Technology: Boon or Bane?

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

Technology as Boon
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 teaching-learning process and to the
humanization of life.
With cell phones, web cams you will be closer to someone miles and miles away.
Many human lives saved because of speedy notifications via cell phones.
Your teaching and learning can be more novel, stimulating, exciting engaging with
the use of multimedia in the classroom.
With TV, you can watch events as they happen all over the globe.

Technology as Bane
1. The learner is made to accept as Gospel truth information they get from the Internet.
2. The learner surfs the internet for pornography
3. The learner has an uncritical mind on images floating on televisions and computers that
represent modernity and progress
4. The TV makes the learner a mere spectator not an active participant in the drama of life.
5. 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.
6. We make use of the Internet to do character assassination of people whom we hardly like
7. Because of our cell phone, we spend most of our time in the classroom or in our
workplace texting
8. We use overuse and abuse TV or film viewing as a strategy to kill time.

Technology is made for man and not man for technology. Technology is made for the teacher
and not the teacher for technology.