DRIVING QUESTION 2: 'Can digital technologies solve all of our problems?'
Explores the following topics/questions?:
- Where has it been helpful to modern teaching and life in general, and where has it perhaps been harmful?
- What can’t we do digitally? Are there aspects of modern teaching you’d foresee where technologies would be essential, or areas where traditional (non-digital) approaches would be better?
Digital technologies are "electronic tools, systems, devices and resources that generate, store or process data".
Examples of this can include:
- social media
- online games
- multimedia
- mobile phones.
As years have gone by, technology is being used more and more often to the convenience of the users. Technology is seen used in everybody's day-to-day lives without them even realising. Some even say "life without technology is pointless in today’s dynamic world."
Technology is seen not only benefiting people's personal lives and their leisure time but also through work and education. Over the years technology has become more popular in the classroom to aid with learning and teaching and has now become the normality. This is especially seen as a benefit for special-needs or children with an intellectual disability, to help them stay engaged, interacted and help better-understand what they are learning.
Technology is used from the time a person wakes up to the time they fall asleep. Some some technology has changed our lives for the better, helping improve effectiveness, efficiency and can solve all of our problems, but in saying this, others believe that, since the world was taken over by technology, it not only cannot solve all of our problems, but it also creates many of them.
In regards to technology being used in businesses, technology is an advantage in the sense that it can result in faster task completion, lower admin costs, staff can work from home (remotely) if ill or needing to stay home, therefore work is not missed and lastly can help boost a companies sales by being able to personally and specifically target the audience they are appealing to.
In the article written by Chandran Nair, Founder and CEO, Global Institute for Tomorrow , 'Why resilience - not technology - is the answer to our biggest challenges', mentions that an approach to human progress that insures society against shocks in order to build safe and secure communities is resilience. It is said that "the pandemic should teach us that when it comes to preventing a global crisis, Instead, countries need a development approach that integrates resilience into their economic planning and protects communities from external shocks, helping them recover from disaster better than before: insured resilience."
Why Technology Is Important In Our Daily Life | Impact of Technology. (2019, October 18). Digital Edenz.
https://digitaledenz.com/why-technology-is-important-in-our-daily-life/#:~:text=Technology%20is%20inevitable%20in%20our,of%20many%20problems%20of%20mankind.
Technology alone can’t solve our problems. Here’s what might. (n.d.). World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/insured-resilience-priority-heres-why/.
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