The era of high technological progress is so fast and effective in many industries and spheres of a man’s activities now provides the educational system with plenty of innovations urged to optimize the educational process and to make it more efficient and versatile. Students of today have forgotten about those simple tools and aids with the help of which studied previous generations of people. Global computerization gave students and their teachers an opportunity to facilitate some approaches as searching appropriate information to course materials or additional sources full media and other files in order to make the educational process more interesting and attractive for students and teachers as well.
The only question to be unanswered is whether so many computer devices provoke in students better results in literacy issues? It is considered now that there are too many sources providing students with points on literacy and its promotion via global or local nets. Hence, a teacher should guide them into the realm of rules and formulae adhering to the currently accepted standards of literal implementation. Flipcharts, desktops, laptops CD, or DVD players are vital for a developed system of education. Their influence seems to be crucial on the users and promotes the idea that the assistance of teachers soon may appear to be useless. Can it be so? Why should people restructure and reorganize the schedule and methods of education?
The variety of technologies provided in different spheres of man’s everyday life cannot but reflect on the points regarding education and literacy, in particular. Those tools connected with gaining information via the Internet handle well by means of several icons or windows for defining user’s choice. Audiobooks, texts, libraries, video resources – this entire one can easily find on the global net. As early as ten years ago people dreamed of such innovations; now they are available.
Such changes tend teachers and current students to get accustomed to the technological preferences so that to improve the base of their knowledge not to lag behind. Since the point is that all the amenities of the twenty-first century also provide people with less activity. Laziness becomes more powerful within students, so they stop studying the way it should be. Here comes a critical statement of veteran teachers that by means of such changes the educational system can be brought to naught. This happens because it is hard for them to learn some new and progressive means of maintaining the educational process.
The learning process in my University is far connected with the challenges of the present day and provides me with better support in guiding students in new topics or material needed. Various devices, mainly, computers connected to the Internet encourage the students with more information and me as a teacher with less work on checking the papers. Such mutual relationships between men and technological appliances facilitate as well as improve current goals in education in terms of their enlargement in the future. My role as a teacher was transformed into a man guiding and controlling a strive of students on the way to perfection of their knowledge base.
Works cited
Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction. Web.