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    Technology has greatly impacted education in several ways. It has changed the traditional method of physical, in-person learning to a new e-learning model with online and remote classes. While e-learning has advantages like reduced costs, improved teacher productivity, and increased accessibility of resources, it also has drawbacks such as distractions, lack of in-person interaction, and potential for misinformation online. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this transition to online learning worldwide when schools closed, affecting over 1.5 billion students. Both traditional and virtual learning methods have benefits and limitations, so the best approach combines their strengths through a blended model.

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    2022

    2022

    THE IMPACT OF
    TECHNOLOGY IN
    EDUCATION

    COMMUNICATION SKILLS
    ANDRÉ SOBRAL GUTIÉRREZ

    UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID


    If there is one thing that characterizes the most the 21st century, that is undoubtedly the advance
    of technology. Technology is immersed in every area of our lives having a grand impact in
    every realm of human endeavour. The invention of the Internet revolutionized everything,
    altering how we communicate with our peers, how we discover information, how we work…
    A question needs posing, what have been the consequences of the Internet and other tech tools
    on the educational sector? The main purpose of this essay is to analyse the impact of technology
    in the schooling sector, one I consider pivotal for the development of our society. Education
    has been restructured by the emergence of digital tools changing the mainstream physical
    method of learning and introducing a new remote student-based methodology called e-learning.
    Gone are those days when we were forced to go to the library to find about a certain topic. We,
    nowadays, have at our reach all the information imaginable within milliseconds. Additionally,
    this alteration has been partly driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    In this essay, we will first cover the conventional way of learning, paying attention to the
    advantages and disadvantages of the methodology. Secondly, we will focus on the latter way
    of learning, again analysing the advantages and disadvantages. Thirdly, we will talk about the
    consequences of the covid pandemic on education. Lastly, a conclusion will be provided to
    recap all the mentioned.

    Education has always been part of the nature of society, being necessary to prepare the new
    generations to understand the world fully. Since very little we are taught subjects like maths;
    which develop our critic mind, history; which enhances our analytical spirit, literature: which
    opens our eyes to the cultural world and science; which helps us to understand the empirical
    rules that are present in our lives. The conventional way of learning and teaching has always
    been the physical classes where a teacher explains the subject to a group of students. This
    approach has both advantages and disadvantages.

    On the one hand, the conventional way of learning is beneficial in certain aspects. Firstly, it
    enhances the social abilities of the students since they learn to behave in public and to make
    friends in person within the class. Secondly, it separates the students from digital devices which
    can be harmful if they are overly used. Thirdly, students can ask directly questions to the
    professors during the explanations.

    On the other hand, the conventional learning method has several drawbacks. First, since classes
    are presential students and teachers must commute to get there, therefore only persons from
    the same area can be reunited. Secondly, it has high costs of schooling since you must pay for
    the professor and the class materials. Thirdly, sometimes it can get boring because there is little
    interaction.

    Using technology in education has many benefits. Technology has changed the way we learn.
    Through devices such as smartphones, laptops and tablets, our possibilities have become
    broader and studying more interesting. The use of technology in education is beneficial in many
    ways.

    First, teachers’ productivity and efficiency have improved since digital tools make easier the
    creation of teaching materials and there are more available on the Internet. Plus, if the classes
    are online, they are only recorded once and viewed multiple times by an infinite number of
    students. Regarding the assessment, they can opt to automatic ways of correcting tests.

    Secondly, a reduced cost of scaling to more students since teachers can record themselves in
    their houses once and teach online to grand numbers of people. Thus, tuition costs have
    decreased, and education can be offered at a more affordable price for everyone. In addition,
    resources have become more available and everyone with access to the internet can learn for
    free watching videos or reading e-books.

    Thirdly, the introduction of technology in education has encouraged more communication


    between teachers, parents and students. Education apps like Google Classroom helps in the
    exchange of information between the individuals allowing instantaneous response without
    having to be present in the same place. All of this promotes collaboration in classrooms by
    breaking down barriers. Instead of relying on limited face-to-face social interaction, online
    spaces allow collaboration to occur more naturally.

    Fourthly, technology aids students to be ready for their future lives since digital tools are the
    pen and paper of our time. Educational games for instance help children to become more
    creative, inventive and flexible, they are an interesting way of learning skills necessary for
    the future while having fun. Technological skills are highly demanded in the current
    workforce, and they will be more for the future generations. Thus, it is imperative that
    children develop these capacities at a young age.
    With more and more technologies being introduced into the classroom today, there are still
    many concerns about the consequences of rapidly integrating new technologies. Many of
    these concerns are legitimate. This is because most teachers are unable to properly integrate
    technology into their teaching methods. These are some drawbacks of using technology in
    education.

    Firstly, technology is not cheap and devices like laptops, tablets and phones are not
    affordable by everyone. Technology required in the education includes internet services,
    computer hardware, printers, Internet browsers etc. Acquiring all of these needs a lot of
    money to invest in technology at every school.

    Secondly, e-learning can sometimes be very distracting, with nobody paying attention to the
    students they could lose their time being unfocused. Nowadays, phone addictions are very
    high which is having a bad effect on student’s studies. Cell phones have become a great
    source of distraction in the classroom and have brought problems like cyberbullying and
    cyber harassment.

    Lastly, despite it is true that the Internet can offer a lot of valuable information, it can also be
    a cause of misinformation since the data is not checked sometimes. Many websites and online
    sources offer information that is not veridic and intend to deceive and mislead its readers. As
    learners and teachers, we must do a job of checking if the source is reliable, and the
    information is credible by contrasting it with other sources.

    Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic impact in the education, it has undoubtedly


    revolutionized it, disrupting established learning methods and introducing a new modern
    technological method called e-learning. When the lockdown guidelines arrived, we couldn't
    leave our homes, so we couldn't go to school. All education centres around the world were
    closed, paralyzing the entire learning process. Worldwide, over 1.5 billion students and 630
    million teachers were absent from the classroom (Statista Research Department, 2022). This
    situation forced us to find new plausible alternatives to conduct classes without a physical
    presence. As a result, the rise of e-learning became the norm, accelerating the adoption of
    technical tools in the education sector.

    To cut long story short, presential and virtual learning are two valid ways in the educational
    sector, having each of them their positive and negative points. On the one hand, conventional
    learning allows students to interact socially with their peers and to ask questions directly to
    professors. Plus, it is a good opportunity to get away from the devices. However, it can be
    boring and obsolete for our time, costly and time-consuming. On the other hand, e-learning is
    more efficient for professors, more scalable, more adequate for our time and less time-
    consuming. However, e-learning can be very distracting, devices are not cheap and
    information online may not be veridic. In addition, the covid pandemic accelerated the
    process of integration of technology in education. Balancing all the mentioned, I consider the
    most appropriate way of education a mix of both alternatives, integrating the positive aspects
    of both.
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