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Essay on Rural High Schools Use of Technology to Improve Student Academic Achievement
Like many other sectors, advances in technology are driving some pretty fundamental changes in education. By 2024, we will have started to see the results of this transformation. Education will be available 24 x 7 and will be "learner-centric," rather than instructor-biased. Rather than being viewed as a separate event, learning will be integrated into our everyday lives with the current one-size-fits-all model replaced by "my education, my way.
Technology in all forms, young and old or simple and complex, can be potent tools that engage learners in meta-cognitive reflection. These tools engage learners to rethink their old beliefs, knowledge, and understandings. These tools might allow learners to compare new ideas with other individuals to assess whether new concepts and ideas are plausible and fruitful. Technologies can be educators' tools in finding creative ways that encourage students to self-test, self-question, and self-regulate learning in helping them to create solutions to complex problems.
Today, due to a binary world of quick change, educators must venture on their own creative thinking in building a lifelong mastery with technology (Churach, Fisher, 2002). They must not only develop their ability to survive a very unpredictable digital information age, but also defeat the accompanying challenges. Not only is it unfavorable to blame technologies for ill-considered decisions, it is unwise. It is also unreasonable to believe that anyone could solve many long existing educational challenges if they could only interrupt the minute-by-minute proliferation of these technologies. The need for new technologies in teaching and learning will only continue to grow stronger and faster.
With the aid of technology, many teachers can take rural high school students beyond traditional classroom limits, creating virtual environments to experiment and explore. Technology should be utilized as an object of inquiry...........
