15 Disadvantages of Technology in Education

We are living in the world where technology almost surpassed humanity said
by “Albert Einstein”. It’s worthless to mention nowadays that technology is
playing a very important role in every aspect of life. But don’t you think it is
making you moron day by day.
There are some education experts who strongly support that technology
actually upgraded the education system in U.S.A. On the other hand, many
believe that use of hi-tech mechanization literally hinders the steps of
learning. They are largely becoming dependent on technology for their
assignments rather than using their cerebrum for the thought process.
Being a teacher, I faced lots negative issues behind the use of technology in
education. Here, I am going to list 15 disadvantages of technology in
education.

1) Immense expenditures –
Gone are the days where students have to depend on paper and pen. This is an
advanced era of technology where machines like computers substituted the
use of paper with its hi-tech features and to maintain them a huge sum of
money is required by schools and colleges which can otherwise be spent to
buy necessary resources. In addition to it you have to spend thousands of
dollars to update the out-dated softwares which are incompatible with
present technology.

2) Insufficient methods of teaching-

With the advancement of mechanization, teachers are not equally trained with
its proper implementation. Thus learners are just using technology instead of
gaining knowledge from it. Using applied science to achieve education in the
proper way is a good thing but to transform it into an active set of skills is a
matter of time.
Inquiry-based learning is the best way to teach the learners where they get an
opportunity to research on different topics individually. Therefore, technology
should be fused with this method of teaching to make the learner’s brain keep
working instead of being totally dependent on them.
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3) Transforming learners into inefficient learners-
Very difficult to find the word “diligent” in learners nowadays as most of the
lessons can be easily accessible to them online through different websites in
their computers which are making them inattentive in classrooms or making
the mote skip schools frequently.
Relying completely on computers are creating poor studying habits. Many
students keep browsing websites to find the shortest possible way to solve
problems in Mathematics instead of solving them in a traditional way which
actually helps them to gain in-depth knowledge of the subjects. Spell-checkers
prevents them from learning the correct spelling thus resulting infinite
spelling mistakes in paper.

4) Waste of valuable time-

It is the human being who built technology not the technology that created a
human. As humans are not error-free, similarly technology too does not come
error-free. There are lots of problems like server error and connectivity
problems which take oodles of time to troubleshoot it, therefore, hindering the
learning process which can sometimes be a matter of frustration both for the
learners and the educators. Wastage of time because of unnecessary issues is
not at all advisable in schools or any learning institutes where every second is
valuable for the learners.

5) Misguided by the wrong information-

With the speeding development of technology, the websites owner urges to
rank their websites higher in search engines, so they only concentrate on
rankings instead of the content that they are posting. Many websites come
with wrong information that has been copied and pasted from other sources
without checking its authenticity. Thus the learners are misguided by the
wrong information’s available on the websites. These things can perhaps
become serious obstacles in their development.

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6) Major sources of distractions-
One of the statistics that revealed, almost 60% of the schools in U.S.A issues
laptops and tablets. As you know that in present generation social networking
sites are literally ruling the world with its attractive innovations therefore
students and learners are busy in checking their posts and updates, counting
the number of likes, checking the status that they themselves or any of their
near and dear ones updated, engage in commenting on social sites etc. all
these activities create a huge distance between them and their education.

7) Creating enough room for cheating-

The mechanized world is making you more and more lazy giving all the
powers to control everything by a click of mouse. Cheating is an illegal activity
but technology made it more powerful and easy to use with its powerful
wings. It has really become very tough to control this activity, especially in the
examination environment. Smartphones are available with all its advanced
features and instant internet accessibility which compel them to use it without
any hassles.

8) Increase rate of cyber bullying-

Cyber bullying is an illegal activity where especially youngsters fall under the
trap of illegal crimes without their knowledge. The young learners have an
easy access to umpteen accounts that tends them to enter into the dark tunnel
of harassment which has an entry but no exit at times. They lost in its
darkness along with their shining future which could have given miraculous
results if cultivated properly but with cyber bullying everything gets washed
off all of a sudden.

9) Makes learners disconnected from the real world-

In recent days to keep equal pace with technology educators are busy in
educating the learners with its online education tools instead of
communicating orally that makes them unable to interact with their teachers
and share their problems openly to overcome it. Teachers fail to draw
student’s attention. To avoid these problem educators should always use

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verbal communications along with online education tools so that their
students can dynamically learn the topics along with proper interactions.

10) Major challenges for teachers-

Every day, scientists come with new discoveries and challenges that keep
technology rolling every second. Softwares keep on upgrading and if a teacher
does not possess technical skills, it becomes difficult for him to execute it in
the right direction. Hence, educators have to be expert in technical skills toor
the school has to hire technical experts adding extra expenses to their
expenditures to overcome these technical challenges.

11) A major drawback of losing assignment for students-

Computer is a machine which often faces malfunction at times due to its wear
and tear. Just imagine you have to
submit your assignment tomorrow which is your last deadline and you have
put all your hard labours to complete the assignment and saved it in your
laptop to get the highest grade in class but all of sudden just the night before
submission your laptop isn’t working. What will be your reaction? Will you be
able to put the same efforts within that limited time? All your efforts went in
vain with the malfunctioning of your laptop. You cannot rely completely on
these gadgets for your important projects and assignments.

12) Difficult to deal with online courses-

You keep on exploring the world each day but still there are lots of facts that
are left unexplored. Knowledge has no limit and no age. Many students or
learners have urge to keep their learning go on and on but at times it becomes
difficult for them to attend regular classes due to their job or other difficulties
but with advance science it has become easy nowadays as it has given us the
marvellous option of perusing online courses along with our regular activities,
but problems like slow internet speed and network issues keeps troubling
you. The other disadvantage is that these online courses often fail to create
motivation for learning or self-discipline and usually ends with monotonous
experiences and frustration.

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13) Extinct of good handwriting-
As smartphones, laptops, desktops and tablets wholly replaced the use of
paper and pen, therefore, finding a person with good hand writing is just like
finding a needle in the haystack. All the important documents are now typed
and fitted in that small folder icon in your laptop. Experts say that people are
sacrificing their handwriting to adopt the technology for fast learning. Using of
technology in place of handwriting slow down your thinking process by
making your neurons lethargic.

14) Partial to the low-income group-

Some low-income institutes in U.S.A does not have access to a huge number of
computers to make it available for all the students so in this case those
students may be unaware of the basic computer skills that have been learned
by other students at a very early stage. Technology needs a huge sum of
money to shower its blessings to the educational institutes especially the
colleges that requires large number of computers to educate its students with
advanced science.

15) Replacing books with e-books-

The world is shrinking day by day and so all your important stuffs are now
compressed in your favourite gadgets even the books which have now become
e-books which are called electronic books. Books are your real assets and can
never be replaced by e-books which may not be cost-effective at times and can
cause eyestrain. E-books are not compatible in all the devices so your laptop
or tablets should have e-book reader to access electronic books and the worst
part is your e-book can be hacked easily by the hackers.
Wherever there is light, there is a shadow. Technology can make you fly higher
and higher in the sky but at the same time it can even ruin your life with its
negative features. Technology can enhance your knowledge at the same time it
can even lower your grade in education.