Technology & Innovation Technology: A Boon for Students
By Sonam Thakur
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Tech-savvy world- airplanes, metro trains, smart televisions, mobile phones, and many more gadgets. You just have to think of something and that work starts its journey on technology. And topping on the ice is the present situation that throttles ONLINE LEARNING & EDUCATION. Can think of a more comfortable world? Think, think, think and all you will hear from within is NO! this time is the best we all are experiencing, especially children. No wait time, no time lag between thought and information, minimal dependency on teachers and guardians/elders; seems the most comfortable time for students. Are we utilizing all this? Mostly yes, sometimes no, and that no comes with beautiful explanations. That we will focus
on later.

Firstly, let us think of the time when a curious question arises in a child’s mind and he/she went to the nearest encyclopedia available- elder members of the family. If their answer suffices the child’s mind, well and good, else the next option having a wait time till the next morning when he/she could meet friends and teachers at school. Teachers, considered the source of knowledge can’t be presented any query right away from the student. The step goes like this generally-discussion with friends- mind-boggling answers from all friends -hotter discussion as to if that is the sure answer-suggestion from one adviser student- let’s put the question to the teachers in this way- thinking time for all friends- finally the perfect question gets framed in a perfect way. The teacher gets the question at some rightly timed time-frame and then the answer comes in a subtly explained manner. Now, the students get mental relaxation. So, just calculate the amount of time and effort it took for the students to reach one answer from one question. The process is obviously so fun-filled that you remember it for a lifetime even if any query hits your mind just once. That’s Beautiful!

Now, let us think of today's time. An impossibly difficult question arises in a child’s mind and he/she started the search for the nearest encyclopedia available- any smartphone present in the home, asks the question to the phone over the internet, waits hardly for a few seconds, and EUREKA! The answer is found. Now, calculate the time and effort it took for the student to reach from one question to its answer. The process is obviously so quick that you can fire questions with speed of thought and get answers at the same speed. This leverages students to keep the curiosity of their minds active all the time and opens a doorway to immense opportunities to feed a student’s mind. That’s Technology!

Technology & Innovation cuts the extra effort that students have to put for long hours to complete any task so that they can reach the ladder to knowledge as soon as possible. Students have to remember this one thing always and never try to misuse the Aladdin’s lamp that they have in their hands because the genie may either be real or deceptive-try to choose real.

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