The Benefit of Using Technology in Teaching

Technology is a part of human life. It makes and helps human life easier. Many people use technology in their daily activities to hold out their life as everything uses and needs technology. There are some advantages of using technology especially in teaching, such as making the instruction more interesting, making teacher easier to convey the material, and avoiding student from bored situation.

            Making the instruction interesting is not easy, but it becomes easy if the teachers use technology in their instruction. The teachers can create the interesting material when they are teaching their students in the class. They can use some kinds of technology to apply their material in the class. For example, the teacher can use some software or application that has made by someone based on their purpose without to make it first. The teachers only operate the software or application in their class and explain it to their students. It can make the teachers easier to convey materials without wasting their time and energy when they teach in the class. When the students learn with the interesting instruction, absolutely they will pay more attention to their teacher, and the instruction will be loved by students. So, technology is very helpful when teacher does not have any idea to make the interesting material.

            Another advantage, technology provides many types devices to help teacher in instruction. There are many types of media that technology has provided, such as audio, visual, audio-visual, computer, internet, etc. For instance, the writer takes internet as instructional media. One of the advantages the internet as instructional media can be used when the instruction held in long distance. That is only an example from one of the types media, it means that every media has strengths each other. So, the teachers can choose the instructional media according to their majors or purpose and apply it in their class. They only choose, apply, and adjust it in their class in order their students can follow the instruction nicely.

            And the last benefit, technology can help student to avoid bored situation. Because of most students get bored when they are studying in the class without variation, and it is the biggest problem that the teacher has to figure out. Technology can be one of the best solutions to help student from bored situation. The teacher can be more varied using technology, such as the teacher can use instructional tools or teaching aid like power point to convey the materials. When the students always learn from text book, of course they are going to be bored, so the teacher can use power point to convey the material from the text book showed in power point. As the writer explained previously, it can be more effective and interesting, for the students pay more attention in instruction. Beside, using technology can avoid students from bored situation, it can improve student’s ability and motivation as well. By the condition the teacher gives the assessment for their students with one of kinds instructional tool or teaching aid.   Absolutely, the students can make themselves more creative using technology in instruction.

            From the explanations above, the writer can conclude that using technology is very important in teaching learning process to make and improve the instruction better than before. But, those all have requirement itself. The teacher must know and understand kinds of instructional media itself. Because this is an effect from globalization and modernization, the teachers must follow the changes of the world. If there is a teacher cannot follow the changes, it means that he or she will be eliminated by others. Thus, technology is the best partner whenever and wherever for human especially in teaching. Every one can take many advantages from technology, and teacher can take it too.