Dear Zeyad, this is a very relevant question in the digital age. We in India trying to transformed the traditional classrooms into more technology driven to improve student engagement and learning outcome. This requires investment. However, as an initial step we are using free videos and MOOCs in the schools. This pilot is successful one. Now we are requesting teachers to prepare small videos on the subjects and upload in server through a teacher innovation initiative. The result is great. You can start this using following steps;
1. Identify free videos and MOOCs which are relevant
2. Classify and use as pilot
3. Prepare further action plan and road-map
I have experience in this, I can help you if needed.
We can do that by changing our lesson plan in a way so that there is more use of digital conten. For instanc, we can refer our students to flipped materials and discuss that in class
When I was a student, professors' lectures had to be written down thorough during the lecture times. It was quite a destruction for many students as writing, thinking, and understanding quickly and concurrently aren't a typical skills set of many students.
Today, such an application like YOU TUBE can record the lecture and disseminate it worldwide in no time. Hence, students can review the lecture as many times as they want forward and backward with the speed commensurate with their understanding and memorization of key points. Hence, delivering information to students in the most comfortable for the students way is not a technical problem anymore.
Moreover, there could be prescheduled online sessions when professors could answer student's questions in a real time - this technology is well developed and relatively cheap for teaching organizations.
The remaining question is the efficiency of students' tests that could be arranged in special test/examination rooms spread around respective territories and providing identity and uniform requirements control during the online programmatic test/examination.
In other words, communication, computer, and software application technologies quality, capabilities, and features set allow for dramatic improvements in colleges' teaching concepts, processes, and visions.
High standard education technologies are based on the available budgets and best administration for good management and very effective friendly discipline equally imposed on management, teaching as well as students. In order to adopt reputation, it needs; lot of motivation, hard work, strong determination for adding and transferring education from high potentials(teachers) to lover potentials (students) . It is a very big topic, however., I would suggest you some links :https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/top-tech-tools-for-formative-assessment
The main problem lies in the student’s desire to accept modern technology, the student needs in the first stage, especially a very exciting technology that works to deliver scientific materials with the achievement of pleasure for the student and when there is a compatibility between the scientific subject and technology . The professor can increase scientific doses using modern technology in the advanced levels of study.
There is no need to adapt new technologies to the traditional educaton. You dear Dr. said “traditional” which means old and incapable to Keep up with the requirements of the modern life. It needs to replace by modern education. Life develops by modern science “new invention” not by tradional education. Their is a prove to my words, see the high respect and strong journals, they are insisting on references from the last five or ten years. They refuse the traditional references even though they are written by Chomsky and du Saussure.
We can adapt modern technologies to serve traditional education in educational institutions to attract students by teaching students the great importance of these technologies in their career and academic future and that these technologies help them to obtain a distinguished position in life.
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If traditional education is part of a pedagogical system of a university and couldn't replace by the new technology, you can add a practical work to it. Use PowerPoint slides to explain the material. You can even add curriculum videos as a new technique to kill the routine.
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This can be done through our excellent teaching of university professors of modern technologies so that we can communicate and teach these technologies clearly and smoothly to our students without boredom or sophistication.
This can be done through our excellent teaching of university professors of modern technologies so that we can communicate and teach these technologies clearly and smoothly to our students without boredom or sophistication.
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Colleges and universities have generally been quick to adopt new technologies, often even before their educational value has been proven. Throughout its history, higher education has experimented with technological advances as diverse as the blackboard and the personal computer. Some technologies have become permanent parts of the higher education enterprise. Others, such as the slide rule and the 16-millimeter movie projector, have been replaced as more sophisticated or more cost-effective technologies have emerged to take their place.
Colleges and universities have generally been quick to adopt new technologies, often even before their educational value has been proven. Throughout its history, higher education has experimented with technological advances as diverse as the blackboard and the personal computer. Some technologies have become permanent parts of the higher education enterprise. Others, such as the slide rule and the 16-millimeter movie projector, have been replaced as more sophisticated or more cost-effective technologies have emerged to take their place.
I think your question is about teachers like us i.e. how we are going to get adapted to new technologies. It is one of the biggest problems in the education industry around the world. I think there is only one way to solve it. Most of the time we remember that we are teachers. Its not wrong to remember that. I am not speaking against this. But what I am saying is that it would be better to remember that a students is just a student. But, a teacher is a teacher and a student. As teachers we should be teachable. We should just not be teaching. If we are teachable, we can learn anything.
In my opinion, the issue that you have raised is more of a psychological issue. Its about what we believe. If we believe that we need to learn, we can learn. Let me tell you about modern India's greatest thinker, Swami Vivekananda. He always emphasized on beliefs. Her said that you become what you believe. Your mind will constantly make you gravitate towards your beliefs.
Technology can be utilized to improve teaching and learning and help our students be successful. ... Through the use of learning management systems (LMS) students can access online resources to get assistance on demand beyond the physical reach of their teacher. Technology can also extend education in another way. https://www.trustradius.com/buyer-blog/how-technology-improves-education
Virtual exchange of learning materials and instrumental methods may be of help. Traditional education technologies enable students to connect with the course any time any place (e.g., Moodle-based teaching platforms). Their main goal is to facilitate communication and exchange of material among instructor and students. Social media applications also affect teaching activities.
Technology-enhanced learning, with properly target audience-oriented or customised teaching and learning methodologies, can provide affordable, engaging, and personalised learning. E-learning courses, either in a stand-alone format or blended with other types of instruction and training, can efficiently close the knowledge and skills gap if combined with innovative pedagogy (teaching, learning, and assessment).
One example of this is the flipped classroom, where students listen to a lecture online and then participate in a group discussion or project work.
Requirements for employing technology in education:
1- Preparing university students to face a world full of modern technical developments before graduation, as most sectors have become requiring experience in dealing with technologies at work.
2- Providing male and female teachers with the necessary competencies to use and manage modern technology in the teaching process.
3- Enable the teacher and teacher to clarify the difficulties that students face in the process of integrating and employing modern technologies in education.
4- Male and female students ’knowledge of the technology used in teaching and their ability to interact with it.
5- Providing school infrastructure, including computer devices, the Internet, and required software.
6- The presence of highly qualified cadres in dealing with modern technology means and networks and their maintenance.
Many educational tools offer a variety of functionalities that promote collaboration. For example, Skype provides a way for students to hold virtual meetings with classmates from anywhere in the world. With Google Drive, students can easily share and edit projects with each other.
New technologies always should be appreciated for traditional learning. Very beginning we should have to focus on the limitations of our traditional learning and then it could be removed gradually. During corona pandemic e-learning has played a nice role in our education sector. Different teaching aids like multimedia, power point slide presentation has the significant contributions instead of white, black board which aids were a traditional component of our education.