Education is the process of aquiring of knowledge and understanding and these is acquired through studying and training. As we see worldwide more and more people are becoming more and more aware of the importance of Education.
Recently i read through Maulana Wahidudeen Khan Importance of Education and this is what he said, (The importance of education is quite clear. Education is the knowledge of putting one's potentials to maximum use. One can safely say that a human being is not in the proper sense till he is educated.
This importance of education is basically for two reasons. The first is that the training of a human mind is not complete without education. Education makes man a right thinker. It tells man how to think and how to make decision.
The second reason for the importance of education is that only through the attainment of education, man is enabled to receive information from the external world; to acquaint himself with past history and receive all necessary information regarding the present. Without education, man is as though in a closed room and with education he finds himself in a room with all its windows open towards outside world).
Technology has really changed the way of Education as it used to be. I will say that it has changed it for both, the better and the worse.
Better
- Kids do not have to spend a lot of time doing tedious tasks
Graphing parabolas - Concepts can be brought to life
3-D computer modeling - Information can be accessed in a faster amount of time
- In Math:
With graphing calculators students can, “Do more”
In Physics:
Can have new labs that model motion, waves, etc…
In English:
Student can write more - There is a lot more data available at people’s fingertips.
- Students can take classes from remote sites. They don’t have to miss out on educational opportunities because of living in a remote area.
- Allows students quick access to information.
- Brings authentic experiences to the classroom, such as the use of telecommunications devices to create a virtual field trip to a zoo or a museum that would otherwise be impossible.
Worse
- Kids cannot deal with fractions without using a calculator.
- Not all information is factual.
- Student rely too much on the technology, such as spell checkers.
- Sometimes technology is thrown into the curriculum, just because it is new technology, which may impede the learning process.
- whole field of technology critics has been created as a result of bringing technology into the schools.
