Republic of the Philippines

Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING
Guang-guang, Dahican, City of Mati, Davao Oriental, 8200

Name: Flora Vel M. Magbasa Section: EDE 1

ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

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ICT offers the potential to meet the learning needs of individual students, to promote equal
opportunity, to offer learning material, and also promote interdependence of learning among learners
(Leach, Ahmed, Makalima & Power, 2005).

As the world evolved and adapt changes, a lot of new things took over the old ones causing a
lot of new beginnings as well for each individual. Traditional way of doings things has been slowly
changed but also became a comfortable way of doing stuffs for other. ICT has very strong effect in
education and it provides enormous tools for enhancing teaching and learning. There have been
many studies that have highlighted the various ways that ICT may support teaching and learning
processes in a range of disciplinary fields such as the construction of new opportunities for
interaction between students and knowledge and accessing information. ICT enable new ways
teaching and learning when used appropriately under right conditions such as suitable resources,
training and support
Allen (1997) believed that the basic skills of the future are the use of powerful technologies. The
traditional textbook can no longer fulfil the need in the rapid changing and the information-explosion
world. He asserted that the traditional teacher-centered approach makes classroom no longer an
effective system to prepare students for the realities which they face in the near future. 
But we cannot just also disregard the fact that a lot of this has been changed since the technology
emerged. But according to Albert Einstein, "We are now living in the world where technology
almost surpassed humanity. It’s worthless to mention nowadays that technology is playing a very
important role in every aspect of life. But don’t you think it is making you moron day by day." Many
believe that use of hi-tech mechanization literally hinders the steps of learning. They are largely
becoming dependent on technology for their assignments rather than using their cerebrum for the
thought process.
Example of that is the insufficient methods of teaching-With the advancement of mechanization,
teachers are not equally trained with its proper implementation. Thus learners are just using
technology instead of gaining knowledge from it. Using applied science to achieve education in the
proper way is a good thing but to transform it into an active set of skills is a matter of time. Also
there will be a misguidance of the wrong information-With the speeding development of technology,
the websites owner urges to rank their websites higher in search engines, so they only concentrate on
rankings instead of the content that they are posting.

But no matter what would be the result of this things, it only varies to individual who uses it.
Integrating ICT in the field of education has disadvantages and advantages depending on the driver
of such technology. Also change is the constant thing in this world, no matter how we tried stopping
it, it will still find its way to emerged and change the world. The thing is we must use it wisely, not
letting ourselves be eaten up with this system and use it in a proper way as we can.