Monday, 4 June 2018

Digital literacy: The Future of our Education System


Education has a come a long way today. While classroom education is still hailed as the best way to impart knowledge, minor reforms within this sector has given rise to a lot of positive results. With the shift from word-of mouth teaching to black board demonstrations, there has been a significant rise in the overall understanding of concepts by the children. The next major shift was the introduction of digitized modes of teaching. Some of the major CBSE Schools of Hyderabad are utilizing it the right way. 

Role of digital classroom in redefining education

The major aim of education has always been an unequal imparting of knowledge to all the children alike. While this remains grounded, practices undertaken to make it more accessible and understandable to the children have become robust. The buzz word today is digital classroom. They have been known to create a reform in the educational sector. The major goal of classroom education has been to foster a friendly environment to all the students, so that they can learn and clear their doubts without an iota of fear.

They have altered the perspective of the students towards studying. In doing so, they have also helped teachers to prepare lessons in multi-media, that will ensure limitless fun whilst studying.

The classroom becomes the hub for international activities that will create more meaningful opportunities and endless learning, all through apps and other presentation that are more graphic in terms of teaching. For example, there is a lot of difference in drawing a sphere on the board and trying to explain how many sides are there as opposed to actually showing a 360-degree view of the sphere. Two things happen in situations like these. One, the child learns things more realistically and two, a sense of awe is created in the child and thus the child wants to see more and learn more. Graphic representation will ensure the concepts are retained in the memory for longer periods. 

Digital literacy will make the child responsible in terms of utilizing the technology to learn newer things. The digital world today, offers many competitive platforms where actual learning exercises take place through games and quizzes. The child not only gets interested, but also learns newer things in efficient ways. 

Digital learning tools are more far reaching to the students. It has the potential to even motivate the usually unmotivated kids. 

But we sure know that with all these bigger rewards, there comes a price. The role of teachers will get quite challenging and sometimes downright negligible. It can be overwhelming on one hand, but on the other hand, it fosters a space for them to personally grow and participate in newer ways of educating and instilling interest in the child. Digital classrooms have a lot benefits than what we can even start to describe. Various studies are now being conducted to see its cognitive effects on children. Some of them have shown how there is an overall significant improvement in cognitive control mechanisms such as attention, memory etc. Digital literacy is sure the future ahead!

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