Technology: Boon or Bane?

Lesson 2

Prepared byBrijida Charizma A. Navarro

Objective

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Technologyisin

ourhands.

WE CAN USE IT TO BUILD OR DESTROY

Activity

• Read paragraph on page 21

Study the following

pictures

Analysis

• What blessings did technology

bring?

• What problems did technology

likewise bring?

• Is technology good or bad?

Abstraction

• Technology is blessing for man.

Abstraction

• When not used properly,

technology becomes a

detriment to learning and

development

• It can destroy relationship

In education….• Technology is bane when:

- the learner is made to accept

as Gospel truth information they

get from the Internet

-the learner surfs the Net for

pornography

• the learner has an uncritical

mind on images floating on TV

and computers that represent

modernity and progress

In education….

- the TV makes the learner a

mere spectator not an active

participant in the drama of life

- the learner gets clued to his

computer for computer-assisted

instruction unmindful of the

world and so fails to develop

the ability to related to others

- We make use of the Internet to

do character assassination of

people whom we hardly like

- Because of our cellphone, we

spend most of our time in the

classroom or in the workplace

merely texting

- We overuse TV or film viewing

as strategy to kill time

Is

technology

boon or

bane?

Application

• Let us all refer on page 26

Technology as Boon

Technology as Bane

1

2

3

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

Sum Up

• Technology contributes much to

the improvement of the

teaching-learning process a to

the humanization of life.

• A blessing, that when not used

properly, is a detriment to

instruction and human

progress.

Sum Up

• Technology is made for man

and not man for technology.

• We, teachers, will decide how

to use it

• Interactive and meaningful

learning

• Develop creative and critical

thinking

• Develop and nurture teamwork

• Efficient and effective teaching

Online reference

• http://www.voki.com/Voki_for_e

ducation.php