Before, Albert Einstein said, "It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." Today, technology is everywhere, it has revolutionized the way of learning and working, and Einstein's conclusion is more prominent than ever.
Technology has also affected humans in classroom education. Since technology has been introduced as a medium for teaching back in 1900s, it has gradually replaced the teachers and now students mostly rely on computers, television and other electronic mediums.
Due to me, computer has both good and bad uses depending on the man using this because it has no brain and life it does whatever we say it to do. It is a boon of science for someone and curse for others.
The following are the disadvantages of technology in education, particularly on the part of students.
L-A-Z-I-N-E-S-S. Since students are already relying more on working and studying in computers, they are already relying all the information in the computer. This is not good since there are some claims that computers are not reliable for the students to be learned. They are not anymore reading books and answering their homework since there are already specific answers in the computer. The students’ higher-order thinking skills to make such great ideas and conclusion may be lost.
Students forget the basic way of studying. They would no longer rely on the books that are lent by their teachers for them to study since they are already interested to study using the computer. Even simple problems and homework that they need to answer, they are more of seeking the assistance of computers already.
Discovering unusual things in the computer allowing the students to surf the internet doesn’t necessarily mean that all the things that they are going to discover are good for their mind and studies. There are several things that are found in the internet which are not good for the students. Hence, they need to be properly guided