2. Excerpt from the speech of
President Fidel Ramos on 6th
SEAMEO Innotech International
Conference in Manila last
November 11-13, 1997
3. Barely a month ago, I gave a tele-address from Malacanang
to the site of 4th. National Convention of Philippine
Government Organization (GOIT). The convention was
held in Tacloban, Leyte, an island in southern Philippines
several hundred kilometers from Manila. My rather heavy
work schedule prevented me from being present at the
convention, but as a firm believer and a true disciple of true
technology as a management tool, I made that tele-
address. I spoke with participants over the airwaves and
truly felt the quality of my interaction with them was no
less meaningful and rewarding than if it had occurred in
‘real time’ and ‘real place’. I had saved valuable time, and
as a result, I was able to do more for the day. Just as
importantly, my audience and I accomplish something
valuable together.
4. …technology can be fascinating and mind-boggling in what it can do. It
can bring distant places and people together, establishing invisible but
powerful connection. It can transform societies, economics and cultures
by opening them up to other ideas and other options, raising new
expectations and creating new needs. It can release and rechannel
previously unknown or wasted energies into more productive
endeavours, allowing it users to pursue more creative goals.
But the fact remains that unless technology and all other agents and
factors of modernization are invited with human values and used for
social good, then they will be a little more than expensive toys for the
amusement of the few.
5. …for one thing, the pervasiveness of technology has created learning environment
We never imagined just a few decades ago. Learning has no more boundaries.
It is no longer confined to the school campus. The learner now acquire knowledge
Anywhere, anytime in the home, in work places, in recreation areas, in the streets,
the learner has become his or her own investigation seeking knowledge.
And the teacher? He or she is no longer the sole provider of instruction. Together
with many, many other stakeholder in education, the teacher must now provide
Learner-centered choices includes the choice of place and time where to access and
receive instruction, the choice of learning style, and the choice of channels and
Delivering systems through which learners gain knowledge.
The learner today theoretically at least, has countless choices, and the teacher must
be there to help the learner choose wisely…
6. What blessing did technology bring?
What problems did technology likewise bring?
Is technology a boon or bane? stated more
simply the advantage and disadvantage of
technology?
7. Technology is a blessing for man. There are manys
that we can do which we could not do then without
techonology.
Techonology when not used properly, it becomes a
detriment to learning and development
8. In education, technology is bane when:
1. A learner is made to accept as gospel truth information
they get from the internet.
2. The learner surfs the internet for pornography
3. The learner has an uncritical mind on images floating on televisions
and computer that represents modernity and progress
9. 4. The television makes the learner a mere spectator not as an active
participant in the drama of life
5. The learner gets glued to his computer-assisted instruction unmindful
of the world and so fails to the ability to relate to others.
6. We make use of the internet to do character assassination of people
whom we hardly like.
10. 7. Because of cell phone, we spend most of our time
in the classroom or in our workplace texting
8. We had overuse and abuse tv or film viewing to kill time.
