week 5: Technology is a problem or an advantage?

The articles Critical Thinking and Technology by Ken Bain, and Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? Give us relevant and useful information about how and when to use technology. From these articles I really learned that we cannot perceive technology as totally good or totally bad. Depending on the way we use it, it can help or harm our students’ learning process.Also, technology could affect the learning process of some students, we have to know that not everybody learn in the same way and it is our responsibility as teachers identify the learning personalities of our students.

Besides, we as teachers, need the technological resources for our classes, for example to project a video about the topic of the class or make a forum to discuss some doubts of the class, but we as teachers should not have to depend of technology, because it does not “cover” all the necessities of our students.

 There is one point mentioned in one of the articles that I consider that every teacher should know, and it is that when we as teachers think about using technology, we should not think about how it will make our work easier, but we must think how it will help our students acquire the knowledge we are transmitting or teaching to them.