Technology

Humanism

Technology:A Boon for Mankind

• With technology, there is a lot that we can do which we could not do then.

• With cell phones, web cams you will be closer to someone miles and miles a way.

• Many human lives saved because of speedy notifications via cell phones.

• Your teaching and learning can be more novel, stimulating, exciting engaging with the use of multimedia in the classroom. 

• The classrooms of today have never been so exciting and wonderful like before with the various instructional media at the reach of teachers.

• Technology advances show people a more efficient way to do things.

• Medical discoveries occur at a much more rapid rate and allow for more intense educational research into medical matters.

Technology:A Bane for Mankind

• The learner is made to accept the Gospel truth information they get from the Internet.

• The TV makes the learner a mere spectator not an active participant in drama life.

• The learners get glued to the computer-assisted instruction unmindful of the world as so fails to develop the ability to refuse to others.

• Because of our cell phones we used most of our time in the classroom or in our working place texting.

• We over use and abuse TV as film viewing as a strategy to kill time.

• Automobiles have resulted to faster transportation, but it also resulted to many accidents.

• Other changes in technology have produced hazards to the environment.

• Televisions programs show violence or falsity.

• Internet has been a venue for organized crime like cybersex.

• “Technology is made for man and not man for technology.”

• “Technology is made for the teacher and not the teacher for technology.”

Is technology bound to create then later

destroy?

Is technology a blessing or a

curse?

Is technology a form of exploitation of human

beings?

Is technology dehumanizing

man?

What is Humanism?a philosophical and ethical stance that

emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and

collectively

concerns with the interests, needs, and welfare of humans

system or mode of thought or action in which human interests,

values, and dignity are taken to be of primary importance, as in moral

judgments

HUMANISM

A group meets on a regular basis to discuss

common reading assignments

A college lecture with little or no interaction between the professor

and the students

A course consisting of complete modules but students have periodic interactions with the

professor

A course consisting of modules each composed of objectives, materials,

and self-evaluation format

High

Low

Low High

TECHNOLOGY

HU

MAN

ISM

Relationship of Technology and Humanism

Promoting Humanism inside the Classroom

Teacher-Student

Interaction

Active Participation

Consultation

USEFUL EFFECTS

HARMFUL EFFECTS

TECHNOLOGY