TECHNOLOGY: BOON OR BANE?

LB#2

              Technology can be fascinating and mind-boggling in what it can do. It can bring distant places and people together, establishing invisible but powerful connections.It can transform societies, economics and cultures by opening them up to other ideas and other options, raising new expectations and creating new needs. It can release or re channel previously unknown or wasted energies into more productive endeavors, allowing its users to pursue more creative goals . The students can acquire knowledge everywhere,anytime,in the home,in workplaces, in recreation areas and in the streets. The learner has become his or her own investigation seeking knowledge.

            However, technology ca be bane when not properly used.Such instances

• When the learner surfs the internet for pornography.
• When the learner has an uncritical thinking of images floating on televisions and computers that represent modernity and progress.
• When the TV makes the learner  a mere spectator not an active participant in the drama of life.
• When the learner makes use of the internet to do character assassination of people whom he hardly like.
• When because of cellphones, the learner spend most of his time texting in the classroom.

               Therefore I conclude that the preference of the students will determine whether   technology is a boon or bane. It all depends how the learner use the technology.