Sunday 9 May 2010

New technology, New Education

As I said before, the world has become a global village due to the internet. It has become easier to obtain information, than twenty years before. Furthermore, internet has become much more accessible for everybody.
Because our society has changed, the children, how are going to be the future of tomorrow have to be prepared to this new situation. It is the task of the school to prepare and educate the kids to the requirements of this new society.
To stimulate the use of modern technology at schools, governments are giving incentives in the form of subsidies to schools how are willing modernize their school methods by means of electronic devises and the internet.
One of this electronic devises is the new tablet PC. This tool is very similar to a portable laptop and it permits the student to have access to the internet, save files, make imagines etc...Moreover, there is no keyboard and you have to write with a digital pencil.
At this way, the students keep developing their writing as if they where writing at a real paper. The Tabel PC transforms the handwriting in to a text in a Word format. Another advantage is that the device is completely wireless, so that the students can walk around with it in class and even outsight the class at a maximal distance of ten metros.
They also can surf on the internet and therefore they learn to use it and search for information. Another handy gadget is that because the Tablet PC has access to internet, the parents are able to monitor the development of their children and they can participate with school projects.
The objective of such devices are to create more independency among the students, which will be very useful in their future career. They have already computer literacy and therefore a better change at the job market, but maybe more important, they will learn at a more joy and playful way like they have never done before.
This is just one of the great scales of technologies that will change the idea of school that we had until now. In order to give children the opportunity to learn more efficient and affectively with these new methods it is absolutely necessary that the teachers will be retained. There are already special courses founded to educate the teachers.

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