Using Technology to Enhance the Teaching Learning Process

Vol.1 No.4

Year: 2006

Issue: Mar-May

Title  : Using Technology to Enhance the Teaching Learning Process 

Author Name  : Preeti Jaiswal 

Synopsis  : 

Through this article, an attempt is made to highlight some ways on how teachers can integrate technology into their teaching repertoire to enhance the teaching learning process to make it both an enjoyable and enriching experience. Technology has several advantages: it is being used as a powerful tool by many teachers for making lesson plans and organizing learning activities, for enhancing class-room presentations by employing CD- ROMs and multimedia, assisting in skill development through practice, the test generators and electronic grade books are very resourceful in evaluating student performance, it is particularly favorable with problem based learning, it enhances cooperative interaction among students, it serves very strongly as a motivational and management tool and the assistive technologies are extremely beneficial to students with special needs. It is hoped that the guidelines outlined in this article can provide some assistance to teachers attempting to optimally combine their goals, their students' needs and the power of the Technology-enhanced class-room.