Techonolgy Is Boon or Bane?
Teaching Through Technology : Boon or Bane
Today we live in the age of took themselves to be intelligent read the information technology. Undoubtedly, assigned text. However, the axis has shifted technology has crept in almost all walks of in modern times and teaching today has life. The field of education is no exception. In become learner centered. Nevertheless, the first half of the twentieth century, the competent and efficient teachers are the back- industrial revolution brought transformation bone of any institution. It is a teacher who in every field. Time is a witness to the changes has a special responsibility of awakening the shaping from slate, blackboard, chalk to the creative sensibility of the learner as well as use of various electronic and digital devices to formulate different methods so as to impart of mass media. The century saw not only the quality education. It is said that teachers have explosion of population but also the explosion the potential to make or mar the nation. of knowledge and technology. Whereas the
Before I take up this discussion population explosion highlighted the further, it is important to understand the interdependence of people of the world, the nature of instructional material that electronic revolution completely reshaped old technology provides. Ellington (1987) has notions of education. Since then, technology classified it into seven categories: in education has been functioning at three
(a) Printed and duplicated materials; levels: (b) Non-projected display materials;
(a) Preservation of knowledge (in
(c ) Still projected display materials; forms of books; audio and
(d) Audio materials; visual recordings and so on)
(e) Linked audio with still visual
(b) Transmission of knowledge materials; (role of radio, television, video
(f ) Cine and video materials; conferencing, internet and the
(g) Computer-mediated materials. like) Broadly seen, Ellington’s
(c) Advancement
Today we live in the age of took themselves to be intelligent read the information technology. Undoubtedly, assigned text. However, the axis has shifted technology has crept in almost all walks of in modern times and teaching today has life. The field of education is no exception. In become learner centered. Nevertheless, the first half of the twentieth century, the competent and efficient teachers are the back- industrial revolution brought transformation bone of any institution. It is a teacher who in every field. Time is a witness to the changes has a special responsibility of awakening the shaping from slate, blackboard, chalk to the creative sensibility of the learner as well as use of various electronic and digital devices to formulate different methods so as to impart of mass media. The century saw not only the quality education. It is said that teachers have explosion of population but also the explosion the potential to make or mar the nation. of knowledge and technology. Whereas the
Before I take up this discussion population explosion highlighted the further, it is important to understand the interdependence of people of the world, the nature of instructional material that electronic revolution completely reshaped old technology provides. Ellington (1987) has notions of education. Since then, technology classified it into seven categories: in education has been functioning at three
(a) Printed and duplicated materials; levels: (b) Non-projected display materials;
(a) Preservation of knowledge (in
(c ) Still projected display materials; forms of books; audio and
(d) Audio materials; visual recordings and so on)
(e) Linked audio with still visual
(b) Transmission of knowledge materials; (role of radio, television, video
(f ) Cine and video materials; conferencing, internet and the
(g) Computer-mediated materials. like) Broadly seen, Ellington’s
(c) Advancement
References: Maclchose and Co. Ltd., 1989. Himalaya publishing House, 1982. V. 12 (Fall 1996) p. 76-84.