Everyone already knows that digitalization is a path with no return.

Undoubtedly, the pandemic accelerated the technological transformation process. Since then, new tools have become more present than ever and have directly impacted our relationships of consumption, communication, and even learning.

It is a fact that technological tools influenced education and acted as facilitators to continue the student's learning process at the moment schools interrupted their in-person activities. If until recently digital resources were seen as favorable to distraction, nowadays, it is almost impossible to keep learning aloof from digital trends.

With social distancing, learning moments extended beyond the school environment and began to accompany students in all scenarios of their lives on tablets, computers, and smartphones. Thinking about this, the CodeBlog team has listed 5 digital trends that contribute to the educational sphere.

Stay with us and check them out:

1. Gamification

Also known as "Ludification", gamification is a tool that involves some game techniques in routine activities to boost interest, engage students, and optimize classroom results.

For this purpose, elements such as rankings, challenges, missions, and tasks present in games are adopted to stimulate healthy competitiveness.

2. Accessibility Software

One of the major challenges faced by educational institutions is to offer services that ensure inclusion and knowledge for students with special needs. Although essential, it is still rare to find sign language interpreters in schools, technical courses, or universities, for example. To alleviate this issue, several accessibility softwares have emerged, such as screen readers, sign language dictionaries, voice recognition programs, and audiobook editors.

3. Reading tools

The so-called reading tools include websites, apps, and devices that offer users a large amount of digital texts and allow frequent tracking of their progress.

In this context, some educational institutions have partnerships with specialized companies and provide this experience for entire classes.

On the other hand, students can also purchase an individual subscription and access countless book titles for download, as is the case with Kindle Unlimited.

The great benefit of reading platforms is that they provide the possibility to read whatever you want, anywhere, without the need to carry physical books.

4. Virtual Reality

Increasingly present in society's daily life, virtual reality is also a way to boost learning. This is because, when applied in a creative and relevant way in classrooms, through 3D and 360° vision glasses, it enables first-person experiences and interaction with virtual objects within the learning curriculum and the textbook materials used.

The main purpose of these tools is that the sensation of time and space, established in the virtual environment, helps students in performing their tasks.

5. Distance learning (DL)

Finally, considered one of the most common practices among those mentioned in this article, distance learning consists of a modality of courses aimed at Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees.

Thus, classes are held online, usually through an academic portal that offers classroom material in the format of video lessons and text content. The format is very convenient for those who have a busy schedule or cannot travel daily to an educational institution.

Although the DL modality is not yet authorized for Primary and Secondary school education in Brazil (since all children and teenagers are required to attend the school environment), with the worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic in the national territory, several measures were flexibilized so that students could continue their classes with the help of remote support tools and the adoption of new methodologies based on digital technologies.

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