The basics of chemistry is make a change by addition. The simple things like mixing sugars, salts in water and the granules disappear. Metallic reactions give colour changes, bonding types, dissociation, solvents, gases, etc. Periodic table all in technology. How to do that?
With software widely available to display such phenomena graphically they can be embedded in students mind eternally. E.g. I still remember how we learnt the burning (reduction) reaction of K2Cr2O7 in school about 30 years ago due to clear change of colour from orange to green. Now these changes, with metals and its reaction, with the oxygen and forming oxides and releasing oxygen thus reduction - simple concepts such oxidation and reduction can be taught. Another example is the oxidation of iron and how it occurs - requirement of oxygen, water etc. These can now easily be taught using software tools.
To attract the students technology can be used to display such changes graphically. Rather teaching a concept by drawing on the board or referring to a page number in an 800 page text book it is easy to draw up two reagents by mixing give out a different product on the computer screen (perhaps a smiley on the bottom right).
We can use technology such as popular social media (FB) to portray chemistry is a subject to laud from the alchemy to the present nanochemistry. Students are eager to know what the term 'nano' means, perhaps nanotechnology is so often used that nanomaterials related chemistry can be used as nanochemistry if we the chemist who passionate about it.
Concepts of chemistry and its associated branches can be taught with technology to like the subject not to tire the students. Long live chemistry!
Thank you for your response Vidura . I think the chemistry is wonderful, however many students believe that science is boring and difficult. Thus , I believe that us teachers need to leave the comfort zone and propose lessons more interesting and contextualized .
In silico / computer modelling could serve students to become interested in chemistry subject, also linking it with other subjects with inter- / multi-disciplinary vision would add in making novel discoveries with high practical values. Infact my top numbered subject was chemistry in my high school though I became a biologist thereafter and chemistry has always helped me in my basic and applied researches .
It all depend how curious one is? Few years back I never thought that I will be learning and applying principals of Quantum mechanics and non-equilibrium Plasma physics in developing vaccine strategies. Curiosity pushed me towards engineering side to learn physics to solve problems in immunology.
Human body contains mostly chemistry equations and such dis-balance could cause disease, also environmental disbalances are due to chemistry disequilibrium, medicines and drugs - saves life due to chemistry - pharmacology - biological interactions, so students need to be stimulated to have knowledge of vast and diverse applications of chemistry to increase their interest.