Lesson 2 

Technology: Boon or Bane?

Boon - is a  thing that is beneficial or useful. It is called

            "Advantage".

Bane - it is curse or destruction. It is also called

            "Disadvantage."

In education, technology is boon when:

   - Technology is a blessing for man.

   - With technology, there is a lot that we can do which we could not
      do then.

   - Technology contributes much to the improvement of the teaching -

      learning progress and to the humanization of life.

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

      miles away.

   - Many human lives saved because of speedy notifications via

      cellphones.

   - Your teaching and learning have become more novel, stimulating, 

      exciting fresh and engaging with the use of multimedia in the

      classroom.

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 the images floating on

      televisions and computers that represent modernity and progress.

   - The TV makes the learner a mere spectator not an

      active participant in the drama life.

   - The learners get glued to his computer for computer assisted

      instructions unmindful of the world and so fails to develop the

      ability to relate others.

   - We make use of the internet to do character assassination of

      people whom we hardly like.

   - Because of our cell phone, we spend most of our time in the

      classroom or in our workplace texting.

   - We overuse and abuse TV or film viewing as a strategy to kill time.

       Let’s go back to the question asked at the beginning of this lesson. Is technology boon or bane to education? It depends on how we used technology. If we use it to help our students and teachers become caring, relating, thinking, reflecting, and analyzing and feeling beings, then it is a 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 or a curse.

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