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2016-05-29

Learn About Technology Integration In The Classroom

By Carl Lewis


Education and technology are intermarried situations. Education is all about getting reasonable, right and clear information hence requires a lot of research and truth. This integration entails use of the technology itself to better things in this context, to better the education system. With technology integration in the classroom, it is easy to get clear details on various subjects taught.

Gone are the days when learners would only rely on their teachers for information, teachers have become of less needed, it has become easy for students to do assignments and submit them. There are various technology tools that can be used by students or teachers to aid in learning. Technology integration actually entails use of these tools.

A normal class session should entail practicals, technology has made it possible for teachers to put up videos of this practicals online for students to refer; hence, they can always be up to date with the practicals even when they forget. Though YouTube has become a negative site, it is also a very useful site in information giving, it is a site used by students to share educative videos.

Visual understanding is a very important aspect of learning since it will help the student get a clear understanding of what the writings say. Photographs give a very good visual aspect. It has aided this since one can pin photographs to a piece of writing. Most teachers use this to their advantage and pin photos to their students notes or their teaching notes when using projectors in class.

As part of the teaching process it is very important for every teacher to give their students projects to do. This helps them get further enlightened. This has helped create a new level of intelligence gathering and with such projects, students get to design and develop electric gadgets, games, among other stuff. This is practical in some countries such as Japan; students create phones, visual online games and many more things which bring their creativity into a whole different exciting level.

Education is very essential since it helps come up with solutions to so many problems, it is therefore necessary to have essential evidence to every new discovery. This has helped a lot due to the many applications and websites available. These applications bring about communication between students therefore exchange of ideas that help improve education in a much higher level even outside normal classes.

There has been development of many gadgets such as the smartphones which with the help of internet connections helps students search the internet. The internet is a very helpful network in education since it provides help and information to students. Any educational institution should have an internet connection for their students, but this has been delayed by many since they claim this will only destroy the students but in real sense it is a cure for ignorance.

Many people may not like blogs since they always convey negative information but other people are using blogs for their advantage. Teachers write blogs related to certain topics in the education curriculum, these blogs are available for students to read, likewise students write blogs to which are read by other students hence sharing of ideas and building up of healthy online discussions. Bloggers are very useful in creating discussions helpful to students.




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