21th Century Learning

The contribution of the advancement in technology to education is a fact. We are globalizing as we are digitalizing. Access to the information is now much easier thanks to search engines such as Google. At the same time, blogs and social media applications allowed communication between people who are far from each other thus talking and sharing knowledge became very easy and practical.

The common usage of technology in language learning; made the permanence of the learned knowledge possible by attracting the student with visual and auditory materials. Thanks to online education, which is one of the biggest benefit of 21st-century education, the desired language can be learned and reinforced by this method from foreign teachers. As searching and thinking critically are encouraged, competition increases, so qualified people are raised for the future. At the same time, many new jobs have emerged.

To sum up, the 21st century and technology are intertwined with each other, and we strongly feel this bond in education. However, it is us teachers' duty to get the maximum efficiency from these innovations and to give them to our students.