Technological Influence on Student Communication and Learning

It goes without saying that technologies have already affected people’s lives on a daily basis, however, students are impacted to the greatest extent as modern education becomes more and more digitalized. Classroom walls have stopped being barriers as technological progress opens new ways for collaborative work, international communication, and advanced learning. On the one hand, the immediacy of information and access to multiple educational resources may contribute to the person’s knowledge, self-esteem, motivation, and self-development. Students have received an opportunity how to display, collect, generate, and manipulate information. On the other hand, the influence of laptops, smartphones, communication tools, educational applications, and social networks on young people’s essential skills, learning abilities, creativity, and intelligence needs to be thoroughly investigated. Nevertheless, it is necessary to consider the fact that technology has affected the way students communicate, the way they access information, and how they study.