Chapter 2: Technology; Boon or Bane?

“Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical task.”

        Our modern day today has been exposed to technology thus it is becoming a huge part of our daily life activities. Technology has variety of scope hence focuses more too teaching and learning process. Using technology as supplementary teaching device in the instruction is a priority in most schools today. When teachers started to use computers in the classroom, schools evaluate whether the use of educational technology had a significant and consistent impact on the part of the student.

        Majority of the students’ feedback are about the blessings or advantages that technology can bring to everyone. But still, to have a balance in nature, there will always be a negative to complement the positive. Technology can also be a curse or a boon to everyone. Several devices have been introduced like laptops and tablets. Each of them has their own versions with even more advanced apps. Such devices help us finish loads of work with ease, but using such devices even in fields of education might affect the habits of students.

        Schools have started introducing the idea of using tablets for taking down notes, writing simple tests and completing their projects. This gets the mind of a student completely in technology and they tend to forget the use of books. Earlier students did not have the idea of using internet to browse information about different topics and were dependent completely on books which resulted in a very good vocabulary, but students these days do not have much of a good vocabulary.

          They start to expect everything just by a touch on the screen. The students finish their work just for the sake of it and actually don't show any interest in it. Technology is good enough provided it is used in the right field and in the right age.

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Reflection: 

       Technology these days has advanced our lifestyle. Things have become so easy. It is being used everywhere and in everything. It has many advantages when it’s used for the development of the class, but also, it has a disadvantage when it isn’t used in this, because it distracts us and impede us learning. But I think that there are more on the positive side because it is very important and useful for all class of people, it is portable and with many applications that serve as help to the persons.        

Technology is boon and bane but it’s depends in every individual if how they use it, if they choose to be harmed or to make things easier e.g. in education.