Education and Technology

How important is technology in education? For the past years, learning and education simply mean a face to face lecture, reading books and hand-outs, taking down notes and completing assignments generally in the form of answering questions or writing essays. In short; education, learning and teaching was impossible without a teacher, books, chalkboards and notebooks. But as of today, with the advent of many helpful gadgets, education and training have a whole new meaning. Computers are essential part f every classroom and teachers using CD, DVDs, videos, and presentations to show how things work and operate. Moreover, each student can progress at his or her own pace.

In the current age we live in, TECHNOLOGY has been an important component of our everyday lives. Every day, new gadgets and softwares that make our everyday living easier and nevertheless improve the existing technology and software. Nowadays, Technology plays an important role in education. As technology advances, it is used to benefit students and even the professional ones in the learning process.  Technology used in the classrooms help students to visualize what the teacher is talking about. Technology has become an integral part of the learning process because even outside the school premises, we use computers and the internet to make presentations and to research for topics we need for assignments, reaction and term papers and reports.

The role of technology in education is included as a part of the curriculum, an instructional delivery system, a way of instruction and a tool used to enhance the entire learning process. Without technology, education would not be interactive and aggressive as compared to before that is passive and reactive. Education is very essential to the corporate and academic world. Education and training is used to help the labor force (workers) to do things differently than what they did before. However, education is being geared up towards creating curiosity in the minds of the young ones. For both cases, the use and importance of technology helps students and workers to understand and retain the concepts better.

The rapid and constant pace of change in technology is creating both opportunities and challenges for schools. The opportunities include greater access to wide multimedia content, the widespread availability of computing devices that can be accessed in the internet, the expanding role of social networking tools for learning and professional development and the growing interest in the power of the digital world for more learning. The impact of technology to us can be extremely significant, as far as the education sector is concerned. The use of technology makes the entire process of learning not only interesting but more impactful as well. As the technology advances, students and professionals have better access to educational opportunities and information that the internet provide us.

When technology is used properly in the field of education, it can be a powerful tool that can help engage and challenge learners, provides the learners with practice and include feedbacks that can be very useful to students to reflect on what they have learned. It is very evident that technology has changed the education system. It helped in enhancing the learning experience as well as a student’s perception or thinking of what he or she can do. 

Over the years, with the advent of the modern technology, it really became obvious for everyone of us how important TECHNOLOGY in EDUCATION.

on virtual Socialization

Social networking isn’t for everyone, but it’s now such a massive part of all our lives, whether we embrace or reject the notion, that it can no longer be ignored. Social media are a part of the daily routines of many adults and children nowadays. And the identifiable pros and cons of social networking are now beginning to emerge. There are few secrets in the world anymore. This is mostly due to the fact that the social networking has opened up a world where almost every thought goes onto the web and other sees it. This causes families to split, marriages to be dissolved, and children to experience their parent’s unfiltered thoughts on a daily basis. Online bullying has become an overwhelming problem with teens and young adults as well as in the workplace. Without the right security measures, everything and anything that people or an individual put out in these public domains is subjected to being scrutinized and looked at by anyone in the world.

Having already looked at the negative impact of social networking sites on society, I thought it only fair to redress the balance. Every ying has its yang, after all. It’s clear to see that what some people would conceive as negatives can also be positive. It has never been easier to make friends than it is right now, mainly thanks to social networking sites. Just a few decades ago it was pretty tough to connect with people, unless you were the overly outgoing type, able to make conversation with anyone at a party. The rise of mobile phones helped change this, connecting people in a new way, but then social networks sprang up and the whole idea of friendship changed once more and forever.

It’s entirely possible to have hundreds of friends on Facebook. They may not be friends you know on a personal level and spend time with in the real world on a weekly basis. But they’re friends nevertheless. There are several people I consider friends who I have never met – indeed, I may never meet them – but that doesn’t lessen the connection we have thanks to social networks.

Each of us spends a little too long talking about ourselves on social networking sites. Which is perfectly natural? We’re sharing our lives – the ups and downs, the twists and turns – with people we think will care. They generally do care, and will tell you so. They will listen to what you have to say, and help you deal with any problems you may be facing. If this isn’t the case then you may want to find new friends. The point is that by all of us sharing our experiences, both good and bad, on social networking sites, we’re able to empathize with each other. A friend may have gone through a similar ordeal that you now are, and they will be able to inform you how they got through it. You’ll also be able to see for yourself that they made it out the other side that this issue didn’t derail them, and they’re perhaps better for the experience. Social networking sites can act as a kind of group therapy sessions.

Our time is being stretched thinner and thinner by work and family commitments, but social networking sites offer a chance to communicate in a speedy and efficient manner. Writing an update takes all of 20 seconds, and with cross-posting over other social networks switched on, that update reaches everyone you want it to reach (and probably more besides) in an instant.

One of the reasons I dislike making phone calls is the unnecessary banter they necessitate. You can’t just say what you want to say and then hang up. Doing so is seen as downright rude. Instead you have to swap pleasantries before saying what you want to say, and then make swap more pleasantries before the conversation comes to a natural conclusion.

Social networking sites allow you to live a life unhindered by small talk

It isn’t just your inner circle of close friends and even closer family members that social networking sites allow you to communicate with easily and effectively, either. They open the world up to you, making it a smaller place than it has ever been before. So much so that I actually haven’t a clue where many of my contacts reside. When it comes to social networks everyone is equal, regardless of location. Family living abroad can be kept abreast of the latest happenings in your world as quickly as those living next door. Friends who you haven’t seen since school, and who have since moved away, are able to keep in touch. Social networking as a whole means it has become a lot less important.

Social networking sites have made the world a smaller place. And then there is no doubting that social networking sites can lead to the breaking up of relationships. But there is another side to the tale, which is that people are moving onto other, perhaps better, relationships at the same time. Social networks can put you (back) in touch with those you have lots in common with, and that common ground is often the starting point for long-lasting relationships.

As painful as break-ups can be, they can sometimes be the right thing for all concerned. What’s to say that the new relationship, founded on the steps of Facebook, isn’t THE one that will last? Even if it doesn’t turn into a spectacular coupling, it could be the friendship that is needed at the time. Which has to be a positive?

Social networking sites can help foster friendships and perhaps more besides.

As previously mentioned, social networking sites can help you find people you share interests with. Facebook, for example, asks you to list who and what you are into right from the start, meaning common ground with others is much easier to find. On Twitter you will follow those who have something to say that you’re interested in, making connections with like-minded individuals much easier than is possible offline.

This does require sharing information, and giving up a certain amount of privacy in order to do so. Which is enough for some people to reject social networking outright? Keeping key personal information private is necessary, but likes and dislikes, interests and obsessions, thought and views, isn’t. And actually contributes to an open society. Social networking sites make fitting in easier, as long as you open up a little. As with most things in life there are positive and negative sides to social networking, both of which we have now explored. My ultimate belief is that when done in moderation, with checks and balances on how younger people in particular are using them, and with a firm grasp being kept on reality at all time, social networking sites are neither evil or a Godsend.

Missing the snail mail

Before the advent of e-mail, letters and mails are sent through the postal offices or postal service rather than through email, fax and other ways of electronic communication, which is the trend nowadays. Letters sent from the postal service was referred as "snail mail" because, these letters generally takes two to three days or even weeks to get to its destination whereas an email can be sent, received and be answered immediately as soon as the receiver had read the mail.

Technology and communication evolves so fast. Before, we communicate with our love ones, friends and coworkers through snail mail which was provided for us through the Postal Services. Today as I was passing by this small and old office building, I remember that I did not have the opportunity to write and send a letter to people I know using the Postal service.  Although I was able to go inside this office twice to apply for a postal ID, after I graduated college, because I don't have any valid ID after my graduation. Despite the fact that I was not able to send letter, I was able to send a postal money order using the postal money service.

The Central Luzon State University(CLSU) Post office in CLSU Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija Philippines 3120.

With the advent of modern technology, sending letters and mails to the our loved ones, friends, and coworkers made our lives a lot easier and hassle free. Not only do we save in papers, envelopes and postage costs but we have also found a valuable time saver in keeping contact and in touch with people we know. Nowadays, we are able to talk to people we know from different part of the world, despite the distance and time differences we have. There is really no doubt about how the world became small with the advanced technologies we have today. 

These days, we still received letters(snail mail) from entrepreneurs who wants us to involve in their businesses such as letters from insurance companies and letters from charities asking for our donations. There is really no doubt that we live in a fast-paced universe nowadays and we have to go with the flow or else we will be left behind. People are moving at a speedy rate as though there is no tomorrow. I admit that this technological advancement offered to us, is a very big help in many ways and can be applied on our daily life. But it also affects us in a way that we are always on the go keeping up with the fast paced universe.

Although we have so many to gain in the swift and efficient turnaround of things, we also sometimes crave for the slowness of tempo and the luxury of taking each moment as a leisure and savoring the joy it brings to us.