The Importance Of Technology In Education

Gone are the days where schools contained a standard blackboard or whiteboard and exercise books for every student. Nowadays, schools have incorporated new technologies such as online library databases, laptops for students, interactive whiteboards and online reports into their education system. This fast-growing development is supplying a larger majority of students with more opportunities to flourish as learning and an individual. Firstly, in light of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence theory, the interactive whiteboards can show YouTube documentary’s, interactive games and programs for art and music, and many different ways to apply a different angle on curriculum. A magazine article by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo in 2010, highlights that art students are able to be shown a Monet painting with high quality detail on the texture and Elements of Art, where as the same interactive whiteboard can show ninth grade biology a …show more content…
Fortunately, everything that is accessed by the interactive whiteboard can be accessed by a laptop. Therefore, all the examples mentioned above are available at the student’s fingertips. In light of Jean Piaget’s constructivist theory of learning that develops from within the child, laptops allow the students to self-explore the world of technology and the endless resources for education. For example, with schools that provide individual laptops that are permitted to be taken home and used at their own expense, students are provided the opportunity to gain knowledge of technology through their own experiences. Similarly, assessments that require study and a creation of ideas or presentation can be experimented through a variety of trial and errors on the laptops. Which, as well as the theory itself, will serve to be a great advantage in the afterlife of school. A trial/study conducted by the Queensland Government in found that students had