Importance And Benefits Of Computer Education
Advanced technology is currently ruling all over the world. It has found its way in the classroom too, in the form of projectors, television, laptop, computer, etc. Teaching the basic skills to students operating a computer is vital to ensure they have the proper knowledge & skills for their career in the future. A computer has become now very common, unlike pen & paper.
Modern technology
A computer has helped us in various ways right from applications of medicines, creating presentations, making bills, building the infrastructure of properties using proper applications, delivering lectures, notes, etc. It gives them the confidence to speak on various topics across the world by giving detailed information on all topics.
Modernizing Education system
Right from logging into websites to collecting proper data, it helps the students to understand the subject more precisely. Students now don’t need to keep themselves only to the textual knowledge but now with the help of technology can explore new things every day. They don’t need to carry heavy textbooks to schools rather they can check their emails. It also helps every teacher to plan the schedule to teach the students in more interactive ways. It helps the students to improve their vocabulary, grammatical skills, & use of jargon, etc. It helps in the career development of a kid.
How it impacts Students performance
Research says students who use computers achieve higher grades than students learning in the traditional method. It says that when students use computers for their studies it helps to make their studies more interactive with the help of videos due to which they engage more with the subject & lessons. It helps them with new knowledge & skills towards their work.
Learning Job skills
Today’s era focuses on being more digital. Everywhere use of computers, laptops are common. Students who do not know how to use the technology get anxious & feel unconfident. All kind of industry uses computers to manage their work more efficiently. Teaching students the use of computers opens a wide range of career options to them. Many class students are taught to create presentations, Word, Excel, datasheets, programming languages, etc.
Computers in teaching & learning process
Being actively used among schools, colleges, universities computers aid the learning process of the students. It helps teachers to make audio-visuals of the subjects to prepare their schedule in advance. For this, they use Microsoft PowerPoint to make the electronic presentations of the lectures. These ppts can be later delivered to students on projectors which saves the time & efforts of the teachers & students also enjoy to learn in innovative ways.
Benefits of Computer education
- It allows students to learn more about the subject, topic & be innovative just with a single click.
- It helps to save time & efforts of the students as well as teachers.
- It enhances creativity & thinking skills,
- It helps with communication & solves doubts on a real-time basis.
- Proves beneficial for career aspiration.
Use of Computer in education
Stores Huge Data & information
It stores data & information in an organized way. Students & teachers can find data about all their subjects, find answers to their questions, download a lot of educational data, notes, brochures, presentations, lectures with the use of computers.
Videoconferencing
Before the internet students had access to all kinds of lectures, politician meetings, authors, motivational speaker conferences in halls but the booming technology like videoconferencing has helped to remove the barriers like traveling, reduced stress, & increased student participation. With this feature of videoconferencing, students can now set up their schedule with teachers, professionals & learn. Along with this, they can also meet their peers in any country just by sitting their place & connect everywhere.
Online Education
Before this pandemic, online education wasn’t required much, but because of crises everywhere, students are now able to continue with their academics because of the internet & computers. Now everyone can attend lectures online & score good grades by sitting their home & comfortable attending the lectures. Even before this, online education helped non-traditional students like working adults or parents from accredited online schools despite their busy schedules.
Parents can track their ward’s progress
A computer has helped all the parents to know about their kid’s progress in the school on an everyday basis. Parents can check the kid’s co-curricular activities, report cards, attendance, regular test cards, etc just by logging on to the school’s website.
Online resources
When a student doesn’t have information about any topic which they have in their lessons or want to gain depth knowledge of the subject they can find innumerable online resources be it science, politics, business management, sociology or any other topic. It has the most recent & updated information all across the web.
Hence, the above points give a brief about the importance of computer education in a student’s life. Computer not only helps students in their education but also prepares them for their future challenges & helps to make them stand out of the competition by using it positively.
Vande Mataram Foundation encourages & motivates the kids to gain more computer education by helping them to come with flying colors. It supports the students by conducting various seminars of famous personalities online which will help them in their academics. It also conducts computer classes every twice a week for the students for better understanding & knowledge of the subject. VMF wants a better future for their kids with the help of booming technology.