Many educational applications were developed in recent times which ease the life of students and teachers. There are applications for tuitions, discussions, institute specific and many more. Virtual classes are done 1 on 1 via applications so that teachers and students can work in their comfort at home at a flexible time. As mentioned earlier social Medias allows students to connect and communicate with other peer students around the world. Universities and colleges use applications such as MS Teams to conduct virtual classes professionally and also to help students if required without the need to meet in person. These applications also have tools such as screen sharing, whiteboard, notes so making virtual classes more convenient than traditional classes. Classes can also be recorded so students can watch them whenever they wish to. They also have institute specific applications such as LMS, SLATE so that they could upload notes, announcements, update calendar so that students are aware of the future academic plans and more. Exams are conducted online under special applications such as Lockdown Browser where students are prohibited from accessing external resources and blocked from any means of communication similar to tradition in-class exams. Assignments are submitted in Turnitin which scans the entire internet for plagiarism to check the authenticity of the student’s work so that teachers do not need to check every work for authenticity which would be a nightmare. Teachers are also greatly benefitted from software such as above and furthermore they do not have to correct each and every quiz done by students anymore instead they can simply upload the answers online in the systems which automatically corrects the students’ answers by comparing with uploaded answers. Use of email has made communication between teachers and students easier too, students can mail their teachers with any doubts and teachers can reply on their convenient time. Students can make professional notes using applications such as MS Word which provides many options and neat work in note taking. More and more applications are being developed as per the requirement with time for education. 

Online degrees are currently a very prevalent phenomenon. People educate themselves more often for their certifications and learning in online courses now. Almost all prominent institutions provide reputed online programs and this will continue to surge as time goes by because more and more people prefer to study in online globally due to the flexibility of this. There are multiple platforms both paid and free that offers so many online programs. Due to the online programs age is no more a barrier in education, a 7-year-old kid can learn to develop an application or a 70-year-old adult can still graduate from a degree right from home. R. Raja mentions that “Thanks to technology; education has gone from passive and reactive to interactive and aggressive” [1].

In the recent times data analytics has been a hot topic, data analytics is collecting data and using it to make useful insights. To make education even better data analytics is being used in few institutes. Data of the students such as marks, topics they are weak in are being collected in order to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the students which is then later trained and developed. 

Modern technology in education also motivates students. Students are always curious and eager in trying out something new and they are more likely to retain it. Millar [3] conducted a study on motivating students in classrooms and the difficulty of it. She said that “technology is, like giving each student their own smartboard”. They can show what they know, and teachers can be comfortable knowing learning is occurring. The use of technology allows all students the opportunity to participate, “It's hard to be honest when you have to put your hand up in front of the room”. Students feel proud and confident too when they gain knowledge using technology and complete tasks.

Accessibility to education has never been this easier, thanks to the modern technology that students with disabilities too can study their preferred program and be part of the regular society. There are many specialized devices for different disabilities so that everyone receives good education equally in this world. There are other devices made specifically with education in mind such as amazon kindle which is more of a digital version of a book where thousands of eBooks are available online for users to read. Interactive white boards allows students and teachers to collaborate and comment on a single surface so that the entire class can see and participate actively simultaneously. 

Use of technology in education also means that students are learning to use them ahead before they are exposed into industries. Today all industries rely on technologies heavily so if someone does not know to use a technology will be declared as an unworthy candidate so using technology in education can be highly beneficial for the students’ future as they gain the knowledge of using them before they actually start working. 

Although education and technology together have so many benefits there are drawbacks too. Day by day advancement of technology is rising and this demands that teachers will need to learn how to use these new technologies every once in a while. Gressard and Loyd (1985)[1] asserted that teacher's attitudes toward computers are a key factor in the successful implementation of ICT in education. They pointed out that teachers do not always have positive attitudes towards computers and their poor attitudes may lead to a failure of the computer- based projects. A study by Fernández-Batanero, Román-Graván, Reyes-Rebollo, and Montenegro-Rueda (2021)[5] found that the use of new technologies can be detrimental to teachers because it implies changes to their instructional strategies or pressure to pick up technological know-how, leading to consequences like physical, social, and psychological issues. Teachers will also be lack of time as they have focus on their career and family whilst trying to learn something new. Due to their busy schedule, they might also be unable to attend training sessions held to learn the new technology. Teachers always try to give their best to students and they sacrifice a lot while doing it and using technology for education only means more and more sacrificial from them.

Lack of resources and accessibility is another barrier of technology. In order to learn the technology both students and teachers should have access to it and not everyone is fortunate enough to buy the latest technologies so this means the institutes will need to purchase them so that it is available to access in school/institute. Number of resources available also matters as teachers and students who wish to learn them will need to wait for long hours in order to use if it is very limited in number. This could also be a time-consuming task and no flexibility at all as they need to travel to and for from school in order to utilize the technology. Another major factor is finding a suitable trainer who could teach to use the technology, if it is new to the market, it also means less users who knows to use them well so arranging a well-suited trainer for it is also a hassle. Another barrier given by Butler and Sellbom (2002) and Chizmar & Williams (2001) is reliability [1]. Reliability included hardware failures, incompatible software between home and school, poor or slow internet connectivity and out of date software which are available mostly at school while the students/educators are having more up-to-date software at home. Technological delay such as slowness in Wi-Fi ends up with classes getting delayed as contents takes time to load, servers breaking down during submission of assignments and students end up with low grades, computers shutting down in middle of the exams and much more. Getting latest technology is expensive too, from buying the hardware to getting a trainer will cost the institute significantly.