This document discusses the relationship between technology and education. It can be analyzed from multiple perspectives, such as whether technology is more of a boon or bane to learning. While technology enables communication over long distances and engaging lessons, it also poses risks if overused or used improperly, such as replacing face-to-face interaction or distracting from schoolwork. The document provides examples of both blessings and problems caused by technology and suggests it depends on how it is utilized within the educational context.

2. Objectives:
 Reflect on whether technology is a boon or
bane to education; or a blessing or a curse to
education.
 Analyze the messages of comic strips/
photographs and discuss the relationship of
technology to learning and life
 List examples on how technology can be a
blessing or a course to mankind

3. Group 1

4. Group 2
 “Using a lot of high-tech gear to
communicate at home is a poor proxy for
face to face communication and sees
omnipresent technological ties as
threatening to intimacy”

5.  “Typing to each other instead of talking
to each other can only lead to problems
down the road, such as teens using
email to deceive parents about their
activities”

6.  “My wife and I talk more throughout the
day because of instant messaging. My
communication with far-flung relatives is
very much enriched by it.”

7.  “My wife and I talk more throughout the
day because of instant messaging. My
communication with far-flung relatives is
very much enriched by it.”

8.  “I thought our marital relationship would
suffer when I left my wife for a
consultancy job abroad for eighteen
months. Email massages made us more
aware, more accepting, and more
communicative”

9.  “How can computerized
communication, in place of face-to-face
family communication and hugs, deepen
dialogue?”

13.  What blessings did technology bring?
 What problems did technology likewise
bring?
 Is technology good or bad?

14. Technology is a blessing for man.
With technology there is a lot that we can do
which we could not do then.
 With cell phones, webcams, you will be
closer to someone miles and miles away.

15.  Many human lives saved because of
speedy notifications via cell phones

16.  Teaching and learning have become
more novel, stimulating, exciting, fresh
and engaging with the use of multimedia
in the classroom.

17.  With your TV, you can watch events as
they happen all over the globe.

18.  A student can defend his dissertation
with one member of the panel from other
country interrogating him through
teleconference

19.  Technology becomes a detriment to learning
and development if not used properly
 It can destroy relationships.
 Think of the husband who is glued on TV
unmindful of his wife seeking his attention.
This may eventually erode marital
relationship.

20.  Think of a student who surfs the
internet for pornographic scenes.
 He will have trouble with his
development.

21.  The teacher who schedules class TV
viewing for the whole hour to free herself
from a one-hour teaching and so can
engage in “tsismis”, likewise will not
benefit from technology. Neither will her
class truly benefit from the whole period
of TV viewing.

22. In education, technology is bane when:
 The learner is made to accept as Gospel
truth the information they get from the
internet

23.  The learner surfs the internet for
pornography

24.  The learner has uncritical mind on
images floating on televisions and
computers that represent modernity and
progress

25.  The TV makes the learner a mere
spectator not an active participant in the
drama of life.

26.  The learner gets glued to his computer
for his computer-assisted instruction
unmindful of the world and so fails to
develop the ability to relate to others

27.  We make use of the internet to do
character assassination of people whom
we hardly like

28.  Because of our cell phone, we spend
most of our time in the classroom or in
our workplace texting

29.  We use overuse and abuse TV or film
viewing as a strategy to kill time

30.  Technology is made for man and not man for
technology. Technology is made for the
teacher and not teacher for technology. This
means that technology is meant to serve
man in all aspect of life including instruction.
It is man, and in the context of the
classroom, the teacher, who determines how
technology ought to be used in order to reap
the maximum benefits that come along with
technology.

31. The integration of technology in the
instructional process must be geared
towards:
 Interactive and meaningful learning
 The development of creative and critical
thinking
 The development and nurturing of
teamwork
 Efficient and effective teaching

32. Essay:
1. State how the technology becomes a
blessing or curse in your studies.
2. State how the technology becomes a
blessing or curse in regards to your
relationship with your family and other
people.

33. End of report
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