produce digital media.
As a result of these changes, learning institutions are now adopting the use of technology in teaching the students. Flat panel projectors, computerized touch boards, tablets and laptops are increasingly being adopted in schools now as student get full access to an array of educational materials. Modern technologies like managed learning environment, online courses or virtual classes are also prevalent these days because of several advantages they provide to student of different age groups.
Personalized Learning
Another advantage of the wide application of technology in education is the idea of achieving mass individualization. Through process of collecting analyzing and utilizing data, these student learning trending can be availed by the educators to apply customized learning technique that appeal to the given student. It may assist in halting the progression of the achievement gap, encouraging the students, and increasing the effectiveness of the learning process.
First, it is important to clarify what is meant by the term ‘personalization’ since learning may be individualized in many ways. Some of these are as follows: adaptive learning platforms which can dynamically change the difficulty level of the problems assigned to a learner, and intelligent tutoring systems which can offer feedback to a learner. In addition to increasing student motivation, engagement, participation, and satisfaction, gamification techniques can be adopted in teaching and learning by employing of game design elements and concepts in non-game context to enhance the abilities of students.
Developing Digital Skills
Due to the development of new technologies, the requirements for digital competencies keep on increasing. Currently, the trend in the job market is that employers are demanding employers with skills in a variety of computerized skills among them coding, data analysis, and digital marketing among others. Students are supposed to acquire knowledge in institutions and some of this knowledge should be equipped to enable them to face the challenges of the twenty first century new world order which is a digital world.
This can be done through, coding clubs, online courses, also collaborations with major players in the sector. Another area is also inclusion into the curriculum in all learning areas by teaching students digital literacy skills that enables them to develop critical thinking, problem solving and communications skills.
Addressing Equity and Access
Despite the fact that these technologies hold a lot of promise when it comes to education, there is a big issue of the digital divide. Students are not equal in their ability to gain these resources, and more often than not, differences in access only serve to widen the gaps between students.
To attain the goal of putting the quality of enhanced learning for all students into consideration institutions of learning must embrace equity. Some of the instructions covered in this regard are;
a. Ensuring the availability of cheap and viable gadgets and internet connection for students
b. Training teachers for effective execution of the gadget and information and communication technology in the classroom.
Conclusion
Mobile devices are creating explosive new changes in education scenarios. There is no denial in the fact that innovation has the potential to help educators offer more interesting, targeted, and effective instruction to students with the help of the support of technological tools. Therefore, it is crucial to proceed to the further development of approaches and ideas with the utilization of technology in education for everyone.
