- refers to all the ways people use their inventions to satisfy their needs and desires
What benefits did technology bring?
What disadvantages did technology bring?
Technology:Boon or Bane?
Technology is a blessing for man. With technology, there is a lot that we can do which we could not do then.
When not used properly, technology becomes a detriment to learning and development.
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 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 of 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 cellular phones, we spend most of our time in the classroom or in the workplace texting
• We use, overuse and abuse TV or film viewing as a strategy to kill time
Technology contributes too much to the improvement of the teaching-learning
process and to the humanization of life.
“Technology is made for man and not man for
technology.”
The integration of technology in the instructional process must be geared towards:
• Interactive and meaningful learning
• The development of creative and critical thinking