Everyday we learn something new and we use gadgets to help us study. Even though I am already a teacher I still need gadget to help me learn, study and teach. Technology has played an important role in learning, nowadays people can but gadgets and they are now essential in our daily activity.
Below are gadgets that can help you study and learn. (This gadgets are common to us, however we are not aware that we can use it to study.
- Smartphone
Smartphones are commonly used to communicate, socialize, photography and calling. However, we tend to miss out that there are apps built in our smartphone that can help us study. Notepad, there are instances that we have to jot down notes when needed and specially if we forgot to bring something to right on. Recorder, can also be used to record discussion if the lesson is fast and you don't want to have a hassle writing or noting down what was discussed. Camera, nowadays camera is common in documenting and noting down what was written or shown. long notes can just be copied with camera app.
- Laptop
We know that their are laptops with the same price as smartphones. They have more functionality than smartphone as it can connect to printer, other devices and portable compared to desktop. As Microsoft Office played a role from word to power point presentation it can also help read notes and learn from online. There are websites that can help us study and learn new things. Since we don't need to learn more on it's Pro's there are Con's to this as we'll as it can be a distraction to learning too (check: https://blogmaester.blogspot.com/2017/09/technology-distraction-in-learning.html)
- Portable Hard Drive, Flash drive, Memory card Reader
Learning is never ending as files downloaded from learning and studying will never stop and files may fill up your memory. As years go buy we may buy new flash drive and hard drive but we want everything to be in just one storage device. (although we advice to have multiple storage as a backup file for your portable drive.) This would come in handy if you want to study without the aid of internet.
Internet however can be useful in storing files and you can access (https://drive.google.com) to save files online so you can read online even if your using some else's computer.
- Books
You may not consider this as technology but books were created longer than computers and this has been helpful as books were used by everyone to expand their learning. Although compared to computer, books that you want may be hard to find compared to just searching online this has a lot of advantages since you don't need a battery to read it, can be portable and easy to navigate. This is always a reliable source of information and comes handy if there's no electricity and internet.
So far this are the current tools/gadgets I use. These are the important things that I need but I don't want to rely on this as we all know someday it would be better to just rely on our mental capacity to learn without these except the book.
What other gadget do you have in mind?