How Do Technologies Shape Education

Our Life Will Never Be The Same

Technology has been progressing exponentially, from showing decent inventions every decade in the Middle Ages to discoveries on a day-to-day basis nowadays. Our institutional knowledge helps us to act aggressively towards progress. It is important to admit that technology is changing our lives every single moment, bit by bit, even faster than it was before. Everything is changed before you can say ‘knife’!

What Did Technology Bring To Education?

If we want to understand how technology helps education, let’s look at the following statements.

No one is going to argue that the digital era made education much more available. It is not so crucial to be at an educational point like college or university to gain knowledge nowadays. A wide range of ways to study remotely and e-learning courses are very common now. Places and societies where access to the internet is provided can find more tools to learn better.

More and more countries include the internet to human basic needs. Indeed, our lives without it would lose that speed that we take for granted. Instant access to library collections, digitized data centers and databases, general information makes finding information faster manyfold.

Both technology and education have created a mix we may consume every day. What we need to do is to turn on our devices and get connected to the Internet. There is no need to go outside to find things you require. We have reduced to waste our time performing transitional actions.

The process of studying became easier nowadays. There is no need to handwrite, make notes, do a lot of other things manually as they are done automatically. It seems that studying became more effortless as we don’t exert such efforts to gain knowledge as it was before.

The New Role Of An Educator

Availability, speed and easiness have changed the role of an educator. It is obvious that professors used to be sources of information whereas they help students to find and assess the information they get. There is no lack of information anymore, the is a problem with its systematization and practical use. Thus, the role of educators became more philosophical and still very important.

Technology has made education more personalized. Technology in education plays the so-called adaptive role. Numerous digital educational tools, AI, educational software are being adjusted for student needs in order to find the best ways of studying personally for them.

Accumulating knowledge is not a problem anymore. There are many applications and services that can provide students with it. Isn’t DreamBox helpful? Is speedypaper.com a good service, for instance? What about programs and services like No Red Ink, Achieve 3000, Zearn, Grammarly, Google Docs, Newslea, and many others?

However, it’s still important to teach students use all these things wisely and advantageously. They have more independent behavior in classes, and students still need educators to make their behavior respectful and responsible.

New Prospects

Tablets and the Internet became ingrained in our educational life. There is nothing new in them. When artificial intelligence reaches the level of human development, which is going to happen quite soon, there will be person-to-device constant cooperation and self-education. Thus, students will get instant educational advisors and learning will become even faster and simpler. It might lead to educational on-spot decisions when you undertake measures and make decisions relying on data collected and assessed personally to you by AI.

It is believed that the further integration of human beings and artificial intelligence into one common neural network will lead to a progressive leap in educational as well as civilizational aspects which may reveal new unexplored horizons to all of us.