Technology in education: a fundamental pillar of student growth.

One taco dinner with a friend who works at a college, we were discussing about the whole pandemic situation and how it turned out to be a driver of technology. Certainly, external situations could be strong drivers of change, and educational technology was not left behind. As we kept discussing during dinner, she told me her experience about the youngsters having plenty experience creating Tik Toks, Snapchats, and Instastories, but when it come out to educational technology, they were behind. So, does the coming generations are really being digital native. Knowing the social media platforms is for sure not a certificate that people actually know how to use technology. As technology keeps improving, and it becomes the major collaboration and working tool for businesses, it should also be properly taught at schools. The current discussion if universities are actually properly teaching what businesses are requiring shows that probably universities should adopt the use of business technologies. In my experience, the main and most common software that was used was Office. At university, we all have used Word, PowerPoint and Excel. But certainly, there are businesses that require advanced Excel skills that actually students don’t know. If we start going further on more advanced systems such as ERPs, CRMs, POS, and more management software, then this ones are mainly only experienced when working at a company. And in developer languages, then probably we don’t have to talk about Python, R, PHP and other programming languages that will turn out more difficult for non techies. So, which technology should be taught at least in schools? Certainly, I am in favor that universities should stop having too much theory, and start developing more tech skills in any kind of career. At least the time invested during college or university, should not be spent to learn while already having a job or a business. Technology in education is more than just file sharing softwares, it should build up collaboration between peers. Read more on: Technology in Education.