Technology and education [Has helped students or not?]
Since technology came, we humans have so much relied on it for every one of our day-to-day activities, but has technology helped students in any way? YES AND NO.
YES, because so many schools now run online programs for those who can't visit the school campus, also it has helped even high school students in school projects and research, students now have easy access to the internet to search for whats ever they want, be it good or bad. Technology has helped a lot of schools With database recordings and to keep track of daily things they want to be recorded.
And NO because technology has made many students and teachers lazy to a point, well I can't say if it the primary level they missed instilling some basic knowledge on students or high school level, you might be wondering why I brought this topic here. Well here's my reason
I happen to visit the home of a friend yesterday, cause I wanted to get some information from her, for some days now I have been having issues with charging my phone, so that day I didn't take my phone out with me I left it with my husband who does phone repairs, at a point into our discussion with the lady,I knew it would be almost time to leave , so i could go pick my son from school, so I asked my friend for the time, she checked her phone but she then said her phone time wasn't updated, she called her eldest daughter who just finished high school and had just written the SSCE examination, she asked her to check the wall clock in her room for the time, the girl went but didn't come out until the mom shouted her name, after she came out ,she told the mom that she didn't understand the wall clock 😮at that moment i was like okay go and remove the clock and bring it let me see, after she had brought it, i looked at thee time and i was it was around 3:35pm whereabout,i said okay, so that the mum wouldn't feel as if i was making jest of her. So I told the girl the time and she was like okay, that she doesn't usually check the wall clock but rather the one on her phone, that she has doesn't really know how to tell the time from the wall clock , 😮. To say I was shocked would be an understatement,I just told the mom to teach her, and mom was angry and asked her what she had been learning in school. I was perplexed, seriously I have never heard of anyone not knowing how to tell the time.
Would I call this the fault of the school?, the mom?, or technology?. Has technology helped us in teaching kids?
Let me know your thoughts on this
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