LESSON  2 -  TECHNOLOGY: BOON OR BANE?

Technoloy is in our hands. We can use it to build or destroy."

  

•   Educational Technology is a boon because it has a great advantage in our lives especially in our studies . It can make our life more easier and comfortable. It controls the world in which we live in. It helps us in many ways and understand the things that are happening around us. We can create beyond our imagination of what we can do and explore many things that educational technology can offer. It can also widen our knowledge because it is unlimited of the information we wanted to know. It could only be a bane if we abuse our privilege in using and applying it in our lives. Especially when you are to addicted with it in a way that it cannot help you anymore nor can destroy you. So it is really depends upon us on how to use it and for what purpose to use it as, it has been used for good as well as bad causes.

•  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 an uncritical mind on images floating on television 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 the 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 strategy to kill time.

•  If we use Technology to help students and teachers become caring, relating, thinking, reflecting and analyzing and feeling beings, then it 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, a curse.