The Importance Of Technology In Education

Technology isn’t a new idea, and the integration of new technology in the classrooms isn’t a new either. And with more and more information goes online each year, and students rely on using a computer and going on the internet to complete their assignments as result of it. On some occasions some students, generally those in poorer districts have no access to technology or internet usage whatsoever. On another note, computers exist in 98% of the classrooms in all America, but yet technology hasn’t been integrated into the curriculums for daily use by many schools at all, almost none if any; and it’s becoming a common practice for instructors to upload their assignments online and have student’s research material online. Also, government funding

In large support, both instructors and parents agree that applying technology to our teaching and learning structure is important for students today; and more than half of both groups believe that a curriculum imbedded with technology will play a large role in enlightening scholars in the next decades. There are problems though, not all schools in the United States have instant access to computer or laptops and high speed internet, and the same students who attend these schools often lack access to computers and the internet at home; in 2010 research showed that 70 percent of American’s lacked internet at home. And that only about 50 percent of families who made less than $15,000 had internet at home. This absence of technology from a student’s life can have grave effects on some schools and public libraries, like the South Dade Library in Florida, in which students have to reserve computers to use them, and they often wait an hour to even

More or less, the lack of training that the instructors receive prevents them from using technology in their curriculum to its fullest potential in the schoolroom. This overall affects the students, who are unable to exploit their potential in the classroom. And having teachers who aren’t trained to their peak, diminishes the opportunity for having students who are actually motivated to doing something new. The students need to be inspired somehow to achieve any good result whatsoever, and if the instructors don’t have a clue on what they’re supposed to do then neither will the students. Teachers trained well how to use technology in their classroom believe that they are providing their students with a learning structure that is tailored better for them, and that it offers a more versatile learning opportunity. The students become more involved in their own learning and begin to make closer ties between their work and the real world. Teachers also believe that exposing students to technology in the class, allows them to understand different concepts and view issues in different