Up until the 1990s, it was common for people to think that technology and the education of youngsters shouldn’t mix. Before the technological revolution of the 2000s, parents, teachers, and even students themselves limited their ideas of effective education to physical classrooms, textbooks, and instructors who taught one class at a time.
Of course, today we know that this is no longer the case. Now that the global economy has become more internationalized and digitally-driven, and in the wake of events like the COVID-19 pandemic, technology's impact on the learning experience has only increased. Today’s students are expected to acclimatize to educational technologies as early as in their preparatory years and to get more proficient at learning with these technologies as they grow older.
But is it a bad thing that students’ current learning environments are so technology-driven? If technology is to be incorporated into modern-day educational pedagogies, what role should it play?
Fortunately, parents and other stakeholders can breathe a collective sigh of relief, as there’s mounting evidence that technology can do great things for a child’s education. Teachers will also be glad to know that today’s educational technology isn’t designed to replace them, but rather help them work more efficiently and effectively.
But how, exactly, is tech being used in the classrooms of top IB schools in Singapore and other educational institutions in the country? How has technology transformed the learning experience, and what other purposes can technology fulfil in the future? To answer these questions, let’s look at five key applications of educational technology in the modern classroom.
