The Era of Digital Technology in Teaching and Learning in Nigeria Educational Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Blessing Foluso Adeoye
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

The influence of digital technology in society has made it critical for all students in the 21st century to become literate with the use of digital tools. One way to understand the evolving role of digital technologies in education in Nigeria is to review the literature and see how the use of digital technologies in the classroom are documented. The development and proliferation of the internet have contributed to a revolution in teaching and learning; it has also provided new opportunities for delivering instruction through various media. Despite all the plentiful opportunities of learning through digital technology and improving access to education in the country at all levels, there are, however, some setbacks. In this chapter, some success stories were presented with some benefits and setbacks. Even though many educational institutions from elementary levels to universities levels are using digital devices and applications for teaching and learning purposes, the tools may fail in many places due to the domination of traditional pedagogical approaches and methods.

scholarly journals Opetuksen ja oppimisen digiloikka kieltenopiskelijoiden silmin

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Anne Huhtala
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Digital Skills

This article focuses on how university language students reflect on digitalisation and their own digital skills, and what kinds of benefits and risks they see in the increasing use of digital technology in teaching and learning. The data used for this study are of two kinds: 25 students filled in a questionnaire consisting of open questions about digitalisation, and 10 students wrote an essay where they reflected on the role of digital technology in their lives. The data were analysed by using qualitative content analysis. According to the results, university students experience their digital skills as good, and rely on their ability to learn new skills when needed. They describe the role of ICT in their lives as important, but seem to use digital technology with deliberation. They see several benefits in the use of new technologies, e.g., versatility, but also many risks, including problems caused by a sedentary lifestyle.

Digital Technology in Kindergarten

2019 ◽  
pp. 1541-1560
Author(s):  
Vicki Schriever
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Parental Expectations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Digital Devices

This chapter examines the literature surrounding digital technologies within kindergarten. It highlights the ways in which mobile devices and smart gadgets are used by early childhood teachers and young children in diverse teacher-focused and child-centred approaches. The challenges faced by early childhood teachers to successfully use and integrate mobile devices and smart gadgets within their kindergarten will be explored. These challenges include, meeting curriculum requirements, mediating parental expectations, seeing the potential of digital technologies, having the confidence and self-efficacy to use digital devices and determining the value and place of digital technologies within a play-based environment. Each of these challenges are explored within the chapter and the ways these challenges can be overcome are detailed. The opportunities which mobile devices and smart gadgets present to maximise young children's learning, play and engagement and which facilitate and support the role of the early childhood teacher will also be examined.

Digital Technology in Kindergarten

2018 ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Vicki Schriever
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Parental Expectations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Digital Devices

This chapter examines the literature surrounding digital technologies within kindergarten. It highlights the ways in which mobile devices and smart gadgets are used by early childhood teachers and young children in diverse teacher-focused and child-centred approaches. The challenges faced by early childhood teachers to successfully use and integrate mobile devices and smart gadgets within their kindergarten will be explored. These challenges include, meeting curriculum requirements, mediating parental expectations, seeing the potential of digital technologies, having the confidence and self-efficacy to use digital devices and determining the value and place of digital technologies within a play-based environment. Each of these challenges are explored within the chapter and the ways these challenges can be overcome are detailed. The opportunities which mobile devices and smart gadgets present to maximise young children's learning, play and engagement and which facilitate and support the role of the early childhood teacher will also be examined.

scholarly journals Role of Whatsapp as a Teaching Aid to Enhance Learning Capabilities of Management Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Pooja S Kushwaha ◽  
Nidhi Jhawar
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Learning Capabilities ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Management Students

The liberalising of Business Education in 1990 by the Indian Government has resulted in a large number of management schools offering management courses at graduate and post graduate levels. In the last five years, the number of B-school seats has grown three times. Excluding the few top B-schools like IIMs, most of the B-schools in the country are churning “unemployable” graduates. The paper uses convenience sampling to collect data from students and faculty members of different B-schools in order to find out their usage of digital technologies like Whatsapp for teaching and learning. It also explains the use of digital technology in curriculum designing. This further helps them in placing students in good profiles and better packages as they are able to share more practical real time insights with them.

Developing Hypertext Reading Materials for the Teaching of Arabic

2011 ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Robert Ariew ◽  
Jeremy Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Reading Materials

Enrollments in Arabic language programs are rapidly growing throughout the United States. Until recently, Arabic has received minimal attention in educational institutions. This chapter describes the textbook materials and software resources in the field of Arabic language teaching and learning. As Arabic programs and teachers rush to implement new teaching materials, modernize and improve curricula, attention is paid to enhancing the role of technology in teaching Arabic. This chapter presents a review of issues related to teaching and learning Arabic, software applications that may assist Arabic learners and an innovative example of hypertext software that may be used to facilitate reading proficiency in Arabic.

scholarly journals ICT-enabled innovation in technology rich schools?

Seminar.net ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catarina Player-Koro ◽  
Dennis Beach
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Laptop Initiatives ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Upper Secondary Schools

This article takes its point of departure from the main findings from research into four upper secondary schools that have implemented digital technology through one-to-one laptop initiatives. Various data sources have been used in order to identify and understand how teaching and learning are organised and the reasons why and how digital technologies are used in educational settings. This is a response to a demand for more knowledge regarding the ways in which desirable changes of education can be realised and the potential role of educational technology this process. The conclusion drawn is that fundamental transformations in education are less concerned with technology and have more to do with changing structures and discourses regarding teaching, learning and education.

scholarly journals DIGITAL LITERACY AMONG CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Hario Bismo Kuntarto ◽  
Amit Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
School Children ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Digital Devices

The use of digital devices by children is on the rise and a better understanding of their usage behaviour can be helpful in designing better ways of imparting education. As per data from the Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association (APJII), in 2018, almost 50% of elementary school children were using the internet. However, an introduction to digital technologies is not included under the topics covered in state elementary schools in Indonesia. Field work involving teachers and children in state and non-state elementary schools, officials in ministries, ICT vendors, parents were conducted through interviews, observations and workshops related to the use of digital technology to better understand the digital behaviour of children. It was found that elementary school children get exposed to digital technology at a very early age and while the duration of use varies according to parental involvement and awareness, the content consumed by children is, in most cases, not appropriate for their age. This study illustrates that monitoring digital use among children is currently a challenge for parents, and digital literacy, which includes introduction to both positive and negative effects of digital devices as well as appropriate digital use behaviour, should become an important part of the theme of learning in elementary schools in Indonesia to ensure digital technologies help in the shaping of children's attitudes and character, in a manner that is valued and beneficial to the society. Kata Kunci: literasi digital, pemanfaatan digital oleh anak sekolah dasar, pengenalan digital pada anak   Abstract – Use of digital devices by children is on the rise and a better understanding of their usage behaviour can be helpful in designing better ways of imparting education. As per data from the Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association (APJII), in 2018, almost 50% of elementary school children were using the internet. However, an introduction to digital technologies is not included under the topics covered in state elementary schools in Indonesia. Field work involving teachers and children in state and non-state elementary schools, officials in ministries, ICT vendors, parents were conducted over a six-month study period to better understand the digital behaviour of children. It was found that elementary school children get exposed to digital technology at a very early age and while the duration of use varies according to parental involvement and awareness, the content consumed by children is, in most cases, not appropriate for their age. This study illustrates that monitoring digital use among children is currently a challenge for parents, and digital literacy, which includes introduction to both positive and negative effects of digital devices as well as appropriate digital use behaviour, should become an important part of the theme of learning in elementary schools in Indonesia to ensure digital technologies help in the shaping of children's attitudes and character, in a manner that is valued and beneficial to the society.

scholarly journals Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Pötzsch
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Competencies ◽  
Structural Aspects

The present contribution conducts an intervention in the study and practice of digital and media literacy. After reviewing key tenets of recent debates, I advance a specific understanding of the concept – critical digital literacy – that, as I argue, comprehensively addresses issues of knowledge, competencies, and skills in relation to digital technologies. In particular, I posit that critical thinking about educational and other values of ‘the digital’ needs to take structural aspects of the technology into account that are often eschewed in instrumental or commercially-driven approaches. To prepare pupils for their future lives requires a widest possible contextualisation of technology, including issues of exploitation, commodification, and degradation in digital capitalism. Finally, I make concrete suggestions for constructive uses of technology in teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Learning to Unlearn, and then Relearn: Thinking about Teacher Education within the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-546
Author(s):  
Alessandra Coutinho Fernandes ◽  
Sandra Regina Buttros Gattolin
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Deep Process ◽  
Use Of Technology

ABSTRACT For decades now, in the context of teacher education, we have been discussing the importance of paying attention to the fast and profound changes both in society and in people’s personal lives, as a consequence of the widespread use of new digital technologies. Yet, not much has changed in schools, where traditional teaching still rules. Students continue to be more knowledge consumers than active knowledge producers; besides, the use of technology for educational purposes remains as either a threat or an unattainable goal. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled educational institutions to rethink the role of technology in education. In this article, we comment on the crisis that has struck higher education and how it has set our institutions and ourselves, as professors and teacher educators, into a deep process of rethinking our past practices and reimagining our future.

scholarly journals Definition of Virtual Reality through Creative Act

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Maira Mukhtarovna Pernekulova ◽  
Ayazhan Sagikyzy ◽  
Zhamal Bazilovna Ashirbekova ◽  
Dinara Mukhtarovna Zhanabayeva ◽  
Gaukhar Abdikarimovna Abdurazakova
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Virtual Image ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Full Consideration

Currently there are many attempts to determine virtual reality which is created by digital technologies. The present article discusses this phenomenon in the creative act. This approach gives an opportunity for the full consideration of virtual reality because the category of reality includes not only digital technologies but subjective perceptions which creates problems in its definition. According to our understanding virtual reality is determined by the relation with the person’s virtual world and digital code. The person’s creative potential is defined, in its turn, as the person’s virtual. In the creative act between virtual reality and creative potential besides homogeneous connection there is an ontological connection and then virtual reality is a medium and a tool for the person’s creative potential realization. In this case the creative act is an actualization of images or symbols, by changing the intensities of the virtual image which results in the transition of the creative potential into otherness- the virtual reality of the code. As the tool of creative reality virtual reality plays the role of the digital technology which alienates the person’s time and space.   Received: 19 November 2020 / Accepted: 4 February 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

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