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Impacts of Technology in the Quality of Education

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Technology is a major contributor to the current improved standards and quality of education system in the United States. The introduction of technology to the learning institutions and more especially in classroom has greatly encouraged engagement and collaboration from the students which defines whether learning is taking place or not. The current generation having grown up with technology in their fingertips, its inclusion in the learning environment will have more of positive impacts than negative impacts to their academic performance and their future success in general. This paper serves to analyze the encouraging impacts of technology in the education system, its importance to both the learners and teachers and why it has to be embraced in classroom.

Impacts of Technology in the Quality of Education

Introduction

Is the incorporation of technology into the learning and teaching system improving the quality of education? From history, technology has been like a catalyst for the many changes that we are experiencing in the current world. For instance, when we think of the way the internet has unified the world into a single society, technology takes credit. In production and manufacturing industry, efficiency and productivity have been greatly improved through technology. With the many benefits of technology, it’s no doubt then that our learning institutions are making use of technology even in the classroom. However, the most commonly asked question is whether the technology in the classroom helps students to learn. Well, some individuals may argue that technology is distracting students from their full learning potential, I am certain that the use of technology in our learning institutions plays a vital role for the betterment of the students’ future. As David Warlick said, “We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it’s the pen and paper of our time, and it’s the lens through which we experience much of our world”. In this paper, I will discuss the importance of technology to the student, teacher and the education system as a whole (Al‐Zahrani, 2015).

According to the Social Constructivism Theory, learning is viewed as students’ integration into a knowledge community that involves collaborative assimilation besides accommodation of new information. Students’ engagement in the classroom serves as an indication that the learning process is taking place. For the students to be effectively engaged in class activities, group work is highly encouraged for the essence of collaboration to be appreciated in the learning environment. The facilitator has to choose on an effective method that he or she can use to engage the students well bearing in mind that the current students have never defined life without internet which is actually technology. Therefore in such an incidence, technology can be taken as the best method since it can enhance collaboration via blogging and social sharing sites. 90% of the students between the ages of 12 to 18 years use the internet in the United States of America, and due to the fact that the current generation has grown up with technology, they find it easy and confident to use computers to share ideas. In fact, a per the research of the NSBA, 60% of the students discuss about educational topics on the social sites online with 50% talking specifically on homework solving problems (Salomon, 2016).

The main aim of educating a child is to see him or her having a bright future which entails that he or she will apply the skills learned from school to secure a job to boost his or her living if not venturing into entrepreneurship. According to statistics, about 85% of the United States employers are hiring computer literate employees. And, in fact, not only computer literate but employees who can be able to integrate their computer technology skills towards solving the real world problems. Although innovation, leadership, and collaboration are very fundamental for any successful employee, the employers are dynamically changing to hiring employees who on top of these attributes; they possess a cognitive, public besides cultural dimensions of how to apply technology in different settings. Since technology has made the world a smaller society, employees must have the quality of constantly changing to catch up with the constant changes in technology. Therefore, it’s good to appreciate the fact that with the use of technology in the classroom, it’s not only assisting the students to excel academically but also to shape them to fit in the job market after school (Salomon,et .al 2016).

The world needs leaders who liberal minded in terms of thinking besides accepting changes and new ideas in society. Technology can positively impact on the individual’s insight and thoughts. For an individual to think liberally, he or she must learn different types of proficiencies that can’t necessarily be thought by a teacher. However, they can be learned through the use of technology. Computer literacy, as well as cultural literacy, is some of them and an expert in these areas, technology must play a major role. Because the information on these issues is in the internet, and with the change of web from 1.0 to 2.0 which is a read-only interface which leaves learners with many opportunities on how to schedule and spend their learning time, the young generation has no excuse of not being knowledgeable, and classroom is the best place to start learning this information from as there are experts to guide them on the excellent practices (Hainey et .al 2016).

The reading literacy and writing literacy are very crucial in any developing child. According to the cognitive theory of development, the development of a child vocabulary and speech is mostly from peers. While in school, the writing and reading of the learned vocabularies are given priority because they are the main building blocks of learning. Although many individuals say that with the use of technology in our learning institution, the competency of reading and writing is being affected, I will tend to differ with them. Technology can assist in a better understanding of reading and writing. For instance blogging, students preparing web pages for either assignments or personal use greatly contributes to enhancing the student’s reading and writing skills. In fact, according to the research of the PEW Internet and American Life project of 2007, 93% of the teens used the internet for social interaction, 64% of the teens used the internet for content creating activities. During social interaction and content creation, there is involvement in writing and reading skills (Sharma, Joshi, & Sharma, 2016).

According to Jean Piaget, if a teacher is teaching in a class of four students, then he or she must understand that there are four different ways of understanding from that class. This means that for the teacher to effectively deliver the knowledge to all the students, he or she must adjust the teaching curriculum that all students in the class will understand. In Patricia A. Cranton and Caroline Kreber article ‘Exploring the scholarship of Teaching’, an individual have three different reflections of learning which are, content reflection, process reflection and premise reflection. This also shows that there are many different ways to achieve the above three reflections for the purpose of helping students learn and develop. Therefore the teacher has to understand what will work better for every student in the classroom and given the fact that technology is part of the young generations’ life, it must be considered to be the best way to be used to deliver the knowledge that is necessary and relevant for the students to be acquainted with (Fathema, Shannon, & Ross, 2015).

On getting out of standardizing students, technology has provided students with what I can term as modified enlightening experience. By the introduction of technology in classroom, there has been enablement of many differences in the learning environment, where students who not only know how to answer multiple choice questions but also having relevant knowledge to enable them think critically in anything they do, whether in school or in society are produced. This has helped the learning institutions more especially in the United States to produces all round and responsible citizens. According to the National Technology Officer Cameron Evans, the important projected benefit that will result from incorporation of technology to learning is that, the graduating students will be producers as opposed to the non-technology era where only consumer of content students used to graduate. It’s through this reason that I believe, on the side of student enablement, technology has greatly assisted in nurturing them, both academically and professionally hence brightening their future life (Al‐Zahrani et .al 2015).

The teachers have not been left behind as far as technology use is a concern. Many schools in the United States have got internet connectivity. In fact, almost 99% of public schools in the United States of America are connected to the internet. This facilitates communication from one department to another through electronic mailing. Also, the exchange of knowledge from one teacher to another has been fastened with internet connectivity. The advanced level of research from the American scholars who happen to be academicians mostly is as a result of the improved and availability of the necessary technology to boost the research. The communication between teachers and students has been fastened in United States Schools because of the presence of technology. In fact, even issuing of assignments from the teachers to the students is through technology use and in return the students submit the assignments through the same technology (Domingo, &Garganté, 2016).

The use of technology has also helped the teachers to mark the student’s assignments and tests faster besides evaluating individual student’s performance as far as academics is a concern.Through the introduction of classroom technology, the teachers have been able to close the gap between the new literacy and old literacy via online book clubs. These clubs usually tend to be committing some suitable events to the students and they are usually seen by the parents as well as the teachers. Also, technology use through digital storytelling allows the students to become more through topic selection, research conduction besides writing a script which also promotes reading and writing skills. It is also important to note that technology has greatly helped in curbing cheating and malpractice cases in the learning institutions through the use of plagiarism software. This has contributed to the integrity and quality of the United States of America education system. No wonder the best educational institutions in the world ranking in terms of quality of education offered are from the United States.The institutional administrators also make use of technology to communicate easily to various departments besides helping them in decision making. For instance, the management decision-making tool is software that is technologically designed to aid the administrators in decision making (Carver, 2016).

In conclusion, technology has been evolving within our midst and it will continue evolving from generation to generation. It’s high time that we eradicate the norm of ignoring technology in our society but rather embrace the good changes that come with technology as it will always continue impacting positively to our language, thoughts, and behavior. While I appreciate the fact that technology won’t take the position of a teacher in the classroom, it’s better for the teachers to familiarize themselves with the teaching strategies that will reach besides engaging all their students in the classroom where technology stands out to be the only ways as far as the current generation is a concern.

Although at times it may tend to narrow down the thinking capacity of the students due to overreliance on technology to search everything instead of thinking, it will be of no consequence that once technology has been successfully embraced and effectively understood by the students, they will future exhilarate on the benefits of this technical knowledge, when they will find competent enough anywhere they may go in this world to almost all the available job markets. This is due to the fact that, from the discussions on this paper, classroom technology use has stood out to be of more advantages to the students in terms of educational quality (Lai, & Smith, 2018).

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