The importance of using technology in education
The presence of technology in the twenty-first century has become necessary in educational process. to facilitate the educational process. The use of technology will improve this process greatly.
The importance of using technology in education stems from the following points:
• It motivates the teacher to acquire teaching skills by using modern technologies, such as tablets, digital cameras, and computers.
• It increases the Students’ motivation to learn , so learning becomes more enjoyable, and thus it contributes to raising students’ self-directed learning, which helps to make learners more interactive with the content presented to them.
• Access to various scientific sources, whether at home, school, or university.
•Ease of access to a huge amount of information that is difficult to ne obtained in a short time.
• Technology allows direct communication among learners, teachers and their students, thus it enhances the cooperation and social relations among them.
• It helps the teacher to diversify the methods of presenting educational materials by using pictures, drawings and videos to facilitate the explanation of the scientific material.
• Overflow of the time and place where technology contributes to the continuity of the education process. Where the learner can access educational materials via the Internet at any time he wants, which makes it easier for him to organize his learning time within his other life tasks.
Thus, we find that technology has become closely linked to education in schools, universities and institutes. The teacher and students must be prepared to face the world that contains a lot of technological fluctuations.
It is worth mentioning that the Bact Center for Training and Education provides teachers with a training course on the use of technology in education, allowing each teacher to use modern technology, providing successful and effective electronic classes and lessons, and enabling learners to deal with appropriate electronic platforms and employ them to achieve educational goals….👍