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101 19- Technology is advancing at a rate faster than ever before and is revolutionizing many fields. In your opinion how can technology help education? What’s your opinion? Use specific reasons to support your opinion. The best method for improving educational standards is to utilize every tool
available, including state-of-the-art technology. Computers and the Internet have
expanded the way in which information can be delivered to the students of today.
Today's networking technologies provide a valuable opportunity to practice new
learning techniques. Educators are discovering that computers are facilitating
learning. Computer-based communications, or telecommunications, can offer
many educational opportunities; therefore, educators will need to adapt current
teaching methods to incorporate this new media into the classroom.
Computers have made a fundamental impact in most industries, providing a
competitive advantage that has come to be essential to many businesses.
Therefore, schools must also use technology to improve the educational process.
School systems often consider purchasing a computer network, and justify its
purchase by applying it to routine administrative tasks, such as attendance
records and grading. While these tasks are very important, they only show a
small part of what technology can do for a school. Technology must go further
than simply keeping attendance; it must focus on keeping students interested and
productive.
It is currently possible to engage in "distance education through the Internet.
Since computers and the Internet have expanded in such a way in which
education can be delivered to students living far away from education centers,
Distance education involves audio and video links between teachers and
students in remote areas. Video conferencing allows groups to communicate with
each other. Desktop video conferencing promises to bring students together from
geographic and cultural distances, face to face via computer. Not only will the
teacher talk to the students, but the students will be able to interact with each
other. This will make students more interested and fascinated with learning.
In conclusion I believe educational boards should be open to any new idea that
technology has to offer. It would not be fair for a student in a particular city to
receive a better education than another student in a different city. Technology is
not meant to replace teachers, but is there to serve students to make tedious
tasks easier.
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Essay Practice Many believe trying to preserve traditional customs and skills is unnecessary in the
modern technological world; others disagree and call for the preservation of such
customs and traditions.
Discuss both these views and give your opinion.