[Personal opinion] Education with the help of modern technology

I think it is no secret that the current level of education in our country is quite low. Problems arise not only from students who are not willing to learn, but also the teachers who do not want to teach, motivate the student something new. It turns out that the school / school / college / institute become a gathering place for entertainment not for the purpose of acquiring new knowledge, and sharing stories about how cool it was yesterday at the disco. And could it be anything else? Students with the students themselves would run for the next lesson or lecture if the training was conducted with the use of modern technology?

Status

The current level of development in the education sector is stuck somewhere in the late 80's - early 90's. Students dragged behind huge portfolios with dozens of tattered books, battered notebooks, a variety of multi-colored pens. In their paper diaries teacher put evaluation sheets which after successfully torn out, so as not to see the parents. And this is a good scenario. When bad - no one just does not go anywhere.

Fortunately, this happens everywhere. There are, for example, fee-paying schools, where students can use laptops during classes. However, everything is not so rosy as it might be. All entries are mostly limited to regular layout in Word and drawing a small plate in Excel. Few people think about the fact that such everyday things as a tablet and a smartphone can also help in training.

Gadget as a teaching tool

It is well known that in the App Store and Google Play are available a variety of educational applications. In the same iTunes U has a large variety of courses that can be completely free to download and start practicing. Developers are increasingly focusing on not only the children's interactive storybooks, but also more serious problems, such as solving mathematical formulas using PhotoMath.
But not only contribute to the solution of the tasks themselves programmers. Control of the students - as a necessary measure in the educational process. Such a problem is solved by an individual application, e.g., BeHere (No longer available in the RU App Store) - a kind of online journal attendance.

But one of the most important functions, of course, must comply appsWho will be not only an educational function, but also entertainment. First of all the student need to be interested in the subject. Interactive tasks can not only draw attention and challenge, but also a little to relieve the work of teachers who do not have to be treated with a test to each of the students.
Modern children's smartphone - quite an ordinary everyday object. Suppose this is not the last generation iPhone, but even budget "dialer" on Android is quite able to cope with such tasks. We are not talking about buying tablets and smartphones with the money schools, where there... Though I've seen computer classes standing with the iMac computers in them, but there they are not out of love for his disciples, but because of the money someone money. They were completely indifferent younger generation.

Control of the pupils, teachers and parents warning

If you go the conversation controlThen, without a doubt, Apple devices this can help better than other solutions on the market. No, I did not pull the ears, just the ecosystem created kupertinovtsy, well-behaved established, and will be a function of the Family Access in iOS 8 (as well as the system as a whole) brought it to a new level.

The parents appeared a tool with which you can easily find out where the child is in school or at home. The teacher will not spend time on the class roll call, if the office set iBeacon sensors and use applications such as the above described BeHere. The pupil is more difficult to justify to parents for evaluation if they will be displayed in the application - of which the sheets are not vydernesh.
Messengers or, at worst, the e-mail can be a good means of communication between the teacher and the parents. And FaceTime, or even Skype - to replace private meetings or gatherings. The current pace of life does not allow many parents to attend class meetings periodically. They are no less pressing questions about how to stay at a certain position, do not live up to the next such a large salary and something to please the child in a never-ending crisis, that seems to no longer be held never.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

But let us return to a more positive attitude, and imagine that it is possible to go further, not limited to one portable gadgets. For example, a virtual reality like the Oculus Rift or Rroject Morpheus will definitely be interested in almost any. With their help it was possible to study the planets and stars on astronomy, plant life - biology and anatomy, history, chemistry and other subjects. Who would not want to fly on a space ship among the stars or watch the jousting tournaments?

For a more simple things you can use the camera and a smartphone with an application of augmented reality. For example, the lessons of history to follow on the map the movement of troops on the battlefield or on the anatomy, one "not cutting", to study the structure of the body and its processes. I would argue that students interested in this would be much more than browsing the yellow pages taped textbooks.

Technology implementation

And now come down from heaven to earth and ask a simple question: whether someone will implement something like this in our schools, colleges and institutes? Whether someone is interested in how to make the learning process interesting and not a routine activity for the students? Who will finally give money to schools for the implementation of such programs? Apparently, no one. After all, much better than most of the funds allocated to hide in his pocket and throwing a bone in the form of "a new computer teacher "for people who are afraid of the computer itself and appeal to him not to" you ", and" You, sir. "

editorial opinion

And what do you think, is it worth to introduce in educational institutions of modern technology and to dig out from under the thick layer of dust the whole education system, or think that this book should be printed, not downloaded, even legally?