Education has always been the most important part of any personal development. For around 10-15 years, depending on the part of the world where you live in, the vast majority of your time is invested in school and school-related work. Being such an important part of life, it’s natural that we want to make it as good as possible. This also means that it has to undergo some changes from time to time, as we develop better systems and better aids in teaching. We’ve seen this trend for as long as education has existed, and nowadays it comes naturally to also try and implement technology, with all of the potential that it brings.

There are many good examples of how this implementation can be made and what kind of possibilities it creates. For example, the ability for the professor to upload his/her lectures online, so that they can be accessed by all students even if they can’t attend the class at the moment. Think of all the children that would otherwise be completely unable to attend school at all, be it because they’re unable to travel to school for one reason or the other, or to attend those classes at the times they’re usually held.

Then you should also take into account apps and platforms such as Flashnotes or Edmodo, which facilitate not only entire yearly courses to be held online, but also give incentive for students to take notes during classes, as they can sell them later on for a small profit to others that really need those. We’ve also seen a big switch to mobile phones, especially in the IT area of studies. That’s why more and more people that want to learn more are gaining access to Android studies for cyber security and VPN.

Educations must follow the world

But why is that? Why do we really need technology in education, and just how much benefit does it really bring? Well, a lot, actually, and here’s why. First of all, technology gives the potential to interact with it. By implementing it into education you’re making a process that was usually just one-way (studying from a book, taking notes, listening to the teacher) completely interactive (virtual professors, chat rooms, online projects, sharing…). Not only is this much more interesting for the students, but it’s also a much more efficient way of learning new things. In fact, several researches performed by universities across the world have shown that you can learn much more through practice than you can through simple studying from paper or by repeating something someone else said.

In addition to that, you’re also allowing students to become familiar with technology at a young age, which is very important as we keep getting more and more dependent on it in our everyday lives. It’s also a positive mark in your CV if, for example, you can say that you’re very familiar with Excel or PowerPoint, or any data-analysis software, all of which are something you can’t learn how to use unless you use them extensively.

Apart from interactivity, technology also allows you to access the Internet in your studies. Instead of limiting yourself to a couple of books at most as your source of information during class, you now have the entirety of Internet at your disposal. If you’re doing a project on a certain topic, you can get informed on relevant and updated data about it in a matter of seconds. The same goes if you want to learn something specific, or just connect the things that you’re learning in class to what’s happening in the world, and see how the knowledge you’re gaining can be applied. This enhances both your problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

Access to the Internet, in combination with apps such as the ones mentioned at the beginning, also allow for communication levels never seen before in education. A student could have a problem with their homework, contact the teacher, and get an answer in less than half an hour, instead of having to wait for at least a day until the next class with that teacher. You could also have organized forums for students to express themselves, share stories and experiences, and maybe help each other with valuable information about some professors.

Finally, if you have technology, you also have access to multimedia content. The usual “if a picture speaks a thousand words, a video speaks a million” holds here as well. You really do miss out on a lot if all insight you have into a certain topic are words on a page or spoken by a motionless person.

All of this brings up the natural conclusion that, if of course done correctly, the implementation of technology could be the biggest improvement to happen to the educational system, ever.