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Teaching Strategy
Technology has been over-
associated with 21st century
teaching and learning processes.
Having LED TVs and LCD
projectors inside classrooms
became the norm.
Technology has been the greatest change that we
have seen in education. Several policies, whether in
the government or private sectors, had been
forwarded to ensure that classrooms are infused
with at least basic technologies.
The learners of today have been branded with
several names such as digital natives, where they
are born with the intellectual capacity to go over
technologies even with simple exposure because it
is a part of their lives, and tech-savvy for they are
more proficient in using technologies compared to
the older generations.
To fully understand the nature and limitations of technology in the classroom,
here are the advantages and disadvantages of technology in the classroom:
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
1. Using technology in the classroom 1. Technology in the classroom can
allows you to experiment more in be a distraction.
pedagogy and get instant feedback.
2. Technology in the classroom helps 2. Technology can disconnect
ensure full participation. students from social interactions.
3. There are countless resources for 3. Technology can foster cheating in
enhancing education and making class and on assignments.
learning more fun and effective.
4. Technology can automate many of 4. Students don’t have equal access
your tedious tasks. to technological resources.
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
5. With technology in the 5. The quality of research and
classroom, your students have sources they find may not be top-
instant access to fresh notch.
information that can supplement
their learning experience.
6. We live in a digital world, and 6. Lesson planning might become
technology is a life skill. more labor-intensive with
technology.
Application for Teaching
In the contemporary educational milieu,
many innovations were created to make
educational technology accessible to both
teachers and learners. Here are some of the
applications that you can use in your
classroom.
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
Reading Eggs Reading eggs is a multi-awarded application that
-Learn to Read helps children to read.