School shouldn’t use books as medium for learning anymore. Agreed or not? By Putri Naura Assyifa XE

But instead they should use latest technology such as laptop, computer tablet, etc. as the medium.

Nowadays, technology had overtaken the world in many aspect. Tourism, healthy, industry, medical, pharmaeutical,etc. And how about education? Does it get involve too?

The answer is of course it is. Education keep evolves and so does technology. And recently, there’s an idea to change the system of learning by subtitute books into gadgets.

This idea come up because people started to thinking maybe if students use gadgets for their learning, everything would be so much easier. For example, if you wanted to find any sources for your homework, you could just search it by using search engine. Now if you decided to use book as your resource, which is a traditional way, it could take much longer time. That’s what people think. Now i know that using internet had been done for many years since internet was found. But what people trying to change here, is the medium for learning at home, and of course at school. Students oftenly only use their gadgets for learning at home and doing homework. But, what if they could use the gadgets full-time at school? So no longer books, or notebook, or stationery. They don’t even have to listen to teacher because the material they need to learn or they will learn is already on their gadgets.

Pros and Contras

Pros

In the positive ways, we will teach our kids and younger generation to be aware to technology as early as possible. So when they grow up, they will get used to it. And there will be many jobs and occupation that related to technology in the future so we’re preparing them from now. And not using books as a mediator to learning would be more efficient and healthy for teacher either the student. Because by using just one gadget, they won’t carry many heavy books in one day which sometimes can be dangerous for their back-bone and body structure.

Contras

The negative thing about subtituting book into gadget is, we’re also taking part in global warming. We know the making of gadget involve many natural resources and the industry produce a lot of smoke & unhealthy rubbish that isn’t good for environment.

Also, the price of gadget is more expensive than book. Though gadget are more multifunctional, but it could bring bad effects for kids. Kids can learn everything from it, and if we don’t teach them how to use the technology wisely, they could possibly misunderstand. In globalization era like this, many worst thing can happened in internet and social network.

Using gadget also could bring out bad habits to kids. They could get addictive to the gadget so they’ll forget their routines.

Playing gadget for hours isn’t really good for eyes and body’s health. In addition, it could bring out laziness to children and decrease their durability because ‘gadget kids’ often sit in front of their gadgets for hours than playing with their friends or do some sports which is important for kids health at their age. Beside that, some survey shows that many of ‘gadget kids’ often having a sleep disease or what we usually called Insomnia.

Using technology could possibly decrease the function of teacher too.

So my conclusion is, even though technology brings many advantage in kids learning system, we should wisely use them. Nowadays, many people are very rely on technology, though, we shouldn’t get addicted. Therefore, we should be the one who controlled technology, not the opposite. Technology and gadget are made to make human’s life easier and better.

Though there’s many profit of using them, i suggest we should still use the conventional ways of learning. So we could teach our kids and younger generation to appreciate people’s hard work by learning from book and teacher.