Answer to Question #249549 in English for Gaskin

Question

Compare and contrast the advantages of integrating technology into the curriculum. Compose three (3) pros and three (3) cons. You may include your own personal and professional experiences to support your points of view if you are currently teaching. If you are not teaching, analyze your own experience as a student using technology in the classroom or the experiences of a family member or friend as a teacher or learner.

Answer 1

As time changes, technology is incorporated in different fields and learning is not left behind. During the covid-19 era, learning adopted technology as many learning institutions adopted the online learning and teaching. However, there are advantages and disadvantages associated with integrating technology in the curriculum. The advantages from my experiences include: an improvement in relationships between learners and instructors through online interactions. Another advantage is that it enhances future effectiveness by enabling changing of the environment to reduce boredom. The third advantage is it enables instructors to have personalized instructions with students which could be hard in normal learning environment. The disadvantages include: it is less flexible since practical are hard to monitor or conduct, it adds to learning costs since it is an addition to the normal learning methods and it poses a thread of addiction and distractions to learners.