Using Digital Age To Unlock Learning

Most of the time we are evaluating teachers and professors and are judging their ways of teaching to get answers regarding the performance of teachers. But the question is that whether this is the right approach? Is evaluating teacher’s performance the right way to judge educational standard?

No, in doing so we ignoring one major participant, students, they are the major part of the evaluation and they need to be assessed as well with the evaluation of the teacher. Evaluating any one person is not justifiable because both have to be judged to have a fair evaluation. So once decided that students learning is the key to the evaluation, how can we enhance this learning with the help of technology.

The role of technology, internet, has been immense when comes to learning. Internet provides the link between world of knowledge and students. There is a pool of information on internet in the form of web, and anyone can access it if they have computer and internet. Many organizations such as CFY provide computers to households that have children in 6 grade and above. In addition to this to further facilitate students and their parents , as this technology is comparatively new to both the young and old generations , the organization CFY has this programmed named Power My Learning. In this program students and parents are given web based training so that they can make use of the web and the information it hold. This is a very strong step towards not only strengthening the basics of students and making parents familiar with the new technology but also making students familiar with the searching skills. This training is useful when later in college or university life you are given course work that requires detail research. When students don’t have strong searching skills then they tend to suffer and usually are seeking help from coursework writing service since they are not able to do the research on their own.

Digital age provided many platform of learning for students, such as there are many social platforms that provide students with the technology to improve their learning. One such learning is pinterest, which provides a digital board to both students and teachers, where they can post material from web and can discuss that. This is one form of learning, sometimes students find other forms of learning such as visual to be more attractive and easy to learn. You tube provides many such videos where digital age is being used to unlock learning. This form of learning increases student’s attention and make it easier for the teachers to make students learn things and concepts.