Digital Education Changes the Face of Schooling for Many

The famed human-rights activist, Martin Luther King Junior, once said that the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. It has always been stressed upon that memorizing facts and figures isn’t education as it neither quenches the inquisitiveness of pupils nor builds the base for intelligence and character development. 

Education in Sri Lanka has been digitized and revamped using technologies. Digital classrooms have come to the rescue of thousands of students who are no longer being pressurized into rote learning and educators who can now draw a distinctive line between memorizing and educating. These digital classroom solutions not only make the arduous task simpler for teachers but even students learn to harbor and hone their imaginative skills.

Education of Sri Lanka has had a glorious past and the country has a literacy rate of 98.1%, highest in South-Asia. The great step towards digitizing involves relieving the students from the burden which bounds to get developed overtime because of numerous subjects, assignments and tests. Through digitization, students get to learn through attractive graphics and can readily submit their assignments through cloud computing. This efficient way of submission is also being accepted open-heartedly by educators as they can easily get back to the students and can provide them with immediate corrections and feed backs.

With the usage of educational apps, one can ensure that students are not only learning in a new way but are also advancing in times of technology. Traditional chiding and forcing students to rote learn the entire syllabus is a passé and these applications aim to make the process of passing information more interactive and their primary motive is to instill a feeling of inquisitiveness which is often killed by mundane books and morose teaching methods.

Online education in Sri Lanka has been welcomed with open-arms by educators, students and even by parents. This concept proves that education can stretch beyond boundaries and is no longer curbed and captivated in classrooms. The process of digitization has helped teacher to understand the doubts of students in a better way and even explaining complex processes, mathematical problems or any other subject has become simpler. Through these technologies, students can visualize the various scientific experiments, mathematical problems, geography etc and that helps them to understand in a more efficient way. Clueless reading and rote learning is ineffective if the doubts of students haven’t been clarified in the initial stage and digital education ensures that students understand the concepts thoroughly.