Miyerkules, Enero 23, 2013


Monilla, Joe Vicxel I.
AB English 3-A

The Role of Technology in the 21st Century Education

As time goes on, technology grows widely and rapidly and developing more in advance. And as everywhere we go, left or right, wherever we are at school or at home, at work or at church, technology is just right there.
Technology almost changes everything; our daily lives are much simpler than before. Buildings, houses, churches and any other infrastructures are easily built by the help of technology. Phones, flat screen television, i-pads, notebook, tablet, laptops, computers, cooking from a pot to a rice cooker, refrigerator, alcohol lamps to fluorescent light bulbs, cars, comics to cinema, typewriter to digital printers, black and white cameras to digital camera and ect. All of these things happened because of technology.
If all those things are contributed by technology, it also helps and develops in the field of our education and our education’s system. Remember, that education is one of the basic needs a person can also have.
Now imagine a room without printed books, without a single thing like a computer. How does life of a student and a teacher without those things or usable tools that can help both the student and the teacher gain knowledge fast and reliable? Just imagine that. If I will be asked that question and you are to ask me about that, I could say, life of a student and a teacher is not that easy. It would not be easy because without technology, life could be that tough and slow.
If there could be advanced technology like the use of computer. At school, teachers use computers to assist with classroom instruction. Students complete tasks, homework and conduct research on computers in laboratory, at home or elsewhere. Some students could also take their entire classes directly from their computer. Teachers can easily encode grades on laptops and computer, while staffs at school could manage students’ payments and class subjects. Air conditioner and electric fans can lessen the warm in the class. Thus, those things can help to have a better environment in the students learning field and teachers and staffs at their working place. Systems at schools can be effortlessly work and done as fast as it could. Technology can help transfer important messages and information that is needed to both students and teachers.
As technology continues to advance, life becomes much comfortable and simpler many ways. All in all, technology makes us better.
But we should also remember that we have to balance our lives in using technology. We must not depend ourselves or everything to it. Too much use of technology could result to the destruction of humanity.