Thinking activity : Technology and Education

1) Why is it necessary to use Technology in Education ? 

To use technology in education is necessary today because Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome. Teacher can use technology in the classroom through technology student became active and develop new thinking . Teacher can use technology in teaching so, it is effective process learners and they get knowledge easily. Technology through students can acquire other skill also for example:Listening skill,  Speaking, skill, Reading  skill and Writing skill.
Here, some examples that how technology is necessary in classroom.

1) Technology makes teaching easy
2) Technology helps to track students’ progress
3) Technology makes distance learning more    
     accessible than ever before
4) Students and teacher can access information at 
     any time!
5) Technology makes collaboration more
     effective!

Technology is peripheral to the learning activity. Thus, we can say that technology is necessary in education.

(2) What is the difference between 'using' and 'integrating'
      technology?

 

To 'Using' and 'Integration' technology is different for example.If teacher can use technology purely for the sake of using technology. So, it became use of technology. If technology is used to support curricular goals & learning objectives. So, it became use of Integration technology. If teacher can use technology is rare or sporadically used in the classroom so, it became 'Using'. If technology is a routine part of the classroom environment. So, it became 'Integration'. Technology is mostly being used by the instructor. So it became using. If technology is mostly being used by the student. So, it became Integration.Thus, it is important for all teachers to understand the differences between technology use and technology integration.

  (3) How we integrate technology?

For integration student can use different web tools like blog task, Flipped learning and social media like Whatsapp and Facebook, in which Flipped learning is very interesting because it broke the traditional norms of teaching and learning in the classroom. Students can learn any time from any where through flipped learning.So the teachers use technology it is called use of technology and what student use it is called integration of technology. Students learn by their own. It also become helpful to get connected with other students.

(4) Can Technology replace Teacher ?

This is the age in which human are replaced by technology. There is so many place in which the place of human beings are taken by machine and technology. But in education , the place of teacher is can not taken by anything. May be the place of teacher will be taken by technology but there will be still missing of emotion, feelings and interaction between student and teacher.After all its a machine which have programmed information. It never able to connect the things out of the box like teacher. Technology can provide information but when and how leaner should used that information in proper way it only taught by teachers.

(5) Write in brief on David Crystal's views on 'effect of new technologies on English language', 'biggest challenge for English language teachers in the times of internet', and 'texting is good for English language'.

David Crystal and support the argument that new technologies, rather than degrading as some would argue the English language actually enhance it, as they facilitate new pursuits by developing a new style of the English language. We find Crystal's observations about the influence on language of a particular technological medium very interesting.
                          And also the idea of how a very minor change in a question, or sentence expecting a response, can so very dramatically influence the response itself and the language used.

It is also noteworthy what Crystal says about the timescale of observing the influence of technologies like the internet, and how it will take a very long time for us to actually see any prominent changes to the structure of the language- that it could be a relatively temporary phenomenon, but that we will not know for certain for a long .Teaching language change no question that is difficult always has been the difficulty with teaching, but its particularly a difficulty now given now that language is changing so fast is changing for tourism. one reason the internet which is indeed festering new varieties and new word. experience faster than ever before we know in the old day if you invented a new world It could generation before the rest of the world,knew about that new world. Technology and texting brought abbreviation in  language. But it is only 10 percent other 90 percent language is standard English. In language the more one read and write, the more one can expertise it. And mobile and computer can be very useful for that.

6) Name one web-tool which can help in development of all four L-S-R-W skills.

Whatsapp as a web tool is very useful for all four basic skills.
     For Example,

  Listening skill
  Speaking skill
  Reading skill and
  Writing  skill

Through whatsapp features and Whatsapp gives very good feature for improving these skills. For instance our professor gives us reading task in whatsapp so through this we can improve our reading skill and also it gives the features of video sharing, video calling, and we also write messages for writing skills.