The Role of Technology in the 21st Century Education

Labandero, Reyelsa M. January 18, 2013

AB English 3-A Functional Literacy in the New Media

Mr. Jason Patalinghug

“The role of Technology in the 21^st Century Education”

Technology is an important component in our current age we live in. It completes us because technology such as our gadgets and other tangible things are very useful for we can use it when we want to be connected with our love ones. Not only for us to be connected but also for the students who use technology such as computers for studying. As we all know, nowadays students like me finds that technology helps us to be advance and to have a fast and easy research, because students don’t want to be complicated for the things especially in doing an assignments, research papers and others. As technology advances, it used to benefit students of all ages especially in the process of learning. Technology has also advanced to help children even they were not in school yet. Video games for young children help them prepare for school and in some cases get ideas to start on their education. Technology helps the students to be more ready and to be equipped. Technology used in the class helps students absorb the materials, as we know that in every class technology is important, projector, projection screens linked to computers can make the students see their notes visually instead of just listening to a teacher or a classmate delivering a lesson. It is useful for the students to create presentations, and use the internet to research topics for the research papers.

Technology really plays an important role in our live today; so we have to use technology in the proper ways, because without the technology life will not be as easy as now.