AssignmentAprilSalvador


 * Ass No.1**

TECHNOLOGY: BOON OR BANE?

Psp,ipod, cell phones, internet, MP4, laptop, etcetera, sounds striking in the lugs. I can hear them so loud and see them stunningly anywhere and any moment of the whole day. They’re like bees buzzing in my ears. Their omnipresence may delight you and me or bother the both of us. They can make us giggle and as well as crafting our face to sob. They bring us bliss or destined us in the hole of trouble. Technology is all that powerful and thus matter in the life of human.

Technology runs the world, they say. It keeps the earth of becoming smaller, exposing its totality unseizingly, causing the world to be bold, yet wrapped with worldly things people admire unwittingly. Technology has been a blessing tool. Nations are enjoying on what technology can do of promoting their businesses and the like. It is the reason of industrialization detonation, the improvement of media as well as the development of educational institutions, it has been contributing a lot in the progress of society as one. Moreover, secrets are revealed that easy and that fast. Just imagine a womanizer boyfriend who then could still keep flitting with other girls out there while his girlfriend knows nothing about it. But nowadays, it’s not only the keen eyes that peep every action he makes, technology serves already a detective somehow. Besides, it has been a screwdriver that tighten a loosing relationship. Lovers are still connected with each other and even makes miles of distance as just a seat apart. In school, technology is already a big deal in the teaching-learning process, it carries up the boredom class and creates a dynamic and enthusiastic interaction inside the classroom. Computers as searching instruments for students has been providing concrete and diverse information about a certain topic causing the lesson easier to grasp. People learn much from it especially the youth and children whose little minds are not merely a mind of an adult in miniature. They know a lot more than what adults are expecting. Certainly, technology (gadgets and devices) is making these juveniles brainy individuals.

However, as a form of luxury, the gap of individuals or people in the society in terms of financial or social status, is continuously becoming greater. Richie rich will always be superior over others because of the properties his fellows can’t afford. In fact, technology, is not merely a mean of communication or connection in the absence of physical body, this is also the cause of worse or unpleasing if not broken affairs. Technologies can take away the attention of those people we love in a sense that their admiration is already turned fanatical.


 * Ass. No.2**

The Pull of Pedagogy

I am the master of hundreds of learners. Teaching students is my profession but my career doesn’t end up on knowledge impartation nor on facilitating learning inside the learning room, and not even death can terminate a teacher’s teaching, it only ceases when nobody wants to learn. I take them away from ignorance and drive them closer to the wide innovative world. Igniting their spirit? Difficult! But there’s nothing that makes a dogged pedagogue run back from the game.

I was once a student and a follower of great masters. It is already 25 years ago when I had my first educator, up to time, I can still cite the names of the teachers I had each year until finishing my education. Most of them I know by name, some of them, I know by deed, and a very few of them, I know by how much they had hone me to be the best person I could be. And I want to be remembered by my learners the same way too- that they can remember me not only by name or by face, or by deed and characters but also by the principles and teachings I’d shared with them, worthy to be emulated.

As a teacher, I am endowed with life having the highest obligation to live with dignity at all times. But I am not trying to infuse in my students’ mind that they ought to remember and imitate what’s good about me. My valuable educators made me to keep them in my memory inadvertently, they just let me feel painful failures and joyful triumphs. They taught me how to learn independently and realize that you do not need to experience everything in order to learn, and that what is worth working for is worth having for. That not all that we want is what we need. And anything received instantly isn’t as sweet as things you gained so hard. And there’s nothing more virtuous than lifting up others and make them burning in spirit without taking off their rectitude. All things work together for good.

These I want my students to remember, not I myself but the doctrine I inherited from my masters. To be remembered is great, but to be alive forever in the heart of people is the greatest of all.