Nothing probably can beat the traditional style of learning - of sitting under a tree and writing on a chalkboard, amidst the sound of birds chirping and the fresh grass under your feet.

The atmosphere and feel of such an environment all contribute to a healthy learning process in the child that is perhaps hard to get in today’s world.

There are, however, alternative means to achieve a learning system that is perhaps as good as this. As the world advances, it is only reasonable that the education system also advances, and learn to make use of the newer technologies and resources available to make academics and learning more beneficial for students.

What is extremely frustrating is that schools and educational institutions today, continue to adopt the failed aspects of traditional education systems without any desire to change them in the least. When we say the traditional system was good - we are not referring to a classroom of uniformed students, sitting and listening with robotic fervor to a teacher droning on about topics that least concern them, a stick in hand should any of these subjects dare digress? The traditional systems were many, and just as varied from each other. Not all of them were idea - you cannot expect a child to benefit from copying the same notes five, six, or even twenty times. This gets you nowhere; this system is extremely flawed and should be trashed by now.

But here you have, in today’s world of photocopiers and printers, power-points, and projectors, the teacher standing in front of a board and droning on about the same irrelevant things that teachers fifty years ago used to drone about. 

Technology, if used effectively, could revolutionize the way lessons are taught in schools. Take notes for example there is no point in making a child copy the same notes again and again - you could just hand the class worksheets and photocopied points to save time. This time could instead be used in hands-on learning, in elaborating with examples, in elucidating topics that need attention, in interacting with the class and answering questions.

Videos are such an effective way of teaching - especially when there’s a demonstration required that requires visual depiction. Say, for example, that the teacher is teaching the water cycle - how much more convenient it would be for her to play a video showing an animated depiction of clouds and rain, and how the cycle runs!

Videos are also very effective in grabbing the students’ attention easily. The class is much more likely to listen to you if you showed them something to go along with your explanation. Students can tire of hearing the same voice again and again, so a visual and perhaps humorous depiction on screen would help them learn the same topics much faster. Occasional movies, perhaps once a week, are also highly effective. Say, for example, they learn about the Chinese empires in history - follow this up with a screening of the movie Mulan, and watch them get enthralled with the same story you were trying to so redundantly teach them.

Overall, children are capable of adapting and learning of new technologies than adults. Therefore they are more likely to tire of old traditional methods than you may think - so if anything, your usage of new technologies would only encourage them to think their teacher is not all that backward and able to relate to them more than they think!