Advantages And Disadvantages Of Technology Based Education In South Africa

Though there are some positive effects, the adverse impact of technology on education has been extraordinary. The technology community has worked hard to bring useful technology into our classrooms, all with good intentions to broaden our knowledge. With these good intentions also came about unwanted side effects such as distraction and disruption in the classroom. I can clearly remember many of my teachers yelling at us to put our cell phones, iPods, and iTouch phones away especially during lecture and exams. The yelling was not without just cause, students cheated with their devices along with updating their Facebook pages during class too.

Kardaras claims that technology cannot be used in schools, however I recommend that technology should be used in schools because it helps students keep in good health, save money and get good grades. To begin with, I think computers are easy to carry. Specifically, textbooks are too heavy for students to carry resulting a lot of students get shoulder disease. If they have e-books in computers, they would carry a computer to school without a lot of textbooks. In addition, e-books are cheaper than paper books. If a student has e-books, each semester he could save more than 400 dollars. That would ease students’ financial pressures. Furthermore, students can restudy lectures again and again because all lectures are on the internet. They can arrange

Technology is a portion of everyday life. It affects how business is conducted, teaching, learning, and receiving information. Good or bad, everyone uses technology every day. There are many items people have on them on a daily basis, one would be hard pressed to be without. If you were to examine the effect of technology on teaching and learning and acquire an understanding of why technology should be a part of every classroom curriculum, what would the conclusion be? Technology is a great benefit to the classroom, it stimulates our digital generation and allows educators to be more creative with curriculum.

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. It may allow us to view and know things never imaginable but it also can cause us harm, that before the 21st century we never thought would be a problem. Because we didn't know. Now, we know and technology is affecting the youth, it's is causing social relationships to fail, increased multitasking, and addictiveness. This is why I believe our school should take part in “Screen Free Week”.

Schooling is one of the biggest contributors to being successful in modern day America. In this modern times there is a major contrast to how it used to be for our parents and grandparents. Technology is advancing in numerous ways allowing for students to learn in new innovative ways, but these advancements have their downfalls with things such as social media. This effects a student’s mental safety with things such as bullying which occur on an everyday basis. Students physical safety is also in jeopardy with gun violence on the rise with examples such as Columbine or Sandy Hook. Finally, students have lost a sense of respect in the class room for their teachers and advisors. Technological advancements, student’s safety and respect students

Aided by the convenience of smartphones, tablets, and computers, the Pew Research Center has found that 92% of teens are online daily, with open access to harmful material that can affect developing minds permanently, and set up habits that can damage their potential for success in the future. An even more shocking 24% of teens say that they are online “almost constantly.” As a tenth grader in Carolina Day’s upper school, I’ve witnessed the daily activities of students who confirm these statistics. To them, navigating the internet is second nature, and that is where the real danger lies. While at school, they are still granted connection to every game, social media site, and free essay resource, without limits. Unrestricted and unlimited access to the internet is negatively impacting Carolina Day School’s environment by affecting interpersonal relationships, stunting the positive development of the brain, and decreasing the chance of students gaining critical life skills.

Social media plays a big part in why many schools have not jumped on the technology train. “Often, even when kids are together, they are interacting with their phones instead of with each other.” This seems like a disadvantage, that kids will lose the ability to socially interact with one another. It could be a matter, but not if you keep their internet access at school limited. In the article from the Washington post, it seems like there are certain times when it is okay to be on social media and when it isn't. “And a majority of young

If we remove technology from schools, we would see students paying more attention to the teachers and better grades due to a lack of distraction. It is bad, yet it is also very good. In one part of the class, kids will be playing games on their Surfaces or doing stuff on their phones. Therefore, smartphones, texting, video games, iPads, Facebook, Web surfing and television do get me distracted and interrupt my learning. The rest of the class will usually be doing the work they’re supposed to do. But in reality, technology, whether it be a text, assignment, or game can be very distracting and attention-span

Remember that scary, grotesque, evil monster we were all scared of when we were younger? Well, it's alive, we just can't see it, and it's called technology. As we all know, technology is changing and evolving every day; but it's almost as if the technology is taking over the minds of our future generation. Schools are incorporating technology into learning more and more all the time. Every month there is a new phone, tablet, television, laptop and even thousands of websites. These devices can come in handy and can be helpful, but they almost are consuming everyone's mind and minimizing critical thinking. Many of technology users are children or young adults. Although the use of technology in education can have some positive results, it has more negative effects that are affecting students.

We live in a world where technology runs everything. Without it we wouldn't be able to stay cool in the summer or be able to keep up on the news. Now let's narrow in on technology that we are very familiar with, computers and the Internet. The Internet has expanded the way we get information. More importantly how we get our work done. For example my 8th grade year in middle school, I was placed in a mandatory computer class. I learned to efficiently type, use word documents, and create a professional PowerPoint. Without this class I would've been at a disadvantage in high school and college. The use of computers has made its way into schools, but there's a question to ask. How does this effect the schools

I think that the use of technology in schools is one of the best decisions the school system could have made. Living in a time period of accelerating change, I think that it is important to lean away from the more traditional educational tactics of teaching and learning that may have worked in the past. And start to transition into the more modern-day style of teaching and learning, which involves technology. Students are always using technology. Whether it is them on their laptops, tablets, or using their phones to surf the internet or an app, it is a vital part of their daily lives. I think that because technology plays such a primary role in students' lives, the best way to connect with students in the classroom, is to incorporate technology into some part of the lesson. I believe that

Many problems seem almost impossible without them. Technology is also very useful to students in foreign language education, distance education, and for helping students with special needs.

The popularity of technology is growing larger and faster than ever. The problem is, we may never be able to catch up to it. The young adolescent adults seemed to be more interested in technology. Some experts claim that it does more harm than value. In terms of education, technology is becoming more and more popular and used among many school districts, although this can come with complications and allows students to ease threw assignments without having to fix their own problems. Also, technology can affect teenagers social abilities and let strangers have access to personal information.

With all the students having a difficulty in coping with their lessons, Mother tongue-based multilingual education may be helpful or not in solving this problem.

There is no doubt that technology has advanced tremendously in the last half-century. Technology has provided extraordinary improvements to our world; being an endless source of entertainment and nonstop communication anywhere at any time. But are these technological advancements a good thing? The youth of today are constantly immersed in these technological advancements whether through cell phones, gaming systems, or laptops. As technology continues to advance it is negatively affecting our health, communication skills, and the education of youth.