Monday, April 7, 2008

technology and education

Technology is touching upon all aspects of our life, especially since the launching of world wide webs. Education, which is responsible for the advance of technology in the first place, becomes more dependant on the new technological apparatuses. DVD and Multimedia are used today in schools over the world. They actually made the job of explaining abstract phenomenon and school subjects very relaxing and less demanding. Teachers in all specialities can have access to internet lessons plans and can even give homework assignment from their houses. Students now spend less time in browsing libraries that used to take days in the past. it suffice to enter a key word of your research and all books and chapters that handled that topic are between your hands. Technology also promotes distant learning and students over the world can take online classes and obtain eventually degrees without being moved to other parts of the worlds. Educational Webpages enables teachers and students over the world to communicate and exchange perspectives about their cultures and way of learning and teaching. Nowaday, there are somecomplete interactive teaching webpages and programs that take the role of the teachers. One may stay at home and receive all his courses, assignments and feedbacks in a gradually organised way. Taking all this into consideration, one can say that within the next couples of years, students will cease to go to school. That will save the governments big budgets, cause new unemployment of teachers and new jobs for educational webpage designers. The effects of technology on education within the next years or decades will be ubiquous and monumental. Therefore, everyone is required to equipe oneself with the necessary information and practices to meet this challenge.

1 comment:

LBates said...

Abdellah--

Great post. What do you think about the possible disadvantages of this growth, if any? You talked about students browsing the library less and depending on the world wide web. This is very beneficial to learning, but I think it also causes students to have shorter attention spans...They learn to find the quick and easy way but unfortunately, life isn't always like that.