Is the internet/social media bringing people closer to each other or separating them??

 

Hello everyone, 

 

how are you feeling today ? Are you ready to start a fresh week with me, as always ?!  

I know that my blog topics are always about technology but what can I do ?  They are really interesting and I enjoy writing them. So today I am going to discuss about a topic that really concern us. Nowadays we have people that stand for both parties, people who favour internet, and those who don't. We have mentioned a lot of advantages of technology and specifically internet connection. Internet helps us communicate with people from all around the world. Especially in Albania, a lot of families have their relatives abroad and they try to communicate with them via internet, whatsapp calls or messenger ones. At the beginning people didn't know how to use their computers in order to communicate, so big companies took advantage of that and they start to modernize even more smartphones, including on them different apps in order to become easier for people the use of internet. 

The biggest advantage I believe is that big companies profit from their smartphones by selling them. Then other telecommunicating companies profit from people who went there to full their smartphones with internet. Another advantage was of course the internet connection that people had with their relatives who lived abroad and maybe they had years and years of not seeing them. 

At the beginning it was really nice, but then it started to become an addiction for the whole population. Today people can not go anywhere without their smartphone. They need to post something on their social media so that others know what they are doing. We are constantly on our phones from the moment it sunrises until it dawns. And here we come to the question, does the internet unite us or is it separating us every day even more from each other? I personally believe that the internet is separating us. The best example that I can give is that we forget about our family at home. A lot of times I have realised that I am constantly at my phone or at my laptop doing something and I am forgetting the most precious thing, which is family. Maybe one day I will be abroad as well and then I will  be 'forced' to talk to them from a screen phone. So why do I need to wait to go abroad in order to talk to them, I can talk to them everyday face to face. Appreciate these moments because unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity. 

I will leave you a little bit to think about it. Who knows maybe we will give to ourselves the chance to have a day off or maybe a weekend off from social media, internet connection in general, and go out have some fun with people that surround us!! Appreciate the moment and not just get lost into the world of internet. I know that it is really appealing but please, don't! 

I hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts one more time. Feel free to leave your comments down below, and thank you very much for being so attentive readers every week !!! 

                        HAVE FUN AND ENJOY LIFE CAUSE IT'S TOO SHORT. 

Can Technology replace humans?!

 Hello everyone, 

How are you feeling today ?! Are you ready to start this week ?! 

Today i would like to talk about a very important topic which is technology. I know that we have spoken many times about this term and technology in general but today i would like to go further on a more specific topic which is 'can technology replace humans'? 

How about you what do you think ? Can it be possible?

I mean, i know that technology is evolving day by day, and i also know that a lot of works which were made by people have already  been replaced with a robotic machine that can do anything on it's own without any help. They can do like a lot of factory jobs which automatically means that a lot of people will remain jobless. I can still vividly remember the movie 'Charlie and the chocolate factory', when his father lost his job, which was putting cups on toothpastes, just because they replaced him with a robot that could do that job and didn't get paid as his father did. I felt a little bit bad, like how can you leave a human being without work and money, especially when they have a whole family that rely on him financially. I do believe that a lot of people will lose their jobs just because they will be replaced by machines, technological ones that will serve for their personal purposes. But still i personally don't believe that technology will replace human beings, and that is simply because i don't believe that robots for example can do all works that humans do. They can do them but not with a perfectionist hand of a human being. Let's take for example doctors, even though a robotic machine can do that job, we as human beings, would like to talk to a highly educated person that knows the proper diagnosis, knows how to deal with your treatment or knows how to give you the right antibiotics, which means that we don't trust easily, especially when we have to deal with such a delicate theme which is our health. However even though they may replace a lot of works still, they will luck the ability of emotions. For example a 'human' teacher knows her/his students very well and understands them equally well when they don't understand the lesson, when they haven't done their homework, or when the teacher is explaining the lesson. Which automatically means that they luck that ability that a human teacher has to understand his students if everything is alright, the machines will just elaborate on that specific part of the lesson and that's it. It will not be the same. Even though they are trying like really hard still they are facing a lot of  problems and damages on these machines. 

Human beings are irreplaceable, they still matter. The best solution would be for technology to interact with human beings but not to replace them at all. 

That was my opinion about this topic, i hope you liked reading it and see you soon on my next post. Bye!!  

Benefits and Challenges of Technology in the Classroom

 Hello everyone, 

I hope you are doing great and you are ready to start a new week with different challenges as well. As i started the week and as our classmates presented their presentations today i came to realize that even though technology may have it's benefits, it might as well have challenges during an online classroom. So i personally made a little research and i found a lot of interesting information that i would like to share with you. 

I personally would like to start with, benefits of technology in the classroom and then proceed with the challenges that we may encounter. A lot of educators might be wondering why it is so important to include technology in a classroom. But i think that the benefits stretch far and wide for both teachers and students. Traditional teaching has gone out of fashion and what i mean by that is that students would like an interactive power point presentation than just the blackboard. Another advantage is that students will develop a lot of new skills as digital learners. But let me cut it short for you. The benefits of integrating technology into an online classroom include: 

• Increased student engagement
• Encouraging teamwork and collaboration
• Preparing students for life after graduation
• Connecting students and teachers 
• Improved teaching outcomes 

Even though technology is being utilized more and more frequently, still there are teachers that struggle to integrate technology into their classrooms. Actually there are a number of factors which we may take into consideration( cost, ease of use, ongoing support etc.), that of course will have an impact on when and how to introduce technology in our classrooms. Common challenges that teachers experience while integrating technology vary as follows: 

• Students misusing technology
• Teachers knowledge and professional development 
• Keeping students safe online 
• Cost of new technology 
• Keeping up with changes

These are all different factors that play an important role in order to integrate or not technology in our classes.I believe that we should take them all into consideration and do what is best for the students and then for us, as teachers. 

This is all for me tonight, i hope you enjoyed reading this post. 

Feel free to leave your comments down below.