technology and education

Essay by aoralice October 2014

download word file, 1 pages 0.0

Downloaded 2 times

Information System Nuttinee Nakwattana Section2

How technology can improve education?

Technology becomes part of our lives as we people have been using technology in all activities. It changes the way in which we communicate with each other. For education, technology also plays an important role as it helps increasing the efficiency of teaching and learning. First of all, by having technology it allows teacher to go beyond just a text-based learning, its role in schools has evolved from a contained "computer class" into a versatile learning tool that could change how we demonstrate concepts, assign projects and assess progress. Also, technology made the way of teaching in class easier as nowadays teacher can use projector to present the learning material. They don't have to waste time write on the board. Moreover, with technology students now can learn many things online in which it is cheaper and save times. And they can use e-book to study instead of wasting their money to buy a text book.

Apart from that, technology made teachers and students a lot easier to communicate with each other. For example, teachers can send homework via e-mail to students and students also can ask question back through e-mail, and teachers can have their own website that students can get access to see the updated information about the class and also download the learning materials. In addition, we still use libraries in school or university, but so much of our research and learning is now more web-based. What used to take hours in the library to find, we find instantaneously with web-based. Furthermore, technology also change the old process of registering the subjects from a paper-based to an online system that save a lot of time for both officers and students and it is easy to...