siliconindia | | March 20188VIEW POINTThe pen is mightier than the sword, we've been told. But we are living at a time when the pen must lay down its arms and give way to the apogee of power and strength: technology. Its strength is in transformation; but not just in transforming our experience, its power lies in creating new experiences, wonders, and avenues never before heard of. The pen can indeed describe to you in detail and imagery a distant star and evoke the dormant imaginative curiosities latent in each of us. But the Hub-ble Telescope can literally throw you in the midst of the vast, panoramic vistas of space, with its billions of stars and solar systems, millions of light years apart, and galax-ies after galaxies of luminous light ­ all-enveloping and staggering to both the mind and the eye. What the pen can point to, technology can place you in the very midst of. This transformative power of technology is finding its place in the world of education and introducing in it a seismic change. The great physicist Freeman Dyson called technology `the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences'. The paradigm shift this has inaugurated in the world and now, progressively, in India is jettisoning the traditional tools used for the acquisition and distribu-tion of knowledge and education. Throughout history the rise of technology has been shaping the way learning is experienced by the seekers of knowledge. From the use of papyrus and reed pens we have come a long way in the rise of our technical and scientific skill, to be able to produce chalks from calcium carbonate. Chalks, black-boards and writing slates have been reported to have been By Dr. Sarika Lidoria, Vice President, ITM Group of InstitutionsITM Group of Institutions is a multidisciplinary education group based in Mumbai with expertise spanning the sciences, engineering, management, fine arts, social sciences, arts, and nursing.TRENDS IN 2018 FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION SECTOR
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