don’t use them. They say the information they need is hard to find on a traditional intranet, their designs are clunky and outdated and they don’t add value to their already-stressful working day.
Finally, like in most jobs, teachers are bound by their institutions when it comes to the technology that they have at their disposal to do their jobs. The seats of learning manage their devices, which means that productivity inevitably suffers if the hardware develops an issue.
It all adds up to what can be termed ‘technostress’ – and it’s something into which research on its effects on university lecturers has already been carried out.
Similarly, although many Generation Z students will be digital natives who have lived with technologies for their entire lives, their reliance on it in the classroom or lecture theatre may be overwhelming as it turns them, to all intents and purposes, into ‘telecommuters’ like their parents who may have had to work from home during the pandemic .
Solving issues All these issues can be solved by engaging an adaptive digital workplace in the classroom. They offer user-friendly environments that integrate everything a teacher needs to do their job in one place, on any device and from any location within a school, college or university faculty. A well-organised portal allows a teacher to find not just files and documents related to their lessons and lectures but also timetables, current and historic submissions and grades of work from students and records of absences. All this information will be available to them wherever in the world they are, on whichever device they want to access it from.
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