Written by: Hector H. Cabotaje
We are now in a world where technology is one of the basic needs for every day’s life. Technology can be used for trivial things, such as playing mobile games, sharing worthless post on Facebook, and watching un-educational videos on YouTube that are extremely time consuming. But where exactly should it be used? And how to use it properly without wasting time? You must be guesting. But I’ll tell you.
Technology has massive contribution to education, it can be used to make education easier, requiring just enough discipline and responsible for its use. It will help teachers and especially the students to make education easier. Technology is important in education especially to the students. According to Tyler Wantulok, ‘’having access to other information outside of the book gives students many different ways to learn a concept. Teachers can come up with creative ways to teach their students that keeps them engaged. Technology has changed the learning environment so that learning is more hands-on. Schools throughout the nation are diverse in income, and often kids don’t always get the resources they need. The implementation of technology in schools helps close that gap’’. It simply shows how the students learn and how the teachers teach have become easier. Before we go any further, below are the lists that will help education easier:
- Digital Applications that helps students and teachers to communicate easier;
- There are many apps that can be used to make education easier. We have Edmodo and Google classroom, this is used to enable teachers to pass their instruction to their students faster. Students can also pass their activities, quizzes, and assignments through it. But it requires your own mobile phone and internet for you to be updated on what the teacher posts here.
2. Search engines. (Yahoo, Google, Amazon etc…)
- You can use it to make education easier by simply typing the information you want to get, it will immediately appear after you press the ‘’go’’ button. Using it makes it easier to find information. It will not be as difficult to find information as you would in a book.
3. Software’s. (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher etc…)
- Using these will make easier to present topics, create outlines, and computing grades. To the teachers, there’s no need to write on the board because your topic can be presented using PowerPoint presentation. Computing student’s grades would be easier using excel. To the students, we can used Microsoft word to make essays and other written activities. It can also be used by the teachers, they can write their topics and print it so they can distribute it to the students.
4. Computers/Laptops/Mobile Phones/Internet
- I think this is the most important, because it is necessary for you to apply everything I have mentioned. But we have to be responsible of using these things. Because using these things has no limit that can leads to cyber crime. However, using these thing can really help to make education easier.
As a future Educator; I will make use of these things to make education easier, it is very helpful to the learners and teachers. We are in the modern world, so we need the modern things in order to teach efficiently. John Dewey said, ‘’If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow’’. In the new literacy, we have to teach using digital technologies in order to keep our learners engage to our lessons.
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