The document discusses whether technology is a boon or bane. It notes that technology can be used to both build up and destroy. While technology can enhance teaching and learning, as well as connect people over long distances, it can also be detrimental if not used properly. Specifically, overuse of the internet, cellphones, television and other technologies can damage relationships and learning if it replaces direct interaction and critical thinking. The document provides examples of both the positive and negative impacts of technology on education and relationships.

1. Technology:
Boon
or Bane
“Technology is in our hands. We
can use it to build or destroy”

2. “Is Technology a BOON
or BANE?”
Stated more simply is it:
• A BLESSING or a CURSE?
• A BLESSING or a DETRIMENT
to a person’s development?

3. TECHNOLOGY
IS
BOON

4. Technology is a blessing
for a man. With
technology there is a lot
that we can do which
we could not do then.
Technology contributes
much to the
improvement of the
teaching- learning
process and to the
humanization of life.

5. With cellphones, web cams you
will be closer to someone miles
and miles a way.
Many human lives saved
because of speedy notifications
via cell phones.
Your teaching and learning can
be more novel, stimulating,
exciting engaging with the use
of multimedia in the classroom.
With TV, you can watch events
as they happen all over the
globe.

6. TECHNOLOGY
is
Bane

7. When not used properly,
technology becomes a
detriment to learning and
development.
Examples:
 It can destroy relationships.
 Erode marital relationship.

8. 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 Internet for
pornography
The learner has a uncritical mind on images
floating on televisions and computers that
represent modernity and progress

9. The TV makes the learner a mere
spectator not an active participant in the
drama of life.
The learner gets glued to his computer
for computer assisted instruction
unmindful of the world and so fails to
develop the ability to relate to others.
We make use of the Internet to do
character assassination of people whom
we hardly like.

10. Because of our cell phone, we spend
most of time in the classroom or in
workplace texting.
We use overuse and abuse TV or film
viewing as a strategy to kill time.

11. Thank
you!!