Technology is a blessing for man. With
technology, there is a lot that we can do which we could not do then. With cell
phones, webcam, you will be closer to someone miles and miles away. So far yet
so close! That is your feeling when you talk through a cell phone to a beloved
who is far away from here. Just think of many human lives saved because of
speedy notifications via cell phones. Just think of how your teaching and
learning have become more novel, stimulating, exciting, fresh and engaging with
the use of multimedia in the classroom. With your tv, you can watch events as
they happen all over the globe. President Ramos had a lively interaction with
his audience in Tacloban in his tele-address without disputing his work
schedule in Manila. I know of one Ph. D student who defended his dissertation
with one member of the panel in Japan interrogating the Ph. D candidate through
teleconferencing.
However, when not in used properly,
technology becomes a detriment to learning and development. It can destroy relationships.
Think of the husband who is glued to tv unmindful of his wife seeking his
attention. This may eventually erode marital relationship. Think of a student
who surfs the internet for pornographic scenes. He will have trouble with his
development. The abuse and misuse of the internet will have far reaching
unfavourable effects on his moral life. The teacher who schedules class tv
viewing for the whole hour to free herself from a one-hour teaching and so can
engage in “tsismis”, likewise will not benefit from technology. Neither will
her class truly benefit from the whole period of tv viewing.
In education, technology is bane when:
·
The learner is made to accept
as Gospel truth information they get from the internet.
·
The learner surfs the internet
for pornography.
·
The learner has an uncritical
mind on images floating on televisions and computers that represent modernity
and progress.
·
The tv makes the learner a mere
spectator not an active participant in the drama in life.
·
The learner gets glued to his
computer for computer-assisted instruction unmindful of the world and so fails
to develop the ability to relate to others.
· We make use of the internet to
do character assassination of people whom we hardly like.
· Because of our cell phone, we
spend most of our time in the classroom or in our workplace texting.
· We use overuse and abuse tv or
film viewing as a strategy to kill time.
Let’s go back to the question asked at the
beginning of this lesson. Is technology boon or bane to education? It depends
on how we use technology. If we use it to help our students and teachers become
caring, relating, thinking, reflecting and analysing and feeling beings, then
this is a boon, a blessing. But if we abuse and misuse it and so contribute to
our ruin and downfall and those of other persons, it becomes a bane or a curse.
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