Role of Technology in enhancing Educational Outcomes

We all are facing the brunt of ongoing challenges due to unforeseen circumstances. The whole world is stuck due to these challenges. 

The technology has emerged like a saviour during this undesirable situation where the whole world is more or less wedged at their homes. Great thanks to the modern day technological advancement that enabled us to connect with each other. 

Over the years, educators and policymakers have been looking for some useful strategies to bridge the gap between actual learning and the assessment of one’s knowledge on the basis of his or her achievements. The effective utilisation of modern technology for sure has brought the largely sought after solutions to the same, especially for the gifted students who need individual attention. Technology based learning has become an essential part of today’s schooling. In the present context, all the global governments, education systems, researchers, school leaders, teachers and parents have realised that technology is going to be a prime element in a child’s education. As a matter of fact, the young learners need to be highly skilled in making efficient use of information and communication technologies (ICT). 

With the encouraging advent of technology in our everyday life, the need of the hour is to re-evaluate the notion of integrating technology with the school curriculum on the pragmatic scale. Moreover, we really need to embed technology into pedagogy to support the modern age learning process. In this way, technology is going to be a fundamental fraction of the learning process and an imperative tool for the educators and policymakers.

The important role that technology is playing now in education, will give educators a key opportunity to design and bring about the constructive and practical changes into learning experiences as a whole. The practical based subjects like Science, Social-science, and Mathematics are now more attention-grabbing as far as a learner’s point of view is concerned. The conceptual learning of these subjects has become much easier and motivating for the learners with the help of Multimedia, Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

However, a lot more still needs to be done as the development of many new applications and ideas is under process in Indian education system. 

Nevertheless, one thing is sure that the future of education system cannot be imagined without an effective amalgamation of technology along with a human touch in the form of support given by the proficient contributions of the educators. 

Finally, in my opinion, the effective assimilation of aforesaid key elements of technology into pedagogical practices is going to bring forth the desired outcomes and will boost the process of Nation building.

Brijesh Kumar Loshali

Dept of Information and Technology

The Mann School