The Use Of Technology In Education

Technology has changed our world in many ways such as creating new business innovations, developing education sectors, and changing our society. We can say that now we are living in a technologically civilized society where almost everything used involved technology. Consequently, many people have expressed their question that are we too dependent on technology? Have we look at the downside of it? I think we misunderstand the purpose of technology. We are selfish and we take advantage of its convenience, instead of using its benefits in properly. Business innovation, technology has influenced the way we perform our businesses. Most companies are conducted over computers or communication devices, making information travel faster, easier, and …show more content…
According to Prince (2013), New Survey Findings Report on How Educational Technology is Being Used in Classroom, 74% of people who took the survey responded that technology helps them to expand learning content, 74% of them agreed that technology can encourage students to learn, 73% agreed technology has various learning styles, and 69% responded that visual education technology enhance teaching in different ways than before. Moreover, technology is an open educational resource which we can learn, search, and share information wherever we want (Prince, 2013). Not only that, referring to the article Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning, technology provides a variety of tools in supporting both teaching and learning such as electronic grade books, real-time feedback between teacher and students, assign homework, exchange academic information, etc (Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning). According to Pappas (2013), Top 10 e-Learning Statistics for 2014 You Need To Know, technology has created modern education, like e-Learning. It provides learners more impressive, effective, and new learning experience. Today, approximately 46% of college students are taking one course online. In addition, by 2019 around 50% of college classes will be e-Learning based (Pappas, …show more content…
It enhances the way we interact and communicate with each other via varieties of electronic medias such as internet, televisions, radios, and social medias. These have improved the way we exchange ideas that can develop our societies. Regarding to the article Social Media Update 2014, 58% of American adults are using Facebook, 23% are using LinkedIn, 22% are using Pinterest, 21% are using Instragram, and 19% are using Twitter. The technology helps us to build new relationships and keep in touch with our friends. Furthermore, it makes our communication easier and cheaper. We can talk and see each other without travelling (Social Media Update 2014). In addition, technology also keeps us up to date what is going on around the world. For example, last week on April 25, 2015, there was an earthquake in Nepal which killed more than 4,000 people. One of them was Dan Fredinburg, Google Executive who headed privacy for Google X and led its product management