Boosting Education Through Mobile Technology in India - Study with Reference to Generation Z

 
ABSTRACT 
Twenty-first century recognize the younger generation as Gen Z that is mobile first generation 
who livein the virtual world in par with reality through extensive usage of smartphones & related 
gadgets. The usage of Mobile Technology  in  the education sector has become  the need of  the 
day. Students have started relying on mobiles for  information, surfing  the net, chatting, using 
applications  and  connecting  to  social  media  like WhatsApp,  Facebook,  Instagram,  Twitter, 
Viber, etc. The usage of mobile technology depends on the emerging need for the advancement 
of education and  student behavioural patterns.  In  the competitive era,  the accomplishment of 
extensive  learning goals  is possible only by  the  adaptation of new  teaching pedagogies. The 
educational  institutions have  started encouraging  teaching and  learning pedagogies which are 
suitable  to Gen Z  along with  regimented  chalk  and  talk method.  Schools  have  started  using 
applications to compete with the current style of education. Information Technology has changed 
the world into Gen Z where people think, senses and use information through technology. This 
study aims to evaluate the utilization of mobile technology in classroom teaching, analyze the 
impact of  technology  towards  enriching  the  learning  abilities of  the  students,  to  explore new 
pedagogies  suitable  for  learning  and  teaching.  This  paper  suggests  measures  to  teaching 
fraternity to improve the pattern of educational delivery by introducing innovative and advanced 
techniques of mobile technologies.