What are you? A pessimist?
Existence of technology and the process of imparting it into the classroom learning are both I believe a major talk of today. Gone are the days of chalk and talk as I unquote from the article in one of so many Educational magazines which I 'accidentally' found in my dad's library(credit to my dad..hehe) ‘…as well as texts and desks, predominate now as they did then’ brings about the idea of a change which children of today has the chance to experience and should be grateful of considering what their folks had had in the past. I agree with the article when it states it is the ‘societal demands’ on what children learn and the ‘explosion of knowledge’ that have been increasing throughout the years that they act as a wake up call for the researches and not to forget, the educators to embark on a journey of discovering technology and its full potential to be infused in children’s learning in any ways at whatever cost to keep up with those ‘societal demands’ and the ‘explosion of knowledge’ I must say that it heightens argument when some say the people of the good old days still manage to stand up high with their achievements with just ‘chalk and talk’ , ‘texts and desks’ ; traditional way of teaching and learning without the infusion of today’s technology which is believed to be costly. To those people, I prefer to put it this way: back then technology is something we are too far away from but not today. Technology is man’s creation; our own creation. So we have the opportunity to use it to the fullest, to every achievable possibilities we might think of and to our betterment which can prolong for the next generations to come rather than use it for other purposes.
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