Limitations of Technology

Technology - Its Limitations

Technology needs to be integrated with good teaching skills - "The key point to understand about improving reading(education) is that good teaching combined with good technology can improve reading skills very quickly. Neither good teaching by itself nor good technology by itself can accomplish the task. This article describes how and why the combination of good teaching and good technology succeeds." (See Full Article)

The Digital Divide - "The lack of access to technology is a fundamental barrier to the widespread development of digital literacy. While simply being able to access a computer does not mean that a learner can confidently surf the Internet, it is still a good place to start.There are also less obvious issues of access. How can online culture be made more accessible to people not ordinarily accustomed to it? How can new media be inclusive of people with physical impairments or low literacy skills? "

• Access Divide
• Gender Divide
• Assistive Technologies
• Cultural Divide

Sometimes our poverty is due to our lack of use of the technology we have or not using the technology we have correctly.

Some examples that come to mind are:

• Having children write and then enter text on the computer. (Two steps)
• Using web pages only as we would a textbook, to fill in answers to questions. etc.
• To fill in time we don't have planned for anything else.
  
• Using websites without evaluating them first.