THE USE OF

COMPUTER
IN
EDUCATIONReporter:
Jessua Duarong BEED-2
Computer in education enable us to:
• Teach more effectively. With computer, we can
individualize instruction, grant students to learn at their own
pace; rather than wait for the teacher’s personal attention.
• Reach and teach more student. Computer and internet
access can expand the educational horizons of children in
isolated rural communities, children with limited community
resources, or those children who are homebound because of
disability or illness.
• Make the world our classroom. Students with internet
access can directly tap resources in their communities or
venture beyond their neighborhoods. Student can draw from
limitless books, articles, pictures, and sound clips; follow links
to experts or virtual field trips; and participate in real-time
communication across the globe.
• Turn latchkey kids into connected
kids. Too many youngsters have no one
to talk to and are hesitant to ask
questions to adult or teacher. The
internet offers a homework helper, a
companion at the end of the school day,
or a chat room of friends, so that no one
needs to be home alone.
• Get ready for the future. Technology
encourages interdisciplinary and
collaborative work, facilitates problem-
based learning and provides an outlet for
students to express their creativity.
Students at ease with technology will be
assets to future employers.
 Computers in education disable us because:
• Effective teaching all but disappears. Good teaching requires personal
connection. A teacher gazing at a student which is gazing at a computer
screen is not teaching effectively. The internet is unmonitored, filled
with erroneous information, political propaganda and phony research.
• The digital worlds remain divided. Technology amplifies economic
disparities, awarding clear advantage to children from wealthy high-
tech homes attending wealthy high-tech schools. Poor student soon
discover technology’s unwelcome mat tripping them up at the door of
most career options.
• Student risk becoming antisocial. Too many of today’s youngsters can
surf the internet, but are unable to form personal connections. The
Internet is home to countless narrow-interest groups that fragment
society instead of unifying it.
• Computers are a health risk. Computer use is associated with increased
eyestrain, repetitive motion injury, and the obesity that comes from a
sedentary lifestyles.
• Fundamental skills are sidelined. As spelling and grammar tools correct students writing and
computer screens replace engagement with books, real learning is compromised. Tomorrow’s
workers may becomes powerless automatons
Though computers have little to
show in the way of educational
effectiveness, support for technology
in schools remain high. Most parents
and business leader believe that
computers offer essential workplace
skills an important, if non-academic
goal. The public also believes that
computer and the internet provide a
windows on the latest information
and that somehow computers make
education both more efficient and
more enjoyable.
How will the predicted changes affect education and schooling in the future?
• According to Lewis Perelman, the author of the
controversial books School’s Out (1992), There is a
strong case of education transformation. He argued that
knowledge acquisition is no longer happen only in
school; now it occurs everywhere and is lifelong. Further,
with the growth of hypermedia and networking, learning
is something that can happen anytime and everywhere.
To put it simply according to Perelman, school are no
longer needed, and so to make matters worse, they are
getting in the way of the truly necessary changes.
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