LESSON 2-TECHNOLOGY: BOON or BANE?

        

                  Technology can be fascinating and mind-boggling in what it can do. It can bring distant places and people together,establishing invisible but powerful connections. It can transform societies,economies and cultures by opening them up to other ideas and other options,raising new expectations and creating new needs. It can release and rechannel previously unknown or wasted energies into more productive endeavors,allowing its users to pursue more creative goals. The pervasiveness of technology has created learning environment we never even imagined just a few decades ago. Learning has no more

 geographic boundaries. It is no longer confined to the school campus.
                   The learner now acquires knowledge anywhere,anytime in the home,in workplaces,in recreation areas,in the streets,the learner has become his/her own investigation seeking knowledge. The teacher is no longer the sole provider of instruction.

INSIGHTS AND REACTION:

                  The teacher must now provide learner centered choices in knowledge acquisition. These choices include the choice of place and time where to access and receive instruction,the choice of learning styles and the choice of channels and delivery systems through which learners gain knowledge. 

Technology can be called boon or bane depending on the ability and dependability of the user.

                  BOON or BLESSING if we use it in the right way,correct usage and correct understanding. With technology,we can do a lot which we could not do then.we will be closer to someone who is far away or miles and miles away through webcam. Cellphones can use especially in emergency,it can saved many human lives because of speedy notifications. By using miltimedia in the classroom,the teaching and learning is exciting,stimulating,refreshing,and engaging. We can watch events,news,wheather telecasts,government updates and news through TV. We can communicate our lovedones in the states by using a Skype or phones. We can send directly good news for niece and nephews achievement in school right away. Teachers can easily discuss lessons and give their examples to students by just searching it through internet by the use of a power point device. Students can readily understood by looking at the computer nor by researching through internet by the use of Google. It makes work easier and convenient,no hassles,no work delay,no stresswork and no worries.

                 Technology contibute much to the improvement of teaching-learning process and to the humanization of life. It is indeed a blessing but when not properly used,it becomes a detriment to instruction and human progress and development.

                BANE or MISERY used wrongly,misuse and abused. If a husband keep on watching TV unmindful of his wife,seeking his attention,of course it can destroy or erode marital relationship. If the students surfs internet for pornographic scenes. When the learner is made to accept as Gospel truth information they get from the internet. When the learner has an uncritical mind on images floating on TV and computer that represent modernity and progress;The TV makes the learner a mere spectator not an active participant in the drama of life. The student get glued to computer-assisted instruction unmindful of the world and so fails to develop the ability to relate to others. If it is used to do character assassination of people whomhe/shr hardly like. Spending most of the time in the classroom or in a workplace texting because of cellphones. Overuse and abuse TV or film viewing as a strategy to kill time.

                The abuse and misuse of the Internet will have far reaching unfavorable effects on moral life.So,for me,technologi is a boon not bane.... 

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