The Obstacles in I.T. in Educational Practice

Nowadays, people are getting indulged through technologies. Other countries are getting much grower and richer because of their wide intelligence in accessing a technologies. It revolutionizes many of the ways we receive and use information every day. Millions of blogs, social networking sites, and interactive online games have created new modes for interaction and expression. In short, the advent of digital technology touches almost every aspect of modern life. Digital technology makes informative content easier to find, to access, to manipulate and remix, and to disseminate. All of these steps are central to teaching, scholarship, and study. Together, they constitute a dynamic process of digital learning.

In education now has a widespread in technologies especially at the learning process of the students and teachers. But in some cases, there are so many obstacles or rather hindrances in dealing with the technology in Education. Many people warn of the possible harmful effects of using technology in the classroom. As what I observed in a site that some children lose their ability to relate with others, they become dependent on technology to learn, and other questions that can affect the minds of the teachers or the parents. Yes, it can be useful but in sense that all of them have given humanity unbounded access to information which can be turned into knowledge. It should be used in a good way and have a guidance with the teachers and other elders.

In this modern year, teachers are practicing it to improve students listening, reading, writing and speaking. They search from a web resources in their curriculum and applying it in their teaching process to their learners to be enable to cooperate and be more interesting in their lessons. However, there are certain possibilities of problems in a teaching and learning process that should be solved.
One of this is that, lack of funds and a lack of professional training courses that the teachers directly need to be informed in a developments in computer technology. Example of this is when there is something happen in a software or in a hardware of a computer, the teacher should be aware on what he/she will do on that problem.
Then also, the issue of time and workload must be given an attention as the teachers avoid many important teaching tasks due to this practice.

In cooperation of the learners and the technology, it improves the interactions of the learners to other learners and can strengthens any group problems and any discussions of their certain projects or assignments but it can also be a burden to them, like laziness and cheating if learning tasks are not carefully designed.
Technology can make studying more efficient as learners spend less time commuting for other resources but sometimes students never tend to search more in other sources just like books because in an internet , it is a wide stock of words can be found in just one click.

Furthermore, students can be "plugged into computers" to do drill and practice that is not so different from workbooks. Teachers can use multimedia technology to give more colorful and stimulating lectures. It is difficult to set apart technology as a variable in good instruction, but they are finding that in the right circumstances, technology plays a positive role in enhancing academic achievement.Technology has been a powerful learning tool. With this understanding of the context for success, educational leaders can shape programs that prepare teachers to use these powerful new learning tools effectively.




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