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Posted: November 27, 2017 |
Integrating IT into education is a complex process. For example, the electronic tablet, whose popularity continues to grow, has frequently been introduced into the classroom. In addition to being attractive, the tablet significantly lightens the student's binder as it can hold all of a student's textbooks and other tools in digital form. On the other hand, you may wonder, “What are the educational applications I should utilize for an electronic tablet?” One useful educational application, for example, is Course Hero. It is also true that this type of IT use is the most advanced and complex stage in the process of integrating IT into education. In addition to changing the way we teach and learn, IT is currently transforming the tools teachers use in the classroom. Active, collective and practical learning must, therefore, be developed at school. But, quite often, instead of this activity being done in a computer lab under the supervision and guidance of the teacher responsible for the subject, students instead use the local cybercafe. During these long years, all this technological progress coexisted with the good old class blackboard. Investments in technology news are therefore made only for the purpose of putting innovative tools in the hands of teachers and students and that is enough to fundamentally transform the learning experience. The role of the tool, for example, becomes the most important, the innovations in this field are also born of a high level of control of the tools which is made possible only by a diligent practice. When a training plan is put in place for teachers, it is generally focused on technologies rather than on the uses and pedagogy. For the moment, most of these courses also give teachers who have completed the full course and correctly answered online assessments, certificates of achievement. However, these are not recognized academically and cannot be used as complements for obtaining a diploma (in the form of credits like other courses). These pieces of training also focus on how to operate a device or application, rather than how to use it to enhance learning. Not to mention more trivial problems such as the identity of those who are supposed to participate in the exam. The use of digital technology in the classroom can also quickly become a headache when we know that some technological tools and equipment are rather unreliable and subject to malfunctions. Therefore, we should also support computer-assisted teaching and enable the development of experiments by simulation devices. Publishing houses have made enormous efforts to present digital versions of their new educational books. On the other hand, entire cohorts of students go through primary, middle and high school and arrive at the university having attended a computer lab for no more than one school year, for a few hours a week. Admittedly, the technological offers have greatly evolved, have been renewed and have been integrated, via the net and communication networks, as an important media component. The control of knowledge remains, however, the weak point of these new offers of education. Before investing in digital tools and applications, education systems or institutions should therefore first ensure that they have sufficient infrastructure to support the activities that the teachers will implement. International educational networks must also be strongly encouraged to give our students the opportunity to open up to the world and to communicate with young people from different cultures. Therefore, technology needs to be integrated into the classroom. Technology should also provide an understanding of how it can improve the learning experience of students and teachers and transform teaching practices. Often the minimum level of investment in infrastructure, to make digital tools work properly, is undervalued and many institutions are left with a lack of hardware and poor connectivity.
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