Technology

Through the times, educational processes have been constantly evolving to fulfill one only main objective, students’ best development in society. In fact, classrooms are constantly being remodeled not only in their infrastructure but also, and more importantly, in the management that those dedicated teachers provide within it. Therefore, many strategies have just shown up to accomplish that target. Technology has played an indispensable role in such transitional processes that education has had for the better. Moreover, technology is becoming today´s main tool within classrooms and it has allowed education to be expanded everywhere. So, how important is the technology for education now? The answer must be considered to cement first what technology really is, its implications, importance degree, characteristics, benefits, challenges in today´s world, and its relationship between educational agents to change the educational model by enriching classrooms with it to perform at their best.

The new globalized and digital transformation

There are many overviews back in time that explains the digital transformation that the world has had due to technological inventions. In fact, if a throwback in time to some decades ago performs, it will be highly noticeable that our globe has completely been transformed. How people should have been able to talk with people from the other side of the world instantly? Would communication have been possible during the pandemic time if it had occurred at those decades back in time? Did everyone from toddlers to the elderly owned a technological device at that time? Was it possible to stand educational processes outside the classroom? The answers for such questions may result impossible to be given some decades ago. Therefore, it makes us realize how our globe has changed, and even better how technology has become an indispensable tool to be found and used everywhere for making people's lives easier, meaningful, and possible. Moreover, today’s digital transformation allows people to have the entire world at their hands. What seemed to be impossible back in time is possible now due to the digital transformation that we are facing now, which is becoming fundamental for us to live. So that it involves such responsibility from people to use it and get the best of the best from it to sustain a more peaceful digitalized world for everyone.

What can education get from technological resources?

Since technology is transforming our world, education overall can get many benefits from it. Technology is an endless tool for us to take advantage of it and for many, it is the response to all educational problems that hadn’t been able to be solved until technology arise. Thus, the lack of access to resources to teach can be gone since technology provides lots of free resources to apply within and outside the classroom. Also, it makes everyone have a digital device to be part of the educational system, especially for those who have not had access to education because of distance, violence issues, disabilities, and many other impediments. Technology now can get everyone to take a class in so many different modalities that fit everyone's needs. Furthermore, teachers can also get along with technology not to be replaced by to manage it within the classroom to get students engagement, satisfaction, and the fulfillment of their learning goals successfully. All in all, many benefits can be gotten from technology by applying it to education. So dear reader, we encourage you and everyone to establish safe relationships among technology and educational agents to cement educational processes and end up with its deficiencies so far.

How important is technology in education then?

Technology is undoubtedly important in educational processes for many reasons. First, it allows people from all around the world to get together and start interacting with each other to learn. Secondly, it innovates new classroom models and managements to be developed in which whiteboards, markers, and pencils have been left aside to incorporate new varied effective tools to get the best from educational agents. Also, it makes the path easier since there are a great number of resources available to reinforce, redirect, and reflect the learning process. For those reasons, technology is education’s best fiend which together can bring about real changes that are needed to have the world everyone deserves to live.

How to enrich classrooms through technology

There are many strategies that can be implemented to enrich classrooms through the benefits that technology brings for education. Gamified learning can be implemented by teachers not only for having students entertained by playing but more importantly to make them retain information indirectly in a funnier and more enjoyable way, which is going to keep students willing to do more and so, to achieve educational goals easily. Also, social media can be integrated into the classroom to set a safe environment to learn in which everyone may be able to be part of something and to interact with people around the world, which is a great booster for ESL classes. Furthermore, technology can make a classroom enriched by gathering all the appropriate tools to provide students with feedback regarding their assignments. This will make error correction processes more effective for students, and consequently, they will be able to do better overall. Moreover, teachers can do so by taking advantage of technology to create digital content to be presented in each class in order to catch students’ attention, make them feel comfortable, apply interactivity, and media literacy to become student’s integral individuals that will be able to resolve nowadays society’s main issues properly. Therefore, those strategies to be applied can make classroom enrichment possible for getting students goals to be achieved proficiency.

New model of education for today's demands

     Today’s globalized world demands new ways to learn. Traditional schools are just becoming part of our history, and technology makes the bridge clear to set the new educational model for today’s demands. For example, and more recently, the COVID-19 situation made everything stop, including education processes. However, new technological models of education were the only available way to continue with education in a safer way. Moreover, it not only allowed educational agents to continue developing their classes but also provided the chance to discover new tools that are incredibly working nowadays in education to be new, innovative, and the answer for today’s needs. Another example is the easy access that technology has given everyone to get instructed with lots of information sources from everywhere. So, everyone can have an entire world of information sources in one tiny device. Finally, technology has been key to bringing about this new model of education, which is so effective for nowadays educational demands and all these examples are just certain proof of that worthy transformation.

Whereas new educational models occur, new challenges to deal with show up

Despite all, there’s not everything as perfect as we all would like it to be. So that there is a great number of challenges that we are still having to deal with, now that incorporating technology in educational processes has become an efficient trendy everywhere. Students are constantly fighting against distractors that may show up while they are in class. This can prevent them from concentrating on their lessons, which will result at the end in troubles because of the lack of awareness of their learning process. On top of this, teachers are also having trouble adapting themselves to the new availability times since there is no distinction between resting time and working time. That’s something every teacher around the world must deal with nowadays, and not controlling it may result in stress, tiredness, and consequently unhealthy habits. Another big challenge is the lack of media literacy as well. Both students and teachers are making a double effort to master the variety of technological tools to use. This can become a more time-consuming practice since apart from normal classes there is also required to give some time to extra workshops to get familiar with the technology. All these challenges are making the path hard to get used to technology. However, a bit more effort from teachers, students, parents, and the whole society will make it worthwhile in the end because of the extraordinary results the use of technology may undoubtedly give.

Everyone has the responsibility to use technology for good and cement the bliss society that we all deserve to live in. Now that we have revised all the benefits that we can get…

What are you waiting to incorporate technology in your daily life?

We dare you to try it, you’ll see it worth it!