The Important Roles of Technology in Education

What is Educational Technology?

Educational Technology is a way for teachers to deliver content to students, different direct and face to face. In doing so, teachers will use mechanism of informational technology to deliver educational materials.

Benefits of Educational Technology 

• Improves overall skills in Math, Reading, and Writing
• Breaks the mundane learning cycle, learning becomes more interesting
• Prepares students for the future

Impact of technology in education

• Develops a positive attitude towards learning
• Increases skills of students
• Increases work skills for the workforce

A few ways to use technology in the classrooms

• Create a web page to display student assignments, writings, and art work
• Videoconferencing with classrooms around the world
• Spreadsheets to keep classroom data organized
• Spreadsheets to make math more interesting
• Publish a class newspaper

With the use of technology in education, instructors can post their course material which students can study at a time and location they prefer and can obtain the study material very quickly. Technology allows students to access course material at home and engage with the numerous online resources available to them. Students can use their home computers and internet to conduct research, participate in social media, email, play educational games and stream videos. Students are more motivated to learn when they are interested in the subject matter, which can be enhanced by using technologies in the classroom and targeting the need for screens and digital material. 

Another importance of technology is that it defies boundaries and limitations meaning learning material can be used for long distance learning and are accessible to a wider audience.  It also improves the critiquing and editing of written works using word processors and exchanging ideas with others via the Internet. 

Technology is an aid to the teachers and does not replace them. It aims to improve learning of the students and also ease the workload of the teachers. As long as technology is not abused, it will really help a lot in the field of education. I believe that technology is a must and should be implemented in teaching institutions.