Visions

The video of vision of students today happen to be somehow disturbing to me. It is in contrast to what we say about technology, that it would help us improving our life in terms of education and other areas of life. In the video found from Encyclopedia Britannica, it shows that the students were expressing how much time they wasted online everyday, how much books they are going to read as compared to the number of ebooks that is going to be read. 

From the video, it shows that technology can either benefits the learners in the classroom or destroys them. For example, when we are going to integrate ICT within classroom, make sure there is a limit of sites to surf the web rather than letting the students turn of facebook and ignore the lesson. I would say that in order to implement ICT in the classroom, there must be a mutual understanding between the teachers and the students before they proceed into the lesson. 

Reality hits, every student in tertiary education has a mobile phone, and out of 10 of them, at least 8 would have internet connection on it, or else the school areas would have free wifi. This would encourage them to use it in the classroom, surfing the web, reading mails or even to call/sms. This distracts them from learning in the classroom setting. I think, in order to use technology properly to benefit both students and teachers, a mutual agreement has to be done before hand.

What do you think?