Theo Riady Al Assegaf 3

SYNTHESIZING ESSAY

GETTING CLOSER TO TECHNOLOGY

Using the new technology in education has become a center point of many researches and studies. Modern education has to combine with modern technology to come up with best results. The teacher and the student both can use the technology to enhance the teaching and learning strategies. On the other hand, many people are worried of the possible harmful effects of using technology in the classroom or at home. Will children lose their ability to relate to other people? Will they become dependent on technology to learn? Will they find inappropriate materials? The same was probably said with the invention of the printing press, radio, and television. All of these can be used inappropriately, but all of them have given humanity unlimited access to information which can be turned into knowledge. Appropriately used- interactively and with guidance- they have become tools for the development of higher order thinking skills. I recently read two example of these types of writing: the benefits of technology and the disadvantage of technology.

The first I read is the disadvantage about technology, it's about the affects of the technology in the work life, although it is certain the technology makes that our work becomes something easy and don't unite heavy task as everybody thinks, but the problem is the need to be able to use these means a preparation or inclusive an entire advanced study and in some cases the companies have opted to change the whole production system for you scheme which carry out the work of some more employees quickly, these employees they are replaced for these you scheme then when not possessing the study or preparation for the manipulation of these they cannot work generating this way unemployment which affects the families of this people. Another of the cases of the technology affects the human being is in the family environment, many of the parents opt to buy to children video games and this type of apparatuses for maintain busy your children by the way time, the problem is when not being regulated the time that the boy spends with the video game, they prefer to play and this way the times of family communion become every smaller time. Another of the cases is that with the easiness of the nets and the internet the parents are taken more work of the bill for their house, and they don't worry about the time that they sacrifice that their works absorb them, you give uniting likewise at their families and their time of rest.

The second essay I came across is writing about the benefit of technology. In this essay the writers say, TV the invention that helps us to get useful information in easiest way.” I think, the most important advantage of television is that it is a huge source of informations, knowledge and entertainment.” (wojtas Dodano, 2003). Although TV is not a new invention, people try to find many new ways to use it as a communication tool. Some of the TV’s benefits that it may help the learners in different ways. For example, the learner of English Language -or any other language- can find a collection of programs, movies, series, documentary and educated programs and channels that they can use to learn the language they want. Moreover, TV is an easy, cheap, and available tool to communicate with all over the world and know the latest news anytime anywhere. To focus more on language learning, TV can help in many ways. For example, the learner can watch the movie while reading the subtitles, or watch a simple language program to strengthen the listening skills. TV can also present many different shows, not only entertainment, but also News, documentary programs, educated programs, historical and scientific movies. Secondly, the internet, which become the most popular technology these days. It can be consider as the “best” way to keep in touch with friends from all countries over the world. In other words, the internet makes our earth as a small village. It actually has so many benefits; we can mention here the use to search for information and data for academic purposes. Students can always use the internet to get more information for their researches. It also became a popular way to communicate, you can send emails, use chat, voice chat, or even video chat with your friends and family. If we take a closer look, internet is playing an essential role in education nowadays. In his article, Muthukumar said that the Internet is a complex storage area containing a huge maze of information from a variety of sources. It has become a famous source of information for many people worldwide. The Internet wave has also hit the educational landscape in many big ways. The use of technologies such as the Internet as a teaching tool in schools is not the issue now since it is pervasively used. Relatively, the issue is how to effectively employ such technologies and harness fully the new opportunities created by them to promote positive student learning experiences.

I can say that the technology helps us a lot in our live, it help us to communicate, to shorten distances and to have a good time but if the sufficiently responsible thing is not been, it could generate more problems of than it solves and it is here where we should consider and to control the time that we spend or we use with the technological devices because we should offer that these are an useful tool of which we can take out a lot of benefit and not an instrument that restricts our life and it causes him uneasiness.