With the continuous debates over the education system and the employed methodology of delivering the knowledge, the world is changing for good. And of course, the technology has its part to play in this evolution.
In the world, where everything is backed up by technological advancements, how can a whole domain that has given birth to the technology be void of its benefits? In other words, the education sector is also benefiting from its creation, modern technology. The modes of delivery, the way information is processed, and the way all the knowledge is being stored to maintain a huge database is definitely something to be praised about.
From absolute to obsolete technologies, there have been various attempts to modify the education industry. But the most recent ones are true to be the most stunning ones amongst all.
Equipment
There's something for every branch and domain of education. For science, for commerce, for arts, and even for the specialized educators, there's a plethora of devices and equipment available. For example, there are digital spectrometers to study the effects and concepts of light and color.
From basic lab equipment to the complex ones, technology has made it pretty clear that nothing comes in the way of knowledge. You can easily measure and store data, from any test or observation you wish to. The calipers, the weigh scale, the multimeter, and much more is now easily available for institutional as well as industrial applications.
Since we are concerned with just the academic applications, the list of equipment is pretty long. It includes tensile projectors, ballistic equipment, strobe and stroboscope, tesla meter, gyroscope, etc.
Software
Do you also hate the amount of time it takes to compile the data and then compute all the possible outcomes? Well, there is specific software available for you to benefit from. Paul Stokstad explains that PASCO scientific learning is all about giving educators around the world novel and unconventional ways to teach science. And with the help of software, the task of educating is simplified to a great extent, as well as that of learning.
There is software for computation, for compilation, and for interpretation of the data. Or you can choose a combined software to take care of all these tasks in one place. Nevertheless, this software is turning around the education medium. Especially, the data analysis.
Data Loggers
If you spend hours in the laboratory and miss out on the other tasks because you have to log the data for your experiment, here's good news for you. There are special pieces of equipment available now, that can keep track of all your data.
You can program your equipment to log in the observation data in a predefined matrix for as long as the experiment goes on. The data loggers are pretty good at monitoring and recording the data. The pros are not just limited to that, you can store multiple formats and information simultaneously without losing track of any.
Sensors
The nineteenth century witnessed the most remarkable innovations and discoveries of all time. With the evolution of time and technology, the innovations quadrupled, owing to the ease of performing experiments.
Now that we are discussing the old times, it is mandatory to discuss the ways employed in those times. Earlier the apparatus and equipment for experiments were very complex and heavy. The setup alone would require hours of installation.
Thanks to modern technology, what used to be large equipment once, has now been reshaped to micro size. There's a plethora of sensors, based on varying technologies- photo, conductance, impedance, capacitor, resistor, etc. which are now being universally employed in institutional as well as industrial experiments.
e-Library
As the amount of information and data is increasing exponentially every day, it calls for a large library to store it all. It is devastating to even imagine the amount of paper and the space required for all the storage. But then again, we modern humans don't have to worry about anything.
With the help of advanced information and technology, millions of terabytes of data can now be stored in a device smaller than a laptop. There is no surprise that universities and schools are slowly adapting e-library over the conventional paper library.
In fact, the e-library has made it easier to store and organize all the information in one place. Moreover, the information is, as easily as it is stored and organized, easily accessible over multiple platforms without glitches.
The future holds much more surprises and innovations for the education sector. Hopefully, the technology would keep on inspiring and updating the way knowledge is distributed.
