How Digital Age is Affecting Students
                     How Digital Age is Affecting 
Students
We are living in a Digital age where 
advanced technology has made the life of 
humans so easy as well as effective and 
mostly everything depends on it like we 
can get any information about the world 
with just the click of a button or we can 
connect with multiple people at once with 
the help of web conferencing. The only 
sector that benefited from new technology 
was the educational sector as the growth 
in educational technology has completely 
changed the learning process of the 
students as many schools like Boarding 
schools especially the 
boarding schools in India has introduced a 
new way of teaching using Ed-Tech that 
made the learning engaging fun and more 
interactive.
Schools used to care about marks 
which made students learn just to 
pass the test or get good marks 
without caring about understanding 
the material and gain knowledge 
which led to Rote learning which was 
not at all helpful in the long run but 
now in the digital age students are 
more focused on learning the 
material than just to get marks as the 
lesson has become more practical 
which help students to learn and 
understand them and gain practical 
knowledge.
•Students are able to develop real-
world skills early in life as teachers 
are using different models of 
teaching like project-based learning 
or using Augmented Reality 
technology to teach students which 
give them the freedom to use their 
knowledge and can be as creative 
as they can and develop a plan to 
solve the problem by themselves 
without teacher help this kind of 
project and Ed-Tech facilities help 
students build skills like critical 
thinking, problem-solving and most 
importantly they become creative at 
an early age when they get this kind 
of experience at an early age.
Students have become dependent on technology 
for learning because new technology is helping 
students learn in a way which no one has ever 
imagine like gamification of learning, stories coming 
to life or AR apps this technology is so advanced 
and useful that when students learn using these 
they able to engage with it and understand it little 
better and it has seen that students who learn using 
new technology tends to perform better as they are 
able to grasp that knowledge faster but in a fun way 
so students have really depended on Ed-Tech for 
their learning.
It Encourages the student to do self-
paced learning as all the information is 
online so students who aren’t able to 
understand the teacher concept usually 
tend to leave behind but in the Digital age, 
students don’t have to worry about that as 
all the lesson will be recorded in an online 
education which they can see again to 
clear all doubts and even then they face 
any problem there is so much material on 
the internet which can help them learn 
using a different method but learning 
never stop in this digital age.
•Students are now comfortable with online education 
as before Technology boom students are a bit hesitant 
to study online as it was quite costly and there were not 
proper resources by which they can study online and it 
also wasn’t considered as valuable it was considered a 
waste of time and money, classroom-based learning 
was the number one choice but after the technology 
boom, Online education has become so cheap and 
advanced that now classroom-based learning has 
become outdated parents are now insisting students 
take online education from the comfort of their home.
The biggest impact of the digital age is on 
primary school students as they were not able to 
pay proper attention in a classroom-based 
environment but when online education took 
over and teachers changed the way of teaching 
and started used new ed-tech to teach students 
the learning became more engaging as students 
learn the material in form of the game, 3d 
graphic or even in form of a story in which the 
characters of the story interact with the student 
that’s why students find it quiet interactive and 
engaging this enhanced the learning process of 
students which ultimately improves the 
performance of students.