Role of Technology for enhancing learning and establishing quality education in challenging circumstances
1. Technology plays great role in enhancing
learning and establishing quality education in challenging circumstances.
Explain this statement (500 words)
Introduction:
Technology
has become an important instrument in education. Computer-based technologies
hold great promise both for increasing access to knowledge and as a means of
promoting learning. The public imagination has been captured by the capacity of
information technologies to centralize and organize large bodies of knowledge;
people are excited by the prospect of information networks, such as the
Internet, linking students around the globe into communities of learners.
How does technology play great role in enhancing learning and
establishing quality education in Challenging circumstances?
What
has not yet been fully understood is that computer-based technologies can be
powerful pedagogical tools—not just rich sources of information, but also
extensions of human capabilities and contexts for social interactions
supporting learning. The process of using technology to improve learning is
never solely a technical matter, concerned only with properties of educational
hardware and software. Like a textbook or any other cultural object, technology
resources for education—whether a software science simulation or an interactive
reading exercise—function in a social environment, mediated by learning
conversations with peers and teachers.
Just
as important as questions about learning and the developmental appropriateness
of the products for children are issues that affect those who will use them as
tools to promote learning; namely, teachers. In thinking about technology, the
framework of creating learning environments that are learner, knowledge,
assessment, and community centered is also useful. There are many ways that
technology can be used to help create such environments, both for teachers and
for the students whom they teach. Many issues arise in considering how to
educate teachers to use new technologies effectively. What do they need to know
about learning processes? About the technology? What kinds of training are most
effective for helping teachers use high-quality instructional programs? What is
the best way to use technology to facilitate teacher learning?
Good
educational software and teacher-support tools, developed with a full
understanding of principles of learning, have not yet become the norm. Software
developers are generally driven more by the game and play market than by the
learning potential of their products. The software publishing industry,
learning experts, and education policy planners, in partnership, need to take
on the challenge of exploiting the promise of computer-based technologies for
improving learning. Much remains to be learned about using technology’s potential:
to make this happen, learning research will need to become the constant
companion of software development.
Conclusion:
Technology
is a very important supportive source of information so it has a great role in
enhancing learning and establishing challenging circumstances. The following
points can summarize its importance as:
1.
It brings exciting
curricula based on real world problems into the classroom.
2.
It provides scaffolds
and tools to enhance learning.
3.
It gives students and
teachers more opportunities or feedback, reflection and revision.
4.
It builds local and
global communities that include teachers, administrators, students and other
interested people.
5.
It expands opportunities for teacher learning.
6.
It helps to connect the
classroom to the community.
7.
It provides teachers
training and makes class lively
The above mentioned statements prove that
technology is an inseparable part of enhancing learning.
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