Technology and Humanism

Technology comes from a latin word teknologia w/c means

systematic treatment or craft.

Objectives :•Explain how technology could be a boon or bane; and•Point ways on how to increase humanism while using technology

What is Humanism?•a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith.

Technology in Education• Video cameras•Compact discs•Computers•Chalkboards•Overheard projectors/ LCD, etc..

Threat on technology

• A dilemma is at hand. While there is overdependence of life in the advanced industrial countries on technology, there is a threat that the same tech will destroy the quality of life in modern society and endanger society itself.

EXAMPLES ARE:

Technological Industries

Internet Crimes

Negative Effects to the Environment

Communication Gaps

Television Violence and Falsity

• “We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.”

- John M. Culkin-

Questions arise like :

• What has man, who is the author of technology, done to his fellowmen?

• Is technology bound to create and then later destroy?

• Is technology a blessing or a curse?

• A form of exploitation of human beings? And

• Is technology dehumanizing man?

Technology and Education

The ordinary classroom is a potential place where technology and the issue of humanism could across.

Now........

Does technology really dehumanize us?

How can we maintain HUMANISM at this technology stage?