Technology in Our Education

Nataliya Stefanyshyn

    04/09/2013

   Essay #2, draft #1  

                                   

                                    Technology in Our Education

                Technology today has made a huge impact on our lives and our education by increasing the speed of learning and by making the style of learning much better.  For me, technology made me see and realize bigger opportunities in life. For example, a computer with internet access basically has all the information you will need and it is one of the fastest ways to find research on any given topic. Also, it can really help me understand and answer any questions I have about a certain topic. Computers can also be used for entertainment and they can be educational at the same time. I believe that computers are very useful and are used in everyday life.

Another example of how technology has benefited my life would be the use of smartphones. Smartphones have helped me stay more organized and remember things better. They helped me always stay in touch which is important because you can call anywhere you like and it helps you communicate faster.

 Finally, my last example would be my TV. Every evening I turn on the news. It helps me keep in touch with what is happening around the world and it keeps me educated. On my TV I can watch educational movies and documentaries that might help me with my education as well as computers. For some people it is easier to visually see things and that helps them understand it a little more deeply. For me, documentaries help me see how things really are instead of just reading from books.

          However, technology has a few disadvantages.  The major disadvantage of technology is that the more advance and better the technology becomes, the more people start to depend to get all their information and researches from the computer. People have started to overused technology and have used it as sole source of learning. This caused that many people have had terrible handwriting; also people have lost mentally and physically interacting. In modern life we have loss of communication and socialization skills between students and teacher as well as between students. It happens more often that students can talk to someone around the world by texting or messaging, but not be able to get conversation with a student sitting next to him in classroom. Technology has definitely changed traditional methods of leaning, but cannot replace human factor in our education.