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I believe, as many of my colleagues have commented in their posts this week, that the introduction of technology in education is completely changing it, making it very different from the education we are all used to. As I said in my first entry, it seems to me that its introduction is a very positive thing, as it brings the topics to study closer to students’ daily lives, making it more interactive and more 'fun'.
Personally speaking, it was the quarantine which, in my opinion, showed that we are a little behind in Spain and that, to this day, we are still developing an education that is, somehow, too traditional. I think we have all found that ICTs are now an almost essential part for teaching and learning.
However, to what extent should we use it? Technology, especially the Internet, has changed our lives, opening a huge window into the world. We have access to all kinds of information in just a second, we can meet people with whom in the past we could never have had contact with, our life is no longer limited merely to what we have around us... But aren’t we criticizing their excessive use lately? We have gone from not having it, to using it, to abusing it. Sometimes, even to the point that it consumes us and creates some sort of addiction. Won’t it be the same in education? The way I see it, using technology in class is very important and brings with it very positive changes, but I have some mixed feeling about it. I feel like we are at the point where we have stopped seeing it just as a complement and a tool to use, and we are getting to the point of not understanding education without it. What I mean is that lately it seems that if you do not use technological resources in everything you teach, you are not teaching well, it seems that you can only teach and learn this way.
The past is always rejected and we tend to go to the other extreme, but are we prepared to do so? In my view, we have become so obsessed with computerising education because of the positive effects it may have and the urge of making everything innovative that we are trying to make a excessively quick and extreme change. I understand that as teachers we must learn how to introduce computer science without leaving out the rest, learn how to use it again in this context.
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