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| Edited By: Amit Yadav,Rishi Kapal |Source: DNA |Updated: May 25, 2017, 08:25 AM IST
Technology is enabling the creation of personalised learning environments that will eventually replace the traditional classrooms. Today’s students have unprecedented technological literacy. They are eager to cuddle the use of various ed-tech platforms in the classroom. Teachers are able to understand students better than before. They can provide them more customised instruction. Schools should embrace educational technological means because it makes teaching easier, and encourages students to be more engaged with lessons.
Every student is unique in terms of his/her strength, learning style, and their day to day environment. Smart assessments continuously evaluate student performance and cater teaching strategies and material as per their needs. Students have access to interactive videos, updated textbooks, on-demand classrooms, customised learning modules, access to top-quality lessons and content from some of the best universities in the world, and all of this – available and accessible via today’s smartphones. Many start-ups offer tuition to school-goers. They help them in cracking entrance exams.
Students become smart learners and can track their mistakes thus ensuring mistakes are avoided. According to a recent digital survey conducted by Mc Graw Hill, 75% students found technology helpful in preparing for class, and nearly 80% feels adaptive technology has helped in improving their grades.
Modern teachers are now familiar with technology and classrooms are also becoming paperless and technologically equipped. Schools districts and school boards need to prioritise funding for ed-tech and computer devices for every student. It is important to epitomise technology.
Students get the liberty to study and understand concepts at their own pace giving them adequate time to learn. Knowledge sharing and collaboration using technology platform has further helped students to get their questions and doubts answered quickly. There are timer and monitoring apps, organisational sources and editing services.
Technology identifies and reaches more learners than any other kind of tool available in the classroom, and allows for a dynamic learning experience that directly benefits students. It can increase many kind of intelligence in students like verbal-linguistic intelligence, verbal-logical intelligence, musical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence etc.
Students can access the learning material virtually anytime. They can do this anywhere in their preferred format of audio/video/games etc. This has significantly increased effectiveness of teaching strategies and learning materials. Instructors can now use visual models that are built in a game-like setting to communicate information, while also constructing teamwork skills and analytical thinking.
Digital space savers will not only help focus, they will also support you sharing and explaining any learning material. Designers should keep this in mind when constructing training materials. Sending and saving files digitally will boost the overall efficiency of the learning process. Poor visualisation leads to poor performance during examinations, job interviews, or applying the technical know-how in industry.
(Amit Yadav is founder of Kidstriangle, and Rishi Kapal is the CEO and Global Strategist of Edugild)
