Teaching With Digital Technology

Abstract

   The COVID-19 pandemic created a world-wide responsiveness that led to change the present way of living situation. The condition of different areas turned upside down, various sectors that had a huge impact on economic sectors suffered a lot and a one massive obvious  change was seen in Educational sectors. In India educational institutes remain closed  since the halfway of March 2020 as a result of inevitable lockdown that upraised the life of the students, parents and teachers. To encounter such unavoidable calamity, the educational sectors started conducting the online classes. It appeared to be as a substantial enormous change for educational areas to switch over from traditional chalk and face to face talk classroom to a online virtual classroom. This unforeseen transformation in teaching/learning method eventually raised new challenges and opportunities for students, teachers as well as parents. For Higher education areas initially, this methodology poses many oppositions due to ignorance of technology in conducting/attending live classes by faculty and students and also insufficiency of early preparation or support from educational technological teams. But with the advancement in the digital technology, it develops effective and reflective practice in leading digital learning and to focus on understanding the potential use of technology for best impact in teaching and learning. A survey based-investigation to inspect the effectiveness of online teaching- learning methodology evolved still to be in favour of  traditional chalk in classroom methodology as still better than online sessions due to lack of facilities, technical tools and internet access are the paramount stumbling blocks for managing online sessions. The lessons learned about online teaching and learning in crucial period should not be neglected, but kept in mind to apply in other circumstances and to proceed along with  improving digital education system in upcoming times.

Keywords- Keywords: Educational Sectors, Online Learning, Digital learning, Internet access, Digital Literacy, Digital technology, Online sessions, Digital education system.