The Benefit Of Technology

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With technology growing rapidly nowadays distributed computing, programs to better study and social media alongside with quality learning sources, job loss, destruction weapons and internet vulnerability are some of technology’s benefits and drawbacks.
Technology’s greatest and most helpful achievements have brought progress, but too often this progress would not be as good as we think if and only we do not use it responsibly.
The most important thing about technology is the ability to cure diseases with microscopes, supercomputers and other related hardware giving us the chance nowadays if we want to help doctors, we can just donate our computers CPU power with distributed computing. What if we could share our unused computer power to help …show more content…

For example Facebook which was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, which has been used for teaching and learning for quite some time has shown that 86 first-year student who took an English course in the first semester of 2015 academic year “This study employed the proficiency test and the questionnaire to collect data. The results reveal that overall mean scores of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness were at a high level, and students had a positive attitude toward the use of Facebook for doing the activities.” (Orachorn, K. (oct 2012). Using Blogs to Improve Students ' Summary Writing Abilities, 13(4), 209-219. Retrieved March 15, 2017, from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1000423 …show more content…

Content Validity becomes imperative upon the teacher and the institution in order to ensure the quality of these learning resources. “Learning materials should have well defined learning objectives, should be peer reviewed to ensure content validity, accuracy, currency, use of evidence based data and use of best practices”. Lack of face-to-face interaction with other peers and the instructor can be a disadvantage for student and professors who cannot take the immediate answer to a specific problem or situation unless they are online. (Mohammad, A. F., Ansar, S., & Ansari, U. (n.d.). Information and Communication Technology in Dental Education: Benefits and Drawbacks. 2(2), 147-154. Retrieved March 15, 2017, from http://web.b.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=2348537X&AN=103413505&h=roMYQyNlBsNeuCOha5qitbotWKqz9KuV%2f5rgP%2fhKDTuLDMHvxyy7FyqQREzT4c%2fuBb5FmHG1Jk1tXx80QFlPUw%3d%3d&crl=c&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d2348537X%26AN%3d103413505 ).
In addition job loss and world destruction weapons are always in a higher state since technology affected all of us, automated machines which can be easily programmed to replace any human machines have a tremendous effect on unemployment making it harder and harder for the upcoming

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