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I keep asking myself this question everyday and night, what as technology done to students? as it upgrade them or downgrade them?

NB: Everything you are going to read below is based on my own personal thoughts and opinion, not of Infomedia.ng.

 

I have read many historical books and novels about the olding days schools and I must confess that there have been great improvement with the way students understand things. Even though then, not every parents support education for their children and we know then is an era of uncivilization, but today education as proliferate due to the fact that an uneducated person is partially dead.

 

Now let’s glance through the question, what good as technology done to students?

To my own opinion, I would say technology should be rated 50/50, that is, it as done good and same time harm the students. You should be wondering how do I mean by saying harm students, you would see my fair reasons if you continue reading.

 

Below are things you need to know:

FASTNESS AND LAZINESS: I don’t want to take you far,  so let me use an example you would quickly understand. Decades ago, the only source for students to get vital information or do assignments are Libraries. Today, most of 20th century students don’t even know how library operates, they only pass through the frontage and glance at the beautiful building. Library is becoming almost a past tense for students.

 

Internet is one of the greatest technology that as ever been introduced, students could get 100% of information they need via google, this makes the library useless to some students. Internet as made students become lazy to an extend that they don’t do research except it was an assignment or project.

 

We could not deny the fact that Internet as made things easy for students. As a student, I could easily do all my assignment at my leisure time. But is that really helping me? NO is not. because it is not preparing me for the future, I would be used to doing things at my comfort that doing it at the appropriate time. I can’t start doing that as an employee and I won’t get fired.

 

TIME CONSUMING & BRING YOU CLOSER: well, technology as help most students to become socialize, using myself as an example, I have been able to perform several technological research because I love technology. I know countries with high level of technology and I could predict some countries future. All this become possible because I make use of technology the right way. No bragging, I love doing research which as helped me become more civilized in the society.

 

Unfortunately, social media as done more harm than good to students. Students would spend all their valuable times on social media without being socialize ..lol.

If you use 5hrs atleast everyday on social media and you could not even participate in an economical and political debates, ask yourself… ARE YOU SOCIALIZED?

 

The bitter truth is, if Nigerian students spend more time on the internet doing useful things, Nigeria students would have start manufacturing thing like television, radio, and even aeroplane etc. I felt ashamed when I discovered that the phone am using was designed and manufactured By student in China. So technology as helped them alot in China, I think it’s high time country like Nigeria start training students more of practical than theory. It is not we students fault sometimes, it is just that we can’t know the right until we are shown.

 

I challenge every students in the world today, let’s take advantage of technology to build our mind and career not allowing technology to use us negatively. The number of students that are involved in cyber crime keeps increasing everyday, does that mean there is no positive use of Internet for students? The internet should be another school for you not a fun house. Focus on something different on the internet, things that you might love in the future, who knows it might create external source of income for you.

 

The richest man in the world owns an e-commerce website amazon.com where people buy and sell products. Definitely he didn’t plan that when he was in school but research and positive use of technology as created him unplanned stream of income.

 

I SULAIMAN ballo,  am challenging myself that I would learn Computer programming from the internet. you could also challenge yourself today, this is the only way students could start creating jobs for themselves not necessarily waiting for the government.  I hope you find this article interesting?  let hear your opinion….

 

Sulaiman Ballo

(Dept. of information and media studies)

3 COMMENTS

  1. i must confess, this is one the best article i have read so far this year. The author should keep it up, i am sharing this now

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