It became a common scene of normal homes that a mother is arguing with her boy about playing computer games for several hours. Technical advances in computer science and digital contents made it possible for every family to have a computer and many students spend their time on playing computer games. These phenomenon certainly interrupts students from learing. Despite these demirts, I strongly believe with the help of technology, students can learn more information and learn it more quickly. There are many reasons why I think so, and here I present some of them.
First of all, the accomplishment in digital network especially in the Internet made a plenty of information accessible. In the past, information meant the contents of books to the students. They had to buy books or visit libraries to find the information and spent a lot of time to seek the exact information they wanted inside books for their studies. On the contrary, in the present, there is a host of information in the Internet and the only thing students have to do is to type what they want with keyboards on the website of search engeins.
In addition, improvement of technology provided various kinds of studying equipments. These euipments provide students a lot of visual and audible information. Psychologists revealed that visionary and audible information gives stronger impression to students and lasts longer than written materials. For example, the information about foreign conturies inside books is very limited while the information provided by videos and pictures downloaded from the Internet can give versitle stimulus. This implies that students can learn more easily and fast with the help of technology.
Moreover, technology allowed students to conduct certain things by themselves. Because it is easy to control learning equipments and to search information they want, students do not need to be dependent entirely on teachers or parents for their studies. They can have some time to solve the problems by themselves without help of adults who often just tell the answers or impel their opinions. This independency can make students to learn more things more easily and fast in the long term.
It is true that teachers and parents still take important roles in education espeically for socialization or emotional development of students. However, it is undeniable that based on the technology, students can search more information more easily through the Internet, use various type of equipments and even develop their independency. I firmly beleive technology allows students to learn more information and to learn it more quickly. |