One
Sunday I went to teach the 10th standard students. And as I was to
teach them something similar to this was their lesson. I just then, that it
clicked in my mind that the world that we are in, is evolving at a rapid pace.
One day we are to reach this stage where there won’t be any more pens, pencils,
etc. Nowadays most of the people are found with their smartphones. All want to
roam with their mobiles. The technology is taking over and I don't think it’s
ever gonna stop. When I was in my 12th standard commerce, my friends
never cared to Xerox notes but they would use the camera of their mobiles to
click a snap and then they would study it from it. Now even in many schools,
projectors are being installed where the teaching will now be computerized.
Teaching too now will become more competent. The teacher will not only require
having teaching skills but also should be well versed in using technology. I
met one teacher in a school she said ‘now after installing these projectors I
think so I have to learn the basics of computer.’ Yes! This shows how fast
everything is changing. Even the children I schools are very happy to move to
an audio-visual hall then to sit in their classroom to study. It’s not far that
that all blackboards, pens, pencils, chalks, etc., will be one a gone by
memory. The latest technology seems to be promising and effective. But in
another way it’s also our world. For the technology to survive it requires
power and this power is used from the resources of the world. I would say that
technology is good with all its bad too. Well the question that we humans need
to ask is, where are we heading? Are we heading in the correct direction or are
we as Rousseau said ‘everything that humans touch ends corrupt’ are we here to
end this world that we are living in. are we here to live only for our own
selfish desires? I believe that humans are naturally good but it’s their
actions that make them bad. I'm not condemning for technology as it is. It is
good but overusing it makes things worse. Technology is created for humans to
make things simple for humans. So we humans too should understand that we
should not take advantage of others for our own good. One day after many years
I may say to my friends when we were in school we used to write with pens,
pencils….., but see now many things are made so simple for the students they
need not carry heavy bags with books filled in it. The children will have only
one laptop or a tab in their bag on which they will write or download their
matter from. With this change too we too will have to change. And with this
change pens and pencils will be no more used. And if at all we try to use the
pen or pencil after many years I guess our writing will not be the same. It
will be good for one to decipher what s/he has written. I believe that
technology will not be wiped from the face of the earth it may be cut down but
it will be required to keep a balance so that we not fully destroy the earth
and also not forget the great inventions of humanity.
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