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    Teaching in the Digital Era

    "In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn." �? Phil Collins

    Student- Teacher, what is the capital of Kenya?

    Assuming you are the teacher and you also don't know the answer. You borrow time from students and what will you do? Do you want to remove a world map and discover the administrative centre or Google it? I am certain most will pick the latter to find an answer. Isn't it? So will our students.

    In this advanced hi-tech world, teachers need to updates themselves with constantly evolving modern expertise. They have to learn and re-learn the apparatus to maintain with the rapidly changing technological world. Alongside theoretical and practical acquaintances, technological knowledge also plays a pivotal role in enhancing their quality of teaching. The amount, qualifications, and expertise can only just help them to accomplish initial success but to achieve the long run they can not thrive on the knowledge they acquired at the start of their career. Actually, at times technological familiarities contribute more to their success than other things and help them to gain a competitive edge over others. Therefore, the challenges teachers face is a lot more than before. Tutors need to prepare their students for future opportunities. Yes, for opportunities that may not exist in present. For any teacher, avant-garde knowledge and a proper framework are instrumental to foster out-of-box thinking, for keeping pace to overcome technical challenges, to become a proactive constant learner and maximize student satisfaction. Digital age trainers face constant issues like how to encourage a technologically friendly classroom environment to facilitate students' involvement and deliver a high quality of experience in teaching.

    Generation Zers are digital natives (yes, whether we like it or not). Unlike other generations, they're grown/ growing in an epoch when technologies like smart phones, social media, teleconferences, artificial intelligence, and instant accessibility to any information already exist. In the new era, innovative educational tools like artificial intelligence, digital reader tablets, gamification, 3D printing, cloud technology, mobile technology, video conferencing, and smartboards are preferred teaching assist in creating an active learning environment.

    THE WEB allows easy option of information with minute details, explanations, examples, pictures, videos, latest news, up-gradations, knowledge, and skills. In a connected world teachers can join communities of experts, collaborate with other teachers/students/ experts, share their expertise and provide solutions/answers to their students, even other students who need help by providing practical and theoretical advice, useful aids or resources. The added benefits of digitalization will be the availability of opportunities for each and every student to understand at their desired time, place and pace. Learning becomes more flexible, personal and accessible to interested students. Digitalization facilitates in catering needs of individual students e.g.:- online courses on digital marketing, stress management, photography, product management, os's, personal finance, etc in assorted classes. There is nothing perfect nor is technology, even it has its advantages and disadvantages. One-on-one learning is time-consuming and expensive it can also damage social interactions collectively, face-to-face conversation/interactions and spirit of teamwork.

    An excellent teacher manages both the worlds when you are flexible and adapting to new trends. Here's how some technologies could be adopted by teachers and institutions to improve students engagement-

    Word processing applications to write notes, add tables, charts, pictures, footnotes, check spellings and grammatical errors and save notes for future references.

    Instead of writing and explaining notes on the boards, teachers through the use of Overhead Projectors could make PowerPoint presentations, show short films, interactive videos and even add audios, sound effects, and images.

    Video conferencing enables teachers with hi-def live streaming allowing teacher-student interactions and knowledge and information sharing. In addition, it helps in organizing virtual trips which otherwise could not have been easy for students to see.

    Teachers can use E-Learning on digital tablets that permit them to answer their learner's queries, exchange videos, texts, information, presentations, quizzes beyond your school hours.

    Web-based learning or Online Learning offers convenience and flexibility to students and guarantees the availability of resources from anywhere and anytime.

    Going to maximize enjoyment, motivation, and engagement among student many instructors use Gamification of learning being an educational approach. Gamification is really a process for integrating game mechanism to make non-games more enjoyment like adding gambling can encourage students to achieve faster results in activities which are usually considered boring.

    Electronic Whiteboards are interactive whiteboards connected to the computer. It works together with a projector and the boards are touch screens. It offers the teachers to talk about screen, text audio, and video files. Students may also record full lectures and use them for future references. It allows integration of other technologies like microphones, cameras, the Smart notebook app, etc.

    Artificial Intelligence AI systems like robots can help to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each apprentice and allows them to decide the learning pace, the curriculum, the proper execution of education and also the instructors. It saves educators time given that they can delegate repetitive monotonous tasks like checking assignments.

    Cloud technology provides an opportunity for teachers to deliver face-to-face instruction in a virtual environment. The teacher can upload their lessons, marks, notes and slides on cloud application that may be accessed anytime by their learners.

    3D Printing in education allows students to experience the physical world where they can see, feel, touch and study actual creations as the real-world equivalent. Here students are no longer a passive consumer of information but an active, betrothed and occupied apprentice having practical hands-on-approach.

    Teachers and educational institutions should concentrate on digitalization to create their and their students live better by facilitating leaning an augmenting student's participation through apposite use of technological processes and resources.