Lesson 2

Technology: Boon or Bane?

Technology is in our hands. We can use it to build or destroy.

"Is Technology a Boon or Bane?"

Stated more simply is it: 

• A Blessing or a Curse?
• A Blessing or s Detriment to a person's development?

Technology is BOON

Technology is a blessing for man. With technology , there is a lot that we can do which we could not do then. 

With cellphones, webcam, you will be closer to someone miles and miles away.

Just think of many human lives saved because of speedy notifications via cellphones.

Just think of how your teaching and learning have become more novel, stimulating, exciting, fresh and engaging with the use of multimedia in the classroom.

With your TV, you can watch events as they happen all over the globe.

Technology is BANE 

When not used properly, technology becomes a detriment to learning and development.

   

It can destroy relationships.

Think of the husband who is glued to TV unmindful of his wife seeking his attention.

This may erode  marital relationship.

Think of the student who surfs the Internet for pornographic scenes.

He will have trouble with his development. 

In education, technology is bane when:

• The learner is made to accept as Gospel truth information they get from the Internet
• The learner surfs the Internet for pornography
• The learner has an uncritical mind on images floating on televisions and computers that represents modernity and process
• The TV makes the learner a mere spectator not an active participant in the drama of life
• The learner gets glued to his computer for computer- assisted instruction unmindful of the world and so fails to develop the ability to relate to others
• We use overuse and abuse TV or film viewing as a strategy to kill time.   

Is technology boon or bane to education? It depends on how we use technology. If we use it to help our students and teachers become caring, relating, thinking, reflecting and analyzing and feeling begins, then it is boon, a blessing. But if we abuse and misuse it and so contribute to our ruin and downfall and those of other persons, it becomes a bane.