Last week, in ENG109 class, instructor introduced to us a useful online training website called Atomic Learning Tutorials. As a computer science major student, I have realized that the role of computer technology in education has been given a lot of importance in recent years. In my opinion, multimedia and internet have several positive effect in education.
Firstly, I mentioned that the multimedia can help teachers teach students. It can make teaching more sufficient and make class more interesting. For example, projector can transfer the picture from teacher’s screen to a larger public screen. It can let students watch the screen clearly because the characters on the public screen are as large as students can see. At that way, teachers do not need to write anything on the blackboard, therefore, they can save time in class and have chance to teach student more knowledge. Moreover, in recent years, teachers began to use PowerPoint in class. I think it is an effective way in teaching. Teachers maybe put some picture in the PowerPoint which related to courses, therefore, student will find this class is more interesting and have promotion to learn the knowledge.
Secondly, internet technology is also an effective tool in education. Such as the E-Learning website (Atomic Learning tutorials) I mentioned before, it offers a lot of high quality tutorial videos including many areas(subjects) online. As a student, we will no longer need to waste time to google search the tutorial when we need, but rather, we can unlimited to access the tutorial at home anytime. It is convenient and efficient.
All in all, the role of computer technology in education is significant nowadays.
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