LEYTE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

SAN ISIDRO CAMPUS

TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES

MODULE NO. 2
TECHNOLOGY: BOON OR BANE?

Name: ________________________________ Score:

____________

Instructor: _____________________________ Date: ____________

Learning Outcome:
 Develop an argument for technology as boon or technology as bane.

Focus Questions:
 Is technology boon or bane?

I. ANALYSIS
1. Study these comic strips. Find out what it depicts about the consequence of
the use of technology on relationships, learning and life. Write in a brief
paragraph your opinion/observations.
 2. What blessings did technology bring?
3. What problems did technology likewise bring?
4. Is technology good or bad?

II. ABSTRACTION

TECHNOLOGY: BOON OR BANE?

Technology is a blessing for man. With technology, there is a lot that we can
do which we could not do then. With cellphones, webcam, you will be closer to
someone miles and miles away. So far yet so close! That is your feeling when you
talk through a cellphone to a beloved who s far away from home. Just think of the
many human lives saved because of speedy notifications via cellphones. Just think
of how your teaching and learning have become more novel, stimulating, exciting,
fresh and engaging with the use of multimedia in the classroom. With your tv, you
can watch events as they happen all over the globe.
However, when not used properly, technology becomes a detriment to
learning and development. It can destroy relationships. Think of the husband who is
glued to tv unmindful of his wife seeking his attention. This may eventually erode
marital relationships. Think of the student who surfs the internet for pornographic
scenes. He/She will have trouble with his/her development. The abuse and misuse
of the internet will have far reaching unfavorable effects on his/her moral life. The
teacher who schedules class tv viewing for the whole hour to free himself/herself
from one-hour teaching and so can engage in “tsismis”, likewise will not benefit from
technology. Neither will his/her class truly benefit from the whole period of tv viewing.
In education, technology is bane when:
 The learner is made to accept as Gospel truth information they get
from internet.
 The learner surfs the internet for pornography.
 The learner has an uncritical mind on images floating on televisions
and computers that represents modernity and progress.
 The tv makes the learner a mere spectator not an active participant in
the drama of life.
 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.
 We make use of the internet to do character assassination of people
whom we don’t like.
 Because of our cellphone, we spend most of our time in the classroom
or in our workplace texting.
 We use, overuse and abuse tv or film viewing as a strategy to kill time.
 Technology contributes much to the improvement of the teaching-learning
process and to the humanization of life. It is indeed a blessing. But when not used
properly it becomes a detriment to instruction and human progress and
development.
Technology is made for man and not man for technology.
Technology is made for the teacher and not the teacher for technology.
This means that technology is meant to serve man in all aspects of life including
instruction. It is man, and in the context of the classroom, the teacher, who
determines how technology ought to be used in order to reap the maximum benefits
that come along with it.
The integration of technology in the instructional process must be geared
towards:
 Interactive and meaningful learning;
 The development of creative and critical thinking;
 The development and nurturing of teamwork, and
 Efficient and effective teaching.
Let’s go back to the question asked at the beginning of this lesson. Is
technology boon or bane to education? It depends on how we use technology. If we
use it to help our students and teachers become caring, relating, thinking, reflecting
and analyzing and feeling beings, then it is a boon, a blessing. But if we abuse and
misuse it and so contribute to our ruin and downfall, and of those of other persons, it
becomes a bane or a curse.

III. APPLICATION

A. Explain in a brief, concise and meaningful manner the following quotations.

1. “Technology or perish.” – John R. Pierce

2. “All our technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the
hand
of the pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
3. “If there is a technological advance without social advance, there is, almost
automatically, an increase in human misery. – Michael Harrington.
B. Can technology take the place of the teacher in the classroom? Discuss your
point
of view directly.

IV. ASSESSMENT

Recall computer applications that you learned from your basic computer courses.
How are you applying them now in your studies?
Do an act of service. Find out how your computer applications can help a teacher
who is not yet computer literate. She may be your mother or sister or friend. Send
me a narration on how you did it with pictures as my mode of verification.

ENJOY LEARNING AND BE SAFE!!!