Tech in Education

Over 80% of students said that they were negatively impacted by Covid within their educational performance and mental health. With the isolated negative impacts of mental health, students are forced to play catch up in educational systems that lack resources. This resulted in a massive digital divide, where" “society blames students that don’t meet the technological requirements to keep up with Covid educational models”, says Professor and Doctorate Michael Smith. Yet 2/3rd of school districts say that they will continue online modules.

The digital divide

So where does this leave society with technological advances in the classroom? The truth in education is that it does work. Most of education is top down, higher educational models reflect what the school system looks like. The question I pose from this research to society is…

Can our school system keep up with technological advances?

Where do we go from here? Out of 141 methods of educational models, these 6 methods have been trending in the post covid society.

Technology and Practices

Out of 141 practices, these top 6 were excersized the most in 2021

Remember when there was the debate on implementing devices into the class? The stigma on technology as a distraction?

That was yesterdays problem.

Now there is an influx of technological advances in class. The model that most post covid educators are going with is…

“Do more with less”

The importance of thoughtful design and flexible course models for higher education is vital. In society we face a huge issue in this meaningless void of screens and e-learning…

Academic research is far less collaborative and community based.

Within my research I have been seeing this as a trend; We are bombarded with options, and have issues excersizing choice. We have lost our voice in this society of digital screens. We forgot how to communicate…how to do.

“Theres no substitute for natural learning by doing”

— Roger C.Schank

Rodger writes in 2002, as e-learning was just cracking the web, about the importance of instructional design for online modules. Even 20 years later after a pandemic, we face the same human need, to learn by doing. Again, learning methods have changed, but the underlying factor is still the same.

So what needs to change?

Growth. There needs to be faculty development to adjust to technological and innovative advancements.

Constraint. We need to do more with less. commit to the basis of Sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Let that be your mantra. It will be both refreshing and enlightening for the classroom. Stop taking everything so damn personally as an instructor. These are people not robots.

Collapse. There should be a sliding scale or state funding to provide equitable change to amend the digital divide. Funding to public higher education institutions have dried up. It’s drier than the Sahara dessert. I speak as a student in a public college.

“Remote teaching and learning has slid comfortably into mediocrity, driven by values of efficiency and lacking critical infrastructure and faculty development resources” (Horizon, 5).

Transformation. For the love of god, Stop treating college as a business. The practice of “anyone anywhere” learning is to open the market for colleges. It doesn’t benefit the quality of learning.

“Mental health improves as institutions implement more humanized and relational forms of learning”.