Technology helps promote equality in education by providing students in low-income districts with important skills and learning advantages. It also motivates and engages students by instantly tracking their progress, and can create healthy social competition amongst peers. While affordability remains a challenge, technology enrichment content and allows more immediate student performance assessments beyond just test scores.

1. Importance of Technologyin
Education
By: Allaiza Marie Avila
8:30-9:30
Edtech 2D
2015

2. Equality: School districts across the country
are not created equal. There is so much
disparity in educational resources
depending on the wealth, or lack thereof,
depending on certain areas. Students using
technology in low income districts gain
significant skills and advantages in the
learning process.

3. Motivation: Technology tracks and reports
student’s progress instantly. What fun is
running a marathon if you don’t know how
long it takes. Runners can get instant
feedback for hundreds of data points as to
their condition.

4. Social: This runs along the same lines as
motivation. Creating a social element to
educational technology can allow for
healthy competition amongst peers both in
the same classroom or across the country.

5. Affordability: Most developing countries are
struggling to equip schools with basic ICT
devices and digital resources.

6. Content: ICT integration enriches the
process of educational content
development and dissemination by
making far more content and teaching
models available to learners and
educators.

7. Assessments: Assessing students
performance can be done instantly with
technology. It’s more than just test scores,
simply understanding students grasp of the
subject in real time can be done on tablets
in classrooms.