Education & Technology

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While I was looking for some educational quotes, I was attracted by this one. Nowadays, at a time technology overwhelms the whole world and all fields of work and entertainment. We found ourselves as teachers affected greatly by it.

It occupies all homes, and students in general are highly influenced by it -mostly negatively- because they usually have the wrong choices in choosing how to use technology.  Although some teachers try to help and guide students to be wise in their choices in using the internet as an aspect of technology but students do not recognise the good aspects  and they are not interested in technology related to education.

Either if a person is a fan of technology or not, and even if the ultimate goal of the teacher is to teach for understanding using different learning methods but still the technology have a big role in being a part of these methods. Since students like technology in its all aspects as programs, software and resources (laptops, cameras, phones...) they would be feel that learning is more interesting when they use these resources in schools. so as teacheres we have to be wise in choosing the good resource, program and time and should know more about how to integrate technology in our teaching.

Mouse-mischief, bloggers, powerpoint presentations, microsoft  office, internet, webquests... are all technological programs and software that can be used effectively in class with students and never to forget that we can also give the opportunity for students to show us how they can use this technology in their education.

Technology is effective if used appropriately. So for all readers, whether teachers, students, parents or any... Be wise in your choices in using technology. Try to control it rather than making it control you.