Pros:
-Sharing valuable information and discoveries about health and education.
-Helping people to find support and resources
to develop programs and initiatives for common welfare.
-Improving the possibilities to present and
commercialize new products through Internet worldwide.
-Enabling people to learn and obtain a degree
by means of distance education.
-Providing many different sources of amusement for people of all ages.
-Creating new sources of employment (working from home).
Cons:
-People who do not have
enough money cannot have access to Internet or a computer.
-People who do not know how
to use technology cannot get its full benefits without external help.
-There is an increasing
problem with the lack of strong privacy policies.
-People get absorbed by
technology and forget to interact with other persons face to face.
-There are many risks to be
a victim of some kind of fraud in sales websites.
-People do not handle
technology properly cannot have access to better job positions.
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I now there are lots of pros and cons for using technology in class, but people should not be like afraid of using it. If you have the facilities and tools, you should give to it an opportunity. This is pretty interesting because the first thing you have to tell your students is that they have to be carefull with what they post. :)
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