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Essay on Should Technology be infused in Education?
Technology in all forms, young and old or simple and complex, can be potent tools that engage learners in meta-cognitive reflection. These tools engage learners to rethink their old beliefs, knowledge, and understandings. These tools might allow learners to compare new ideas with other individuals to assess whether new concepts and ideas are plausible and fruitful. Technologies can be educators' tools in finding creative ways that encourage students to self-test, self-question, and self-regulate learning in helping them to create solutions to complex problems.
Today, due to a binary world of quick change, educators must venture on their own creative thinking in building a lifelong mastery with technology. They must not only develop their ability to survive a very unpredictable digital information age, but also defeat the accompanying challenges. Not only is it unfavorable to blame technologies for ill-considered decisions, it is unwise (Bennett, 1999). It is also unreasonable to believe that anyone could solve many long existing educational challenges if they could only interrupt the minute-by-minute proliferation of these technologies. The need for new technologies in teaching and learning will only continue to grow stronger and faster.
With the aid of technology, many teachers can take students beyond traditional classroom limits, creating virtual environments to experiment and explore. According to Postman (1996), technology should be utilized as an object of inquiry. We should be aware of how we might use technology and also how technology uses us. Some technologies are particularly helpful because their design characteristics challenge higher order thinking and problem solving tasks; students are encouraged to explore and to learn by discovery.
Teaching students to be serious of what they research on the internet can help them to be more serious overall. I think that a best way of teaching critical evaluation of material is by having the students...........
