Top 7 Trends of Education Technology for 2021

 

We all know that traditional teaching methods are becoming obsolete with the emergence of new and advanced technology. Educational methods nowadays use more and more technology orientation in classes as it's more practical and easier to understand.

Trends in technology keep changing over the years; to give you an example CRT monitors were popular in our school days, but now no one even buys a PC, the current trending things are laptops, tablets, and smartphones and soon laptops will be out of fashion. This is how it works and it’s no different in education.

Today we bring you the top 7 technological trends in education that we as RBSE English Medium Agriculture School in Jaipur have also incorporated into our curriculum.

Technological trends for a better education

We at Ideal Education point are not saying this; it has been proven for a fact that incorporating technology into the classroom and home education makes it better, more practical, and enjoyable.

Education on the internet

The world is online, from shopping to restaurant services to even calling a beautician or barber home at a suitable time, there are A to Z services available, so why not use the internet for education?

Other than finding any information on the go there are online education and fun learning classes available on the go that can be accessed from anywhere, open book and open search engine education has been there before but not like this, it’s beneficial for both the teachers and students at the Best Schools in Pratap Nagar Jaipur.

To give you an example, by teaching online the teacher is free to teach in any way that suits the pupils, the teacher can get as creative as possible to make the lesson as fun as possible, on the other hand, students will also pay attention in classes that are not plain textbook classes, plus the students can download online resources for future reference.

Assessment of students online

Just like online education, the assessment can also be made online. Assessment of students is a very important aspect of any curriculum; each student must be evaluated in terms of theory and practical learning.

In traditional education, the passing and failing of a student depend completely on theory knowledge, these theory exams are already online, but that’s not the goal of real education.

To overcome this, students need to be evaluated based on practical knowledge, virtual reality and AI-driven simulation software are required to be implemented for practical tests while reducing the number of theoretical tests. Here’s a quote that we think goes well with this point “make education more theatrical and less theoretical.”

From the above point, we don’t mean to completely eradicate theory exams, because theatrical knowledge of any topic is base on the practical implementation of it. Online evaluation applications make assessing students much easier and better, the app has features that can allow the students to write answers based on speech recognition and a timer, plus the application bars the student from opening any other website to cheat. Overall it’s a good alternative to offline assessment.

Blockchain mechanism and education

Blockchain is an emerging technology that allows transferring data but prevents it from being changed midway. Using blockchain can thus prevent the system from being hacked. Blockchain is going to boost innovation n the education sector.

Without the use of blockchain, schools maintain a record of each student separately, the institution doesn’t allow any third-party interference for safety reasons, but here’s the catch, the verification of each record is to be done manually which can end in errors.

Blockchain can help overcome these issues. It offers features such as information collaboration and validation which can be useful to validate student marks and certificates; likewise, the technology can be used to store digital copies of students’ certificates across multiple systems on a single server since it allows data duplication.

This can solve various issues like loss of original data, illegal duplication, modification of documents, and authentication of education records. Schools will also have an added benefit of having to spend fewer amounts on making infrastructure to store students’ educational credentials.

Learning made personalized

To put it simply traditional classes have the same standard syllabus despite each student having a difference in interests and grasping capacity, this method is thus unconventional as each pupil will not have the same pace in learning, even adults have unique interests and learning capacities, to give you a fair example, video streaming websites recommend us streams based on our interests.

We can apply similar methods in education. Evaluation in traditional education is based on marks of a student in individual subjects, traditional systems don’t even keep in mind that some students are weak in theory but are excellent in practice, this leads to unhealthy competition.

For example, if a student scores less in a subject, that student starts comparison with other students with the question “why am I worse than others?” which can be a loss in the distant future. Personalized learning considers the strengths and weaknesses of each student and creates a syllabus that is fit for every learner.  

Personalized learning thus has several benefits over traditional learning.

1)      Improves student ability to understand and grasp the lesson.

2)      It helps each student to learn at a suitable pace.

3)      It removes location constraints.

4)      It is independent of classrooms.

Personalized analysis 

Artificial intelligence is the latest discussion in modern-day technology, AI encoded gadgets work similar to our brain, this technology is widely used in multiple fields across the globe such as medical science, space technology, and military, etc. implementing AI in education will completely revolutionize it.

The feedback given by teachers has some limitations in terms of understanding the student’s current improvement based on past educational achievements.

A custom-developed AI can analyze each student’s exam performance in detail; can record a student’s response during intelligence tests, can understand a student’s mindset and behavior, and even predict that student’s possible behavior in the future. Implementing AI in education can have endless possibilities.

Exam Management

Let us take a look at how manual exam management works, students go to an exam center where an invigilator is physically present to monitor individual examinee, the students write on an answer sheet (and can also possibly cheat) after the paper is done it is handed over to the proctor and then checked by teachers. This is not an efficient method due to a lot of manual human involvement.

The solution is to use AI embedded proctors that can evaluate the student using automatic video, image, and audio monitoring during online examinations, and then the same AI system can be used for evaluation.

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is the talk among masses, everyone wants to buy a VR device and we couldn’t help it either because of the device’s seemingly unreal feature, a VR device projects virtual video, image or graphics into the real world, creating an illusion that it is a part of reality.

In terms of retaining knowledge, a VR device can become a handy tool. Even in the past where instead of traditional teaching when audio, video, and graphics were used, students remembered more of the lecture. We believe that VR is going to take it to the next level. It has been scientifically proven that when a human can see something, in reality, the retention is better and the same theory applies to VR in education.