Technology as a boon to education

Are you excited to get back to school? It’s time to make a “back-to-school” to do list, shop for school supplies, buy a new school wardrobe, and celebrate the end of summer. The general advice continues on: avoid trouble, make new friends, stay organized, and don’t procrastinate.  If you do all of that you can look forward for a great academic year ahead. 

With constant evolution of technologies, today’s world offers various electronic gadgets and applications that can enhance the productivity, creativity and overall well-being of students. The modern parents should pay attention to their children and change the approaches on raising young ones and fortifying their capabilities. Similarly, the teachers should use new curricula that can best meet the social as well as academic needs of Generation Z. 

Cell phones are most popular form of communication for this generation. Although parents have the notion that mobiles can only create distractions, there are some academic benefits for students who carry cell phones. This booming technology can be a useful time keeping tool as phones have alarm function that makes sure they wake up on time each morning. It also helps students who don’t have a watch to keep track of time so that they can be punctual and stick to their lesson plans. Likewise, mobiles have a calendar feature which can help students record homework assignments and put a reminder of important dates to excel in their school work. 

Schools have therefore realized the power of smart phones and power tablets that can enhance learning in classrooms. The following applications have become the fastest trends in education system of today: 

ABCya games: ABCya has about 400 fun and educational games for grades kindergarten through six. Parents and educators have now understood the importance of the linkage between children’s learning and their having fun. The games teach essential skills that students need to succeed and are categorized by grade and subject, and cover topics such as parts of speech, typing and multiplication. 

News-O-Matic EDU: This is one of the first daily newspapers dedicated just for students. It provides an engaging and exciting nonfiction experience for students with valuable literacy tools for classroom. News-O-Matic creates innovative solutions with the unique combination of good editorial contents and technology.  

ONLYOFFICE Documents: This application is a complete school and business based cloud and on-site document management system. It is available over a number of platforms and comes in a range of free and subscribed packages. As it’s free of cost, it is quite popular and is available in a number of different languages. 

Explain Everything Whiteboard: It is an easy-to-use interactive whiteboard with screen casting application. Here information is presented to students in a visually engaging manner. This app helps students to learn, create and present individual or group projects. 
The applications mentioned above can be a used in a way that can save both time and money, as they are very inexpensive and easy to use. Parents are timely updated about school activities and they boost student and parent engagement. They also promote communication between teachers and parents through shared information which in turn encourages community development.