Technology is one of the inevitable circumstance we need to face in life, whether young or aged, male or female, wherever you come from. Technology has proven to serve as a useful tool in our day- to- day human interaction in areas such as business transactions and other important uses. The main question still remains, if it wasn’t for technology today, would I be where I am academically? There are some speculations surrounding the effect of technology in education, such as its distractive effects on scholars. …show more content…
I wasn’t affected by the negative view my parents had on technology. The importance of technology became significant as I went to high school. Very few of my assignments were done with pen and paper. With the exception of technological gadgets in my life as a student, learning seemed harder than it was supposed to be. I had limited chances of carrying out independent learning, just full dependence on the classroom knowledge. My fellow peers who had these resources were able to carry out their academic task efficiently including studying …show more content…
I would blame most of it on inadequate resources such as technology and of course my ignorance together with my parents’. Since then, I have worked really hard to pay for my internet access and I bought all my technological gadgets for school. Ever since then, I have seen some improvement in my academic performance. Due to utilization of technological gadgets in my school work, I was able to carry out independent learning, work outside the classroom comfortably and gain fast, efficient and easy access to useful and important information. To sum it up, despite most of the older generation of early and mid-90s seeing technology as something bad to the society, manufacturers of computers have brought about an efficiency in education compared to the old days where everything was pen and