How Digital Age Is Affecting Students

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How Digital Age is Affecting Students
We are living in a Digital age where advanced
technology has made the life of humans so easy as
well as effective and mostly everything depends
on it like we can get any information about the
world with just the click of a button or we can
connect with multiple people at once with the
help of web conferencing. The only sector that
benefited from new technology was the educational
sector as the growth in educational technology
has completely changed the learning process of
the students as many schools like Boarding
schools especially the boarding schools in
India has introduced a new way of teaching using
Ed-Tech that made the learning engaging fun and
more interactive.
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Schools used to care about marks which made
students learn just to pass the test or get good
marks without caring about understanding the
material and gain knowledge which led to Rote
learning which was not at all helpful in the long
run but now in the digital age students are more
focused on learning the material than just to get
marks as the lesson has become more practical
which help students to learn and understand them
and gain practical knowledge.
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• Students are able to develop real-world skills
  early in life as teachers are using different
  models of teaching like project-based learning or
  using Augmented Reality technology to teach
  students which give them the freedom to use their
  knowledge and can be as creative as they can and
  develop a plan to solve the problem by themselves
  without teacher help this kind of project
  and Ed-Tech facilities help students build skills
  like critical thinking, problem-solving and most
  importantly they become creative at an early age
  when they get this kind of experience at an early
  age.

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Students have become dependent on technology for
learning because new technology is helping
students learn in a way which no one has ever
imagine like gamification of learning, stories
coming to life or AR apps this technology is so
advanced and useful that when students learn
using these they able to engage with it and
understand it little better and it has seen that
students who learn using new technology tends to
perform better as they are able to grasp that
knowledge faster but in a fun way so students
have really depended on Ed-Tech for their
learning.
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It Encourages the student to do self-paced
learning as all the information is online so
students who arent able to understand the
teacher concept usually tend to leave behind but
in the Digital age, students dont have to worry
about that as all the lesson will be recorded in
an online education which they can see again to
clear all doubts and even then they face any
problem there is so much material on the internet
which can help them learn using a different
method but learning never stop in this digital
age.
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• Students are now comfortable with online
  education as before Technology boom students are
  a bit hesitant to study online as it was quite
  costly and there were not proper resources by
  which they can study online and it also wasnt
  considered as valuable it was considered a waste
  of time and money, classroom-based learning was
  the number one choice but after the technology
  boom, Online education has become so cheap and
  advanced that now classroom-based learning has
  become outdated parents are now insisting
  students take online education from the comfort
  of their home.

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The biggest impact of the digital age is on
primary school students as they were not able to
pay proper attention in a classroom-based
environment but when online education took over
and teachers changed the way of teaching and
started used new ed-tech to teach students the
learning became more engaging as students learn
the material in form of the game, 3d graphic or
even in form of a story in which the characters
of the story interact with the student thats why
students find it quiet interactive and engaging
this enhanced the learning process of students
which ultimately improves the performance of
students.