How does technology positively and negatively affect learning? What might be some of the advantages and disadvantages?
Technology has both a positive and negative affect on learning, and there are several advantages and disadvantages of using technology in our learning.
There are several ways in which Technology has a positive affect on learning. First of all technology can help teach us. There are all sorts of new online classes and programs to help people learn. The advantage to this is that education becomes accessible to more people. Another way new technology can help us is all the new machines that help us learn. For example, smart boards, graphing calculators, and educational movies are all examples of ways that technology can help us learn. These machines help us learn in new ways that were not possible before. The Internet is another technological advancement that has helped our learning. Now students have access to all sorts of useful information to help them learn. Also the Internet opens up all sorts of new possibilities for people to share information easily, and get ideas from other people they may not have normally come in contact with. Therefore technology has a very positive affect on our learning.
Although, technology can have a positive affect on our learning it can also have a negative affect on it too. For example people might start to use new forms of technology as a crutch, instead of learning something new. For example, with more advanced calculators becoming more accessible it is no longer necessary to have a basic understanding of math. Also, spelling and grammar check on computers make it so you no longer have to know how to spell correctly either. New machines that can translate languages are another example of where new technology can make it so we do not have to learn as much. This could be a disadvantage because as people become more dependent on tools, they are less likely to be able to do something by his or her self.
Technology in learning has several advantages and disadvantages that make it have both a positive and negative affect on learning. It is important to use technology to help us learn, but not to the point where it becomes a crutch and we become lazy.
