APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES IN CONTEXT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDIA IN FUTURE EDUCATION: PROS & CONS

Abstract

It is well said, ‘Seeing is believing.’ It is good that new technologies are emerging every other day that can enable the teacher, media men and the learner to see, hear, feel smell and touch things to a great extent. Learning and practicing journalism is getting easier and an enriching experience thanks to technologies. Earlier teaching social science and journalism was dry and insipid. But new emerging technologies are working wonders. However, beyond a point, using future technologies is hazardous. It is a double edged sword. Technologies are there as aids. They are capable of solving problems but at the same time they may give rise to problems. The role of trouble shooting may be swapped with trouble creation. The first letter of man and machine is m but man should be at the helm of affairs, not vice versa. Educationists and journalists find technologies useful some times, but a headache in different situations. Technologies provide learners and experts an opportunity to learn and teach in ways their prior generation never had. The learners today have quick access to answers and research. However, this access is also affecting them physically, emotionally, socially and psychologically at times. Like anything in this world the technologies have got some inherent merits and demerits. The future is the age of technologies. As applicable in every walk of life nothing can be entirely advantageous only. When technologies have got a large number of advantages, they are bound to have some disadvantages as well. The matter of fact is that the future technologies in the context of social science and media in future education are a hard reality of the day and how the future generation makes best use for mankind or puts them to misuse for the discomfort of the future generation, is to be decided by man only. It’s up to educators, media men, administrators, and leaders to decide whether the good outweighs the bad or vice versa.