Bolaji, Hameed Olalekan (2017)

Google has been assisting educators and institutions across the globe in harnessing the power of technology to create engaging, collaborative teaching and learning environments. Based on best practices collected over years of successfully deploying Google for Education’s solution in schools from basic to higher education, there are five easy steps that are underlined with a guide to activating technology in schools while considering bringing learning online: 1. Define your goals, 2. Invest in Internet access, 3. Build your team, 4. Offer web tools, and 5. Manage change. In this paper, attempt is made to explore some of the Google applications commonly used in education which include Google applications and the search engine; Google plus G+, Google site, Google photo, Google translate, Google Maps and YouTube are. Other issues discussed includes the area of handling teachers and learners’ tasks such as lesson planning and delivery, student’s experiential learning and research to solve homework, using Google classroom to connect with other professionals and learners across the globe to share opinions on a particular problem of the challenges to effective utilization of the commonly used GAFE in education are also identified and recommendations to overcome them are offered.