Exploring The Application of Digital Tools in Teaching and Learning

Abstract

A study is done on the title, ‘Exploring the application of Digital Tools in Teaching and Learning’. The major objective of the study is to explore the application of digital tools in teaching and learning in Sri Lanka schools. A study is conducted among school students of selected schools from Negombo, Sri Lanka. Quantitative research method is used in this study. Data are collected from the school students using a well-structured questionnaire with several elements. Further, descriptive analysis method was used in the study. The study finds out that 100% of the students are being happy to use digital tools in their classrooms. Moreover, 99.4% and 99.8% of the students responded that they have general facility related to digital tools in their schools and are interested in using digital tools in their classrooms respectively. The study concludes that students are interested to learn with digital tools, but the application is less in the classrooms. The study recommends to utilising the digital tools in all the schools so that students can also travel with the technology.