Use of Technology in Education, But at What Cost?
International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)
ISSN : 2320 - 1886(Online; 2320 - 3935(Print)
Article Title:
Use of Technology in Education, But at What Cost?
ABSTRACT
Use of technology in the field of education has been a blessing. Faster grading, quicker notes / media availability for students, interactive communication outside of classrooms with students and faculty, online courses etc. have added to the enhancement of our education system. But when technology is pushed in teaching without proper thought, it becomes a black box approach at the cost of intuition, commonsense, and overall understanding of the concepts. Instead of supplementing technology in the process of learning, it has been used in making the black box approach more common. When we can shift the question from “How to educate with technology?” to “How to teach people best, and how should we design learning experiences in light of existing technology?”, then learning becomes a way to quench curiosity, and passion for learning will become a never ending pursuit for students. Models and textbook theories can help build the knowledge base, but they miss the context [5,7]. Students take them at face value without thinking through the real world implications. This is a recipe for failure since the industry expects business school students to tell the story with a strong reference to the context. A simplistic understanding of the formulas is what students’ need instead of a plug and solve formula based teaching method.
KEYWORDS
MS Excel,Break-even Analysis,Probability Distribution, Lines and circles
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