The New Trends on Digital Technology in Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Journal of Research and Development Peer Reviewed International, Open Access Journal. ISSN : 2230-9578 | Website: https://jrdrvb.org Volume-17, Issue-10(II)| October2025 153 The New Trends on Digital Technology in Developing Critical Thinking Skills J. Gladiya Amali, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Immaculate College for Women, Chinnakanganankuppam, Cuddalore. [email protected] Manuscript ID: JRD -2025-171035 ISSN: 2230-9578 Volume 17 Issue 10(II) Pp. 153-156 October 2025 Submitted: 11 Oct. 2025 Revised: 22 Oct. 2025 Accepted: 27 Oct. 2025 Published: 31 Oct. 2025 Abstract The 21st-century has been the tremendous outlook for modern development of new trends in the field of education. As an act of technological use in the learning pedagogy the students as well as educators faced many challenges in digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving across the globe. In addition to that the 21st Century has marked the advancement in the usage of technology in the complex pandemic situation many skills are needed to the learners to exhibit their potentials to prove their ability for their future. In today’s world the use of traditional classroom learning environment has-been changed into virtual learning to give the students a chance to learn together while sitting at home. It helps the students to develop their critical and creative thinking as a part of their developing skills. Developing the critical thinking among students it is the sole responsibility of te educators to engulf the mode f conducting activity based teaching methods to up bring the skills in them. This paper examines the critical thinking skills among students through technological advancement and recent approaches in the transformation of digital learning methods which the education sector embedded with the students in learning practices. The digital classrooms have enabled students to develop their critical and creative thinking through listening to the text with the use of technological tools, reading eBooks in virtual library, creating and presenting texts by their own using their creative skills, interacting with others by sharing their opinions. From the close examination of text and also in the course of reading and active listening by the students leads to the critically analysis of their opinions and points of view would be unstated and their assumptions are embedded in texts. The foremost intention be implemented by the role of technology in developing critical thinking skills is focused by the recent use of emerging technologies for developing critical thinking skills. Widen such technologies are companionable with our education system and can fulfill the needs of our students. Keywords: Digital literacy, Critical thinking, Problem-solving skills, Modern technology, etc., Introduction The rapid growth of technological developments in the field of science and technology has the greatest influence in the socio-economic Structure of today’s emergence world and self. Education plays a major part in the growth of the society and the technological developments in education helps to building the electronic thoroughfare, and shape that in all aspects of the development of society are now determined through the skill development of the students for the sake of future generation. In modern the context of the complex situation like pandemic there is a necessitate for individuals who have lifelong learning skills as well as they need for the continuously rejuvenate their knowledge that helps to adapt themselves to the changes happens to them in the techno world. The students who can successfully manage and produce information with the use of technology may hold the key to the well-defined learning goals. Consequently, it is mandatory to teach the advanced order thinking skills, especially problems solving in real-world problems to the learners through appropriate planning and the use of modern technological tools and with the help of educators who can engage in the development of societal growth of the learners. Quick Response Code: Website: https://jrdrvb.org/ DOI: Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work noncommercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations ae licensed under the idential terms. Address for correspondence: J. Gladiya Amali,Assistant Professor, Department of English,Immaculate College for Women,Chinnakanganankuppam, Cuddalore How to cite this article: J. Gladiya Amali,(2025 ), The New Trends on Digital Technology in Developing Critical Thinking Skills,Journal of Research & Development, 17(10(II)),153-156 Original Article Journal of Research and Development Peer Reviewed International, Open Access Journal. ISSN : 2230-9578 | Website: https://jrdrvb.org Volume-17, Issue-10(II)| October2025 154 Towards the growth of the nation and the advance vision in the education with new policies were adopted by the higher education management with the use of technology for the growth of knowledge in students. In that perspective use of technological tools helps for the developments of critical thinking among students in order to inculcate their learning skills. The most important factor for the growth of economic and social developments is knowledge-based society. The use of technology faultlessly helps to engage the students with new trends in learning perspectives and achieve a set of definite learning goals. Technology can make a huge difference in the keenness about using technology in education is high, but one significant obstruction is the restricted flexibility that schools and colleges have to innovate. A collection of disrupting technologies such as the mobile Internet, the cloud, and automation of knowledge work which can help to redesign India’s training and education system.. Digital platforms can help educators reside with each other to students for implanting the new trends and online resources they need to teach in a post-pandemic world. In today’s techno world, the technology is an integral part of the classroom experience. The digital medium of skill learning also offers opportunities for teachers globally to maintain track of advancements in the field. of steering the success and well-being of their students. Critical Thinking and the Use of Technology The Digital technologies have make powerful learners to learn effectively and independently with the resources are being available instantly to enrich their potentials in learning new skills. With the use of technological liability, the trained educators engage in training the students with supplementary support and resources to convey equitable education to all the students in the class via digital classroom, where no student is left behind and learners can maximize their potential against all odds in their learning process.In the learning process the student’s needs to develop their critical thinking skills to face their challenges in real time and know their self and learn to face the challenges in the competitive world. Critical thinking is a mode of thinking in which a student or an individual can analyze a problem, combines the ideas , analyzes the necessity and evaluates information with an extensive renovation in their learning styles and social contact. In the developing future trends in digital language learning the skills are needed to the learners are by using the knowledge in solving complex problem-solving, adapting simply to new circumstances, creating solutions to any kind of problems ,and promote from developing technology in creating solutions. Developing the wide knowledge among students and. achievement in their social life is seen as the rote learning and major focus in the digital literacy of teachers. As the major consideration the digital teachers need to know in order to be digitally literate in a manner that improve their teaching and supports the learning ability of the students. . The effective use of technology in educational background can improve the students’ major skills along with the ability to execute what they learned to real-life situations and the managerial skills will help them to adjust with any situation. The educator should uplift the interest among students in the digital classroom to learn skills for their academic achievement, which enable them to gain critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In the early 21st century, it has been essential to have the skills to face the post-pandemic era with hope to achieve success in carrer and to face the job market with the help of basic life skills like critical thinking, problem solving,creative thinking, co-decision making, innovation of new ideas, knowledge sharing cooperation, communication, , information and communication technology literacy, productivity and adaptation are very essential for an individual. In the major part of learning process the focus of the educational development should be the framed by the technological mode of critical thinking with the support of today’s technology. The core framework helps with the new competences required by the field of digital learning are based on the learners to handle problems in a foresighted and thinking based way, the learners have to analyze the information about methods of reasoning and to be able to query by reasoning and they have the ability to apply these methods in their daily life. Critical thinking is selfpossessed of various aspect and rules and is required to develop new ideas or different perspectives and the need for the learners to think critically and meet the demands of today’s world that has been forced by the learners to develop their skills accordingly. Instead, it engrosses support and distribution that is why the knowledge, abilities and skills are expected from an individual to develop their potentials. Goals of Today’s Education in Post-Pandemic World: At the dawn of the 21st Century, the education environment and the techniques used in the field of education is changing. Critical thinking is considered as a important device to let individuals to be accountable for learning, thinking, and implementing their ideas in their lives which is developed by individuals fully using their own potentials with the help of educators they should know how to think, not what to think. The major factor of education now days in this pandemic complex situation, the use of Internet in education sector is making it possible for more individuals than ever to access knowledge and to learn in new and different ways. Both in Elementary and secondary education level students are experiencing the growing enrollments, coping with critical shortages of teachers, facing overcrowded and need for responding to demands for higher standards. The digital learning is facilitating us to take in hand these educational challenges in the pandemic and helps the students to bringing virtual learning experience to students instead of bringing students to learning. It is allowing for the creation of learning communities that challenge the restriction of time and distance as it provides access to knowledge that was once difficult to obtain without trained Journal of Research and Development Peer Reviewed International, Open Access Journal. ISSN : 2230-9578 | Website: https://jrdrvb.org Volume-17, Issue-10(II)| October2025 155 educators in the field.The critical thinking skill is also one of the most important factors in the process of practicing necessary skills for this century such as acquiring and using advanced technology it is important to assess educational activities as a process of implementing many models, which is far from rote learning, coercive or pacifying factors. Using technology according to needs, being creative, analyzing, managing, storing and transferring information new pedagogical models can helps the educators to engage in teaching learning process. In the account of previously expected knowledge and abilities are the necessities of the 21st century, it is clear that teachers and trainers preparing new methods for the future need to ensure that a basic knowledge of these models is part of their professional repertoire. The uses of technology, there are numerous claims extolling ways the Internet can positively affect students and teachers. Among these skills and new methods will help the students to realize the ability of the use of Internet to promote critical thinking and the potential of the Internet to build online communities of teachers. These both relate to the potential of the Internet to overcome the physical restrictions of the school and expose student’s next level, and thus have the potential to develop stronger. The power of the digital learning helps to transform the educational experience is awe-inspiring. Considering that the Internet is one in a long line of technologies embraced by the field of education with the hopes that it may improve higher education. Through Online classroom learning, students should learn to understand themselves, their interactions with others in virtual classroom, and the self. Critical thinking helps the Students need to learn about and respect their own culture as well as other cultures in their community and throughout the world. Educators should provide students with learning opportunities that connect classroom learning to out of textual contexts and students should learn how to transfer knowledge from one situation to another. It is important that students should learn to value the alternative ideas and understand the importance of creativity. Their critical learning skill has to involve them into investigating the ideas, synthesizing the text, analyzing the problems in the text, and creating new innovative ideas, and not be limited to memorizing facts. It is the responsibilities of the trainer to create opportunities to collaborate with their peers and learn from each other, as well as from their teachers. Within this framework, the arts are extremely important as they offer students ways to learn about, understand, and experience their world. Teachers should utilize multiple strategies that emphasize the connections between and among different disciplines and text, as well as connections with the world outside of school. Teaching students the new trend in the upgraded technology helps them to think critically, looking at issues from various points of view and helping students develop their own ideas and understandings of complex issues. Technological Development in Critical Thinking Skill: In this techno world Critical thinking majorly portrays as the mode of thinking about any subject, content or problem, in which the learner improves the quality of his thinking by skillfully intriguing charge of the configuration inherent in thinking, and commanding rational standards upon them. Critical thinking is chiefly categorized as selfcorrective thinking, self-disciplined, self-guided, self-directed, self-monitored and the highest level of quality in a fairminded way. The students who think critically constantly have to attempt to live rationally, reasonably and empathically. By developing the critical skills a learner will put together his moderate way of thinking suitable to the modern world and understand his true self. The use of intellectual tools in today’s world helps to assess, analyze and improve thinking and that offered by critical thinking such as principles and concepts where technology is used actively, The virtual learning of critical thinking skills will admired that the motivation to students and their academic achievements will increase to some extent and the rate of non-attendance is reduced, and their attitudes towards learning become more positive. Virtual learning improves students’s learning strategies and skills that implement what they learned till in their real life image. Eventually, Educators should train the students in many ways to inculcate their critical thinking with different topics, issues, and concepts are intricately connected to one another and influence each other. Students should utilize these connections, complications, and confluences with the real life situation and interpret the text as well In the course of the usage of online learning students have access to a larger amount of information than ever before. It provides them to access to wide range of information which is not sufficient to agree that students are thinking and learning. ToIn the factor of improving their ability to think about and understand the information the teachers should find the alternative way of teaching and show them the multiple ways to analyze, assess, and evaluate information. In addition to the the students need to learn about the reasons for the existence of multiple competing discourses surrounding many topics. Learning is about an event from the different perspectives of those involved can help students understand the multiplicity of possible interpretations of any object or event. Students may participate in interactive Internet activities that allow them to direct their own learning and construct knowledge in a social environment. Students should take advantage of these possibilities, educators must change how they teach, and adapt to the strengths and possibilities that the Internet offers. Certain aspects of the online classroom learning make it unique compared to previous technologies in the classroom. Journal of Research and Development Peer Reviewed International, Open Access Journal. ISSN : 2230-9578 | Website: https://jrdrvb.org Volume-17, Issue-10(II)| October2025 156 Conclusion: Digital learning provides interesting teaching and learning opportunities in terms of education. Educators can use these technologies to enhance and support teaching. it can be clearly seen that online discussion forums promote critical thinking because they provide opportunities for active participation, cooperation and interaction Critical thinking is an invaluable skill that students need to be successful in their professional and personal lives. Instructors can be thoughtful and purposeful about creating learning objectives that promote lower and higher-level critical thinking skills, and about using technology to implement activities that support these learning objectives Adoption of critical thinking strategies can also prepare students for the rigors of college, as well as helping them develop the skills necessary to compete economically in a global environment. As the dynamics of a global economy continue to evolve and change, to compete with their peers around the world students need to be able to creatively think and problem solve. 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