Education Through Technology

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Education Through Technology It is certain that we can say education is the most fundemental and important thing that human need to pursue in their lives. Without education, there would not even be a society nor community, and people would still be living in the bronze age and follow a savage life; without education, technology would not even exist, and the ignorant human race would have to compete against other animals for living spaces. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” - Nelson Mandela. Indeed, education had helped the human rance to form societies and brought conveniences and advanced life styles. However, the education system nowadays is dying, “our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance”(Koller), unless we advocate a new form of education which combines technology and traditional lectures. The benefits of this will provide students with a convenient, simple and organized, and more suitable based on each individual’s personal experience. First of all, the use of technology had became a world wide phenomenon; more and more undeveloped and developing countries are adapting to a more advanced life through technology. Education through technology is easy to access and convenient; students can simply get on their iPad or smart phones and start learning through Youtube anywhere they want; it is also a simple task for instructors to produce lecture videos. For example, the sucess of Khan Academy on Youtube; it originally started when Salman Khan tried to teach his cousins math by recording lectures electronically and upload it online. Who knows, in just a several years, students had been using his videos to learn calculus, biology, physics, and chemistry...etc outside of classes; his videos had over millions of views and his Youtube channel has almost two million subscribers. One of the

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