Lesson 2

Lesson 2

Technology: Boon or Bane

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

“Is Technology a BOON or BANE?

Stated more simply is it:      

·         A BLESSING or a CURSE?

·         A BLESSING or a DETRIMENT to a person’s development?

Technology is BOON

Technology is a blessing for a man. With technology there is a lot that we can do which we could not do then.

Technology contributes much to the improvement of the teaching-learning process and to the humanization of life.

With TV, you can watch events as they happen all over the globe.

Your teaching and learning can be more novel, stimulating, exciting engaging with the use of multimedia in the classroom.

 Many human lives saved because of speedy notifications via cellphones.

With cellphones, web cams you will be closer to someone miles and miles away.

TECHNOLOGY is BANE

When not used properly, technology becomes a detriment to learning and development.

Examples: Erode marital relationships.

                 It can destroy relationships.

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 a 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 develop the ability to relate to others.

We make use of the Internet to do character assassination of people whom we hardly like.

Because of our cellphone, we spend most of time in the classroom or in workplace texting.

We use overuse and abuse TV or film viewing as a strategy to kill time.