HOW CAN NEW TECHNOLOGIES HELP STUDENTS IN THEIR STUDIES?

HOW CAN NEW TECHNOLOGIES HELP STUDENTS IN THEIR STUDIES?

With the help of technology students nowadays can learn more information and learn it more quickly. New technologies have helped students cross boundaries, have opened up new horizons for them and have increased the speed at which they get information.

New technology in the form of Internet has helped break the limitations of a country's frontiers. A student sitting in a small town in Morocco or elsewhere can access the latest course material released by MIT on his topic of interest. He can gain access to the latest info that his happening in physics and thus improve his knowledge. He can browse through the previous papers in physics and go deeper in his specialized study. And how long does this all take? A click of a mouse. Compare this with searching through the mazes of his small hometown library only to find some outdated articles while wasting a great part of his time.

Technology has helped open up many new avenues that previously were considered impossible. Take for example the simple LCD projectors. They give a visual feel of the subject that the student is studying helping him to learn not only quickly but also effectively. In addition, video conferencing enables students to ask questions over far distances and interact with their teachers to make some study matters clearer.

In concluding I would like to say that technology has played a major role not only in increasing the speed at which students learn but also in bringing a radical change in the way they learn it.