Reflection 9

REFLECTION # 9 – THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS

I remember when I was a student in the elementary school. We had to search the issues given by the teacher in libraries, encyclopedias, and a infinite number of book and magazines. Even the teacher had to make a research in order to minister the class and be prepared to assist the students and answer the questions that arrived.
But the things, the times have been changed. Nowadays, the technology just showed up to make the things work out on an easy way. There is nothing that the teachers cannot explore in seconds. In a spur of moment, images, information, animated images and a lot of stuff just show up to help the teacher and the students in the development of the process of education. It’s impossible to imagine ourselves living without things like cable TV, and the fast data from the internet. And people always seek for more alternatives in life, to improve the quality of life. And the peacock tail feathers, the possibilities are growing up before our eyes, everyday.
And for the sake of the educational process, the access of some data is limited for students. It means, some information is available only for the teachers and educational organizations, and it has a good reason. Many students, happily not all of them, try to cut and paste the information they have access, without putting them under quotation. It is called plagiarism, and it is a wrong and dishonest way to “learn” something. By using the resources of the technology, teachers easily find the work of plagiarism with almost no margin of error.
Every school should equip itself with technology. It is time to take some advantage of this resource and to equip our schools in order to improve and enlarge the ways of better education and instruction.
And it should be quickly, for there are teacher that don’t accept students work if they don’t do it and present it electronically, and through the way where they can verify if the research was plagiarized or not.
Well, technology is arrived and works strongly around. Let’s make it work out in our lives.