The Role of Digital Technology in Education
By Min Thway Htut
Nowadays, technology plays an extremely important role in our daily lives, starting from our everyday stuff to the control system of nuclear weapons. Subsequently, it is making our living standards better, easier, and more complex at the same time. That is why there is no need to say that digital technology has the same significant impact on education, the process that is fundamental to the growth and development of a country.

To explain it in detail, thanks to digital technology, today’s classrooms and the way education is offered have become completely different from the traditional ones. Instead of blackboards, projectors can be seen in the classrooms while high-technology gadgets such as laptops and tablets replace the traditional ones such as books and pens. There are changes and advancements not only in that type of physical materials but also in seeking information as well.

To give an example, in many cases, in pursuit of information, it is no longer necessary to go to the library in person and read dozens of books. All we need to do is just to click our keyboards or phone screens and google everything we would like to explore which means that information is more easily accessible compared to the earlier times. Another transparent example is that the recent COVID-19 Pandemic has further institutionalized the applications of digital technologies in education.