INTRODUCTION: Gone are the days
when students walked hundreds of miles to get to a school, combine tons of
notes for different subjects, struggle for hours to get assignments done, waste
a lot of time getting textbooks copied, recover lectures of absent days by
enervating sections of note copying, get tired and fool-off to sleep without
getting anything worthwhile doing; technological innovations are erasing this
tiresome,
challenging, demanding and irritating era completely. Indeed, the
importance of technology on schooling and other various aspects of our lives
cannot be overemphasized. It is therefore imperative that we do a quick and
effectively long-lasting review on these uses and how to improve them for the
benefit of not only the students, but the society at large.
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY: Oxford
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines the word technology as scientific
knowledge used in practical ways in industry, for example in designing new
machines. It goes further to explain that technology is any machinery or
equipment designed using technology.
The two definitions outlined above are
directly proportional to the course of this study. Technology has become an
integral part of our daily life, it affects almost every aspect of our lives;
its influence on us is undeniable. Technological infrastructures affect the
culture, efficiency and relationships between individuals. Our entire life now
depends on the usage of a machine or the other; ranging from clothing, food
production and agriculture to housing, business, transportation,
telecommunication and the likes.
Also, Productiveness is the ratio of
outputs to inputs. It means doing or achieving a lot; resulting in or causing
something. Productiveness is the ability to make complete and total use of your
potential, thereby resulting in the existence of a desired result. It will be
noteworthy to mention here that productiveness as a word means different things
to different people. It may mean the production of goods to a farmer, or
accumulation of income to an enterpriser. But to a student, which is the main
concentration of this study, productiveness may mean achieving a lot of
educative feats, with the existence of stress and restiveness reduced to the
barest minimum. It is exemplified in getting the best of grades, passing
examinations in one sitting, becoming a young inventor and getting a high
degree of intellectual quotients.
Most students, if not all, wants to be
the best in everything they do. When you ask a male student what his wish is,
he tells you, “I wanna be good, lead my class; make my teachers and my parents
proud...” Similarly, the mentality of productiveness affects them in the choice
of their future career. Almost all students I have seen want to either be a
doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a nurse. The choice of their future career all
comes done to the sense of productivity and the potential they carry. So, the
issue of educational productivity and students cannot be separated, it’s
essential. But it’s worrisome and somewhat sorrowful to see that the harder
students try to climb, the higher the ladder of educational study goes.
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