Opinion: How Students Can Benefit from Technology

Introduction: 

Can you imagine a classroom today without technological facilities? It’s a disaster. All levels of education in Nigeria can benefit from the advancement of technological resources available today. But are Nigerian schools ready or willing to embrace technology in this 21st century?

Therefore, we highlight below the main benefits that technology can bring to education and its impact on Nigerian students- and how it can be decisive for institutions to establish themselves in the market.

Top Benefits of Technology to Education

1. Improves the Quality of Education

Technology opens the door to many possibilities, in addition to helping students source materials easily and allowing teachers to utilize other resources to improve their teaching methods.

With tech gadgets increasing day by day, we believe it’s high time Nigerian Universities and public schools started harnessing technology in their classrooms. Imagine a class of over 1000 students, how would students assimilate what the teacher is saying in such condition? With technology, students can learn via their laptops and mobile smartphones.

2. Classes Get More Interesting

When technology is included in education, the classes become more interesting and fun. By allowing both students and lecturers to use new learning resources, classes tend to be encouraging and motivating – especially for students who need to be continually motivated.

3. Encouraging interaction

The use of technology favors interaction between students. Even students considered shy can interact through technological tools. When doing activities in pairs or groups, the internet allows everyone to express their knowledge and give opinions, which brings up the students’ previous experience, which motivates them even more, as they feel an active and vital part of the learning process.

4. Respect for individuality

When the student interacts with the computer, it is possible to adapt the subjects according to the personal needs of each student. In this way, students with cognitive disabilities can do different exercises using the same topic, the other students can advance in activities according to their knowledge, and the gifted can move forward, in search of new challenges.

5. Visual materials

The visual materials that the web has, make the absorption of content by the students happen more precisely. The vast majority of people are visual, so the use of figures will enable students to better memorize and assimilate the content. In most Nigerian universities where students have to buy handouts and what-have-you, visual materials could help out. We believe that adding this tech tool to the classroom will be a game-changer for every Nigerian student.

5. Encourages the Search for Knowledge

This is one of the significant benefits that technology can bring to Nigerian students. With technology, there are endless possibilities for what a student can do. Ever wondered why Nigerian students do better in outside countries? The reason is technology.

Conclusion

We’ve highlighted some great benefits of technology to Nigerian students and even the lecturers. It’s left for the education sector of Nigeria to sit up and do the needful if they don’t want Nigerian students to be a laughing stock to other students around the world. Technology is changing lives, and we believe that Nigerian students can do better if they have access to it.