Review - 4

Educational Technology Software

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Educational software is computer software, the primary purpose of which is teaching or self-learning. Educational software is essential in any learning environment to allow teachers and students maximize the power of the computer. There are hundreds of educational software titles available on the market but not all are suitable for use in schools. it provides teachers and students with the tools to create their own content.

ETS assists teachers in creating their own instructional software. Also by using Multimedia authoring systems one can create a range of multimedia software from simple to sophisticated. Teachers can make reviews, tutorials, and lessons that can be used as stand-alone software. Web authoring systems help teachers create  multimedia software that can be used on a web site. Some software that lets you create, capture, and/or manipulate electronic images. Graphics software enables you to include images beyond those included in the clipart libraries of many programs.

 Paint Software creates and manipulates digital pictures. It Includes tools such as pens and brushes to mimic real-world artist’s tools. Problem Solving Software helps students acquire and practice problem solving which may be content-oriented or content-neutral and thus offers opportunities to learn by doing, test hypotheses, discover strategies to solve problems.

One of the most commonly used software used by both teachers and students is Power point Presentation. It makes it easier for the teachers to explain a topic rather than writing on the board which is not efficient for a class of good strength. The software’s can be downloaded on mobile or PC’s and used for learning or teaching and makes education more efficient.

Here the main factor of concern lies in the fact that using all this software’s the students become more used to using technologies. They advance in technical skills but at the same time we need to have a very well set thought that amidst all this, books should not be discarded. This I would rate 4 out of 5 .

but the using of books more for education and these software’s for presentation would be the best way to go by it .technological advancements always proves to an awesome way to interact with the crowd all thought. we even come to know that through this, students learn better as visual aids are the best, they get the sense of organizing better way and thus becomes more sophisticated in all their ways.

The good: it helps the teachers to assign the students with specific tasks and evaluate the students on the bases of these tasks. Help in maximizing the use of the computer in education.

The bad:  there are a lot of such Educational Software tools hence there is no proper standard foe all universities to follow.

The bottom line: they are tools that help in making the education process easy. They can be web based or non-web based. They are designed to make the overall studying and teaching process easier.

Rating: 4/5 (very good)

Reference:

Educational software (n.d) Retrieved from Wikipedia on 24^th Nov 2014.