The School of Tomorrow and the Computer Age
Computers and technology have affected every
aspect of people's life; school cannot be an exception as education more
than anything else in society has to follow the spirit of modern age. The
opportunities technology offers to improve the school environment are
enormous: access to libraries for the remote areas, possibility for contact
and collaboration among schools, enrichment of the everyday class work,
opportunity for familiarizing young people to technology etc. But despite
all these miracles, I do not think that the computer itself can totally
replace the school environment; learning through the internet only and
replacing school with distant learning is a chimera in my opinion. It can
enrich school, it can be a valuable tool for teachers and students if they
learn to use it correctly, but only incorporated in the school life, tightly
connected to the classroom. According to what I believe, nothing can replace
the human relationship between the teacher and the students. Computer is
just a tool which we should learn to use correctly in order to serve our
needs.
NAME: Spiros Tzelepis, COUNTRY:
Greece, AGE: 14
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