Contemporary Education And Digital Technologies By Mladen Milicevic

Technology is developing and growing over the years in our society into new and improved resources. Schools originally started to only use the common chalkboard, whiteboard, or a projector screen to introduce and develop all of the content throughout the curriculum. If students were lucky they got to come up to the board to practice problems in front of the class, but besides that, the educator just usually takes notes on the board for the students to copy down in their notebooks. As years went on, schools started to implement devices such as Smartboards and laptops into the classroom, which gave the students an opportunity to have a more hands on and interactive experience while being engaged with the content. Currently, if students need some …show more content…
It creates a learning environment that is much more interactive and useful for the students to retain all of this new information they are being told. However, Milicevic also points out that having the ability of using these new devices gives the students access of just retaining useless information that does not matter or is not a true resource to follow. Having all of these new devices and resources for the students is also forming an environment where educators are not needed as much because all of this new learning is mainly run by peers and on their own. The technology is also preventing students from being able to interact in a physical learning environment rather than just learning on an online space on your …show more content…
Students tend to be able to focus and participate a lot more throughout the entire day when they are given the opportunity to use any sort of technological device to practice their skills rather than just a pencil and piece of paper to do their work. Having all of these new resources in the classroom is a huge advantage for students because they are much more interactive to learn on so the content is easily remembered rather than just being told all of the new information. These devices create such an enhanced learning environment as well by giving students an opportunity to share information with each other and to be able to discover these new ideas on their own and then being able to analyze and synthesize all of the new content on their own and at their own