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Aurelio F. Polonio
Second Year College
Overview
After understanding what educational technology is all about, it may be good to reflect on whether this thing
called technology is a boon or a bane to education, a blessing or a curse to education.
Objectives
The learner now acquires knowledge anywhere, any- time_ in the home, in workplaces, in recreation
areas, in the streets, the learner has become his or her own investigation seeking knowledge. And the teacher?
He or she is no longer the sole provider of instruction.
Together with many, many other stakeholders in education, the teacher must now provide learner-centered
choices in knowledge acquisition. These choices include the choice of place and time where to access and
receive instruction, the choice of learning styles, and the choice of channels and delivery systems through which
learners gain knowledge.
The learner today, theoretically at least, has countless choices; and the teacher must be there to help the
learner choose wisely....
(Excerpt from the speed) delivered by His Excellency President Fidel V. Ramos on the 6* SEAMEO
1NNOTECH International Conference in Manila, Philippines on November 11-13, 1997.)
B. Study these comic strips. Find out what it depicts about the consequence of the use of
technology on relationships, learning and life.
Analysis:
Based on the readings you just did and the analysis of the comic strips, discuss in your small groups your answer to
this questions:
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 of life the learner gets
glued to his computer for computer-assisted instruction unmindful of the world and so fails to 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 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 or a curse.
Technology contributes much to the improvement of the teaching-learning process and to the humanization of
life. It is indeed a blessing. But when not used properly, it becomes a detriment to instruction and human progress
and development.
Technology is made for man and not man for technology. Technology is made for the teacher and not the
teacher for technology. This means that technology is meant to serve man in all aspects of life including instruction.
It is man, and in the context of the classroom, the teacher, who determines how technology ought to be used in
order to reap the maximum benefits that come along with technology.
The integration of technology in the instructional process must be geared towards:
interactive and meaningful learning
Learning Activities
Activity 1: Make your own reaction on the following. Are in favor or not? Why?
Below are reactions to the question "Do instant messaging, e-mail, cell phones and other
gadgetry bring family members closer or drive them apart?"
"Using a lot of high-tech gear to communicate at home is a poor proxy for
face-to-face communication and sees omnipresent technological ties as
threatening to intimacy. B.L.
"...Typing to each other instead of talking to each other can only lead to
problems down the road, such as teens using e-mail to deceive parents about
their activities." G.W.
'My wife and I talk more throughout the day because of instant messaging.
My communication with far-flung relatives is very much enriched by it." R.K.
"I thought our marital relationship would suffer when 1 left my wife for a
consultancy job abroad for eighteen months. E-mail missives made us more
aware, more accepting, and more communicative. " M.C.P.
"How can computerized communication, in place of face-to-face family
communication and' hugs, deepen dialogue? " T.H.
(Source: http://www.sfgate.com./cgi-bin/article/cgi?file^/chronicle/archive/20')
Activity 2: Come up with your own listing on how technology can be a blessing or a curse to mankind. Feel free to
give examples drawn from life, not only from inside the classroom. Use the table provided for you.
Technology as Boon
Technology as Sane
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Activity 3 : Each group must get a quotation and together must explain its meaning.
"All our technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."
- Albert Einstein
"If there is a technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in
human misery." - Michael Harrington
Activity 4: Recall computer applications that you learned from your basic computer courses. How are you applying
them now in your studies? Do an act of service. Find out how your computer applications can help a teacher who is
not yet computer literate. She may be your mother or sister or friend
Posttest
Discussion:
1. Can technology take the place of the teacher in the classroom? Discuss in your small
group.
2. You are a school head. For technology to serve its ultimate purpose of improved learning,
you involve your faculty in the formulation of guidelines on the use of technology in the
classroom. Simulate a faculty meeting and come up with written guidelines then pass to
your professor.