Friday, October 24, 2008

The Good and Bad Side of Technology

You are sitting at your computer, listening to a renowned expert lecturer on a topic of educational importance. As you listen, you are viewing diagrams, charts, Web sites, presentations, and spreadsheets that support and enhance the lecture. While the lecture continues your mind start wondering; thinking of how things used to be. How was the technology that existed back then and you make a comparison with what we currently have in learning.

Since the beginning, men always wanted to create something to facilitate his tasks, something to improve the quality of their lives and his ability to learn. In today’s world, there is hardly anybody who can say that their lives have not been influenced by technology, whether they like it or not. There are lots of routine in our life which involved technology such as on-line banking, e-commerce, organization, writing, international interaction and so on. We could say that we are so much depends on technology in our life nowadays.

From my point of view, technology is a multi-tools which could stimulates different learning channel (auditory, visual and etc) and facilitates different learning style. It is an easy ways of combining texts, graphics, sound, videos and animation. Besides integrating the technology in the classroom, the existence of this new trend of learning could be explore by students outside the classroom around the clock.

In contrast, the hardware, software and infrastructure requirements may be steep. Technology skills and software require time and effort to master. This could be a major obstruction for teachers in designing teaching aids for the lesson with little time. Students might also affected as they need to spend time mastering the skills and software in addition to the content of the lesson.

However, I believe as time goes by, the obstacles will be overcome by teachers as well as students through continuous learning. We need to keep updated with latest trend of technology as it could reduces the number of things which we need to acquire and master.



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