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Well, using technology to assist teaching & learning is a topic that been around for quite a long time. In today’s world if you picked out ten people from the street and asked if using technology in teaching is useful probably all of them would say “yes” and the only thing that comes into their mind when you asked that question would be slideshows, like literally. The “actual” part of the technology is nowhere around to be known (probably because smart phones have dominated the whole concept and are the only part of it that almost every people can actually fit into their daily lives). But the truth is, uses of technology are innumerable and even me myself wasn’t aware that these uses and advantages expands to such higher levels until the last few years. We can list a tiny bit of those as follows;

Technology;

• Can be used as a visual aid,

• Makes virtual and online learning possible

• Makes almost every source and material accessible without paying anything,

• Is a platform that can gather masses  in one place,

• Promotes individual and self-paced learning,

• Increases students’ creativity and innovation.

These listed above are also very general examples, you can check a little more detailed examples from here.

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But of course with the advantages comes disadvantages as well.

Technology;

• Can be very distracting if not managed correctly,

• Can make learners inattentive to the lessons,

• By giving all the powers to control everything by a click of mouse can make students lazy,

• Can make learners disconnected from the real world (online education tools etc.)

•  Makes cheating inevitable,

•  May not be accessible by every learner and could put some of them at a disadvantage.

You can also check very good and more explanatory examples from here.

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As for me;

If you ask me if I consider myself as a technology user, well, definitely no at least not yet. I find
educational technology very hard to get used to. However, I am constantly learning a lot of new
things and getting more and more familiar with the whole concept in the hope of becoming proficient in using technology by the time I become a teacher.