Question #1 – How is technology used in education? (overall)
Question #2 - How do you personally use technology in aiding your learning at NJIS (during school, homework, etc)?
Question #3 – Does technology improve your education or create more complexity (therefore becoming a negative aspect)?
1. Technology is used in education in many ways. For example, sometimes a TV and a DVD player is used in class to show videos on the subjects we are learning to make us have a clearer idea of what we are learning. Most cable TV’s also have National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and other channels alike, which help students become more interested in that paticular unit that they are learning ( Science and Social Studies mostly). Others include computers, telephones, cellphones, and electronic dictionaries or translators. We use computers for research (encyclopedias, dictionaries, and search engines) , to look up what is for homework if we forget it (on the NJIS moodle site), to graph using Microsoft Excel, to make presentations using Powerpoint, edit photos or pictures with Adobe Photoshop, and to type using Microsoft Word. Using computers save time because you don’t have to find things in the encyclopedia, you can type instead of write, and you can make graphs much quicker. Telephones and cellphones are sometimes for calling or text messaging friends to ask help for homework or study for a test over the phone. Electronic dictionaries and translators save time because you don’t have to search for the word in a book. The dictionary or translator finds the word for you.
2. I sometimes use technology for aiding my education by looking up things in online encyclopedias like Encarta or Brittanica, using search engines like Yahoo or Google, looking at homework tips, and typing using Microsoft Word (which helps A LOT with English and French). I also watch television for informative and eductaional shows on National Geographic, Discovery and Animal Planet. Some of the shows on there have to do with what we are learning at school and I can get extra information which I can use if one of my teachers asks the class something that they don’t know.
3. Everything including technology has its pros and cons. Well, the good things are that it can make things easier by reducing the time used to do thing. Computers help us find things, gets information to other people faster and we can type things faster. Cellphones also gets information to other people faster which helps me to get help or information faster by sms or calling. Televisions help us learn faster and things are easier to memorise because it’s not as boring as a book and more entertaining. Electric translators and dicionaries, like I said in the two other answers, just save us time for looking up things.
Technology can also be a negative aspect in technology. Here are a few problems I encounter at home. If I’m searching on a search engine like Google, I sometimes get results I don’t want, even sometimes when it is specific. Another problem I get when I am working on the computer is that when I go on the internet, I start going to websites playing games which I and most people find is VERY time consuming. 
Problems with telephones are pretty much the same as the problem I just mentioned about using the internet. When I’m on the phone sometimes, either me or my friend suddenly talks about something not related to homework.
