The document discusses the relationship between technology and humanism. It explains that while technology can benefit education, there is also a threat that overdependence on technology could destroy quality of life and society. It raises questions about whether technology dehumanizes people and how humanism can be maintained as technology advances. The document advocates finding a balance between technology and humanism.

1. Technology and Humanism
Technology comes from a latin
word teknologia w/c means
systematic treatment or craft.

2. Objectives :
•Explain how technology could be a boon
or bane; and
•Point ways on how to increase humanism
while using technology

3. What is Humanism?
•a philosophical and ethical stance that
emphasizes the value and agency of human
beings, individually and collectively, and
generally prefers critical thinking and
evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over
established doctrine or faith.

4. Technology in Education
• Video cameras
•Compact discs
•Computers
•Chalkboards
•Overheard projectors/ LCD, etc..

5. Threat on technology
• A dilemma is at hand. While there is
overdependence of life in the advanced
industrial countries on technology, there is a
threat that the same tech will destroy the
quality of life in modern society and endanger
society itself.

6. EXAMPLES ARE:

7. Technological Industries

8. Internet Crimes

9. Negative Effects to the Environment

10. Communication Gaps

11. Television Violence and Falsity

12. • “We shape our tools and thereafter
they shape us.”
- John M. Culkin-

13. Questions arise like :
• What has man, who is the
author of technology, done
to his fellowmen?
• Is technology bound to
create and then later
destroy?
• Is technology a blessing or
a curse?
• A form of exploitation of
human beings? And
• Is technology
dehumanizing man?

14. Technology and Education
The ordinary classroom is a potential place
where technology and the issue of humanism
could across.
Now........

15. Does technology really dehumanize
us?
How can we maintain HUMANISM at this
technology stage?