INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO THE CLASSROOM

It is a very common site to see students sleeping in class and being totally absent minded. The teacher will spend hours talking in front of them and will actually achieve no teaching at all. The question is why is this so? Why do students nowadays look so detached to what they are learning in classrooms? The answer is quite simple. It’s because they aren't being engaged. The teaching is more theoretical than practical and this makes the student lose focus of the importance of what he/she is being taught. Children in the 21^st century spend more hours using technology such as computers, i Pods and television than they do reading books.

A video Technology will enable teachers to achieve better performance from their students by embracing technology in the classroom. Most students understand better when a practical approach is used in teaching making it more meaningful and fun (Edutopia Staff, 2008) . An example of how technology is being utilized in classrooms is using a tool called Jing which is a screen casting tool that is used for recording screen casts in a technique used in education called flipping the classroom where teachers can record information of what they want the students to learn. 

Countries that have embraced the idea of utilizing technology in their classrooms are portraying much better performance in education and development compared to countries that still suffer from techno phobia in the education sector. By integrating technology in classrooms, students will be taught to think, create, analyze, evaluate and apply, by utilizing tools such as the internet, they will be practical in whatever, whenever and wherever they want. This will truly define them as digital learners.