Corporate DispatchPro ISABELLE MICALLEF BONELLO
Education – The panacea to a technology enabled future The pandemic has accentuated the need for digitalisation in all spheres of society and economy. From home schooling to teleworking to interacting with our older family members to purchasing our daily needs, technology has been the tool that enabled us to wither the discomforts of the pandemic and adopt to a new norm. The relationship between digital technologies and education is quite broad. At one end, technology is a valuable tool for the delivery of education both in class and remotely. On the other end of the spectrum, our education system has to guarantee the right output of graduates and skills in order to sustain the proliferation of use of digital technology in our everyday life and in the way business is conducted. The use of technology for the delivery of education goes beyond online learning. Technology improves the experience of the student while in formal education. At primary level for example, the use of the tablet has greatly increased the availability of learning applications making the teacher – student experience a more interactive one where students can use technology while learning languages, humanities, maths and other non-IT subjects, which until the recent past where delivered only through textbooks. The experience is even more enhanced with interactive boards, the use of technology-enabled applications for the posting of assessments, homework, and other resources. Considered by many a silver lining of the pandemic, the use of technology was pushed further by the contingency of home21
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