Digital technology and its role in education

Abstract

   Digital technologies are the technologies that are used to support teaching and learning such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, online resources, digital tools, systems devices, and resources. Digital tools can produce, reserve, and operate the data. It aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all. Digital technologies have emerged as an essential tool to achieve this goal.The use of information and communication technologies in education can play a crucial role in providing new and innovative forms of support to teachers, students, and the learning process more broadly. Beside its day to day use by the students in the school environment ; its safety and precautions to handle become serious task.The school must create a learning environment involving the safe and responsible use of digital technology. This is largely achieved by fostering a positive culture of digital technology use where challenges are understood to exist.  Moreover while learning about internet safety in school, students feel safer to speak with educators about things they see online that could potentially be harmful. When teachers are aware of dangerous activity online, they can possibly prevent tragic situations from happening. Open communication between students and teachers about online activity can keep students from harm. Common Sense Education offers a series of lesson plans to raise awareness about internet safety in the classroom. However, it’s important for schools not to depend upon students or teachers to report inappropriate online content and behaviour. Screen monitoring software can alert administrators to at-risk behaviour on school computers. It also alerts administrators to mentions of suicide or self-harm, allowing them to give vulnerable students the help they need.

.Keywords:- Resources, inclusive, face to face, screen monitoring, competency, collaboration, digitalisation, innovation,  activity based learning, safeguards, flipped learning, modernisation.