According
to Drijvers (2012), the only tablet is not the key to success but how the tablet or
digital tool is designed, the ability of the teacher or the lecturer to deliver
the lesson and educational context are the main reason to the success of the
student. No device will have any effect on its own unless there is someone
putting an effort to use it correctly. Providing a tablet inside the class will
not have any positive impact as a tablet cannot do any wonders.
Most important
thing to consider about students success or to achieve the high result the student,
there has to be someone giving proper guidance to the students what and how to
use. Tablets are designed to have lots of applications which will make teaching
and learning more interesting and useful. According to some teachers, the most
difficult part of teaching is catering the lesson to individual students. There
are some students who need special attention inside the class. In our
traditional classroom settings, it does not allow us to concentrate on
individual students need and to help them to learn based on their individual
needs. It might be because a single teacher has to deal with 29 to 30 students
in a single period, as a result, the teacher could not get any time to help the
students. Some students find it difficult to keep up with others so the teacher
needs to give special attention to them. Introduction to the tablets, all these
needs will be fulfilled as most of the computer applications can be made or
personalized by keeping individual needs (Sarama
and Clements 2009; Trigueros, Lozano, and Sandoval 2014).
There are special
applications which can be used to make the weak students stay at the same
level as with others. This way the teacher or the instructor does not have to
spend all of his or her time in explaining the concept but they can design
their lesson in a way which all the students can participate and the
indicators to be successfully achieved. This result can be achieved if the
teacher is in well aware of how to use the tablets and how to cater the
application to individual student needs. Teachers need to be well trained and
have to know how to design applications for their class. With the awareness of
teachers and the ability to use it in the classroom instructions, positive
learning is achieved (Björklund 2014). According to Jeong Kim et al (2016),
significantly higher creativity has been shown with the students who used
tablets in their class compared with the students who did not use tablets. This
is because most tablet applications can offer instant feedback to the students
and tell the students that they are in the right track or not, the student’s works
can be saved automatically so that students and teachers have not to worry that
the data or the work of the student is lost (Palmér,
2015).
