Miken Foundation
in 1999 said that technology and telecommunications networks filling every inch of
our live. It is true that new technology flows every part of our daily, it
means very important. Technology plays main role in many field such as
political, cultural, economic, social institution, etc. Because it contains
information. The resulting information, knowledge and economic development
are positive benefits. These initiatives reflect a political, cultural and
economic will on the part of participating institutions and individuals.This information is deeply multi-function to
access anything worthy.
Technology is a tool
in creating global learning by one click. Through technology it will breakdown
geographical, economical, language, and time-zone barrier. The example,
over a four-year period (1997-2000), the WorLD Program will
link 1200 secondary schools in 40 developing countries in South American,
Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East with partner schools in Australia,
Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States. Currently, there are 150 pilot
schools connected in 14 developing countries, partnered with schools in 22
other countries. 780 Teachers have been trained to date. The program is active
in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Lebanon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Paraguay,
Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, and Zimbabwe (World Bank, 1999). Fortunately, the technologist
create the intelligence tool to help students more easily hold the globe. It is Peer-to-Peer video conferencing. They can communicate with other friend in other
side of the world. How fascinating! Through the use of Peer-to-Peer video conferencing, students can
study new languages and to learn about cultural differences while building a
global support network. Other example because of technology is educational accessing information and best practice research is plentiful .
Educators in developing countries face several challenges in access to staff
development. Long distance/high cost travel, visa acquisition, and prohibitive
professional journal costs present insurmountable difficulties. Technology
allows these barriers to be overcome, however.
By way of
technology, it is also an opportunity to engage young children in
an ongoing exploration of the world. They have the ability to expose children to
concepts of diversity, multiculturalism, and multilingualism at an early age. In this level, the children can choose to continue their high school careers
"cybernetically" by accessing various distance education courses. It can be done by sending text,
voice, and images are transferred with a click on a cellular phone or a
computer.
By the needs of
students in this global era are complicated and challenging, they can improve their language skills through student-to-student
conversations regardless of where they live. Communication through
speaking is a very important element. A global contact network built from having
personal conversations with other students around the world will provide
lasting benefits throughout the student’s career. They communicate with
people in remote parts of the world and read documents without physically
holding them. Social interaction helps build connections for a better world.
Absolutely, for
those who is using the technology in good ways, they will get high praise using
this online access tools provide from internet. Networking is not only for
local area but also from many sources moreover around the world. My lecturer
ever said that “Please, make a friend with other people from overseas, you’ll
find out what will you get later. It is the magic of making good-networking
with them.” Even though the friends of yours are far away over there, with
technology all are settled well. By clicking some sites in internet, you are
connecting with them. What a nice life!
Besides the
advantages, the technology brings us some unhappy feeling. Such as the fear
about nothing. While it is bad news from abroad, the local citizen in other
country will feel the weird atmosphere. Further,
the information can cause problem and make noisy for some countries. The worst
thing is causing air pollution, it makes our earth change the climate
apparently.
Facing the
reality that technology brings us to the darkness, we must be aware. Thee important behavior is
to strengthen the relationship of each country around the world. It keeps the world
in peace. The way can be by youth. Young generation (I mean students) are acquiring other languages and learning
about other cultures and customs. My friends and I from English Education have
already done the performance about knowing and learning the diversity, multiculturalism, and multilingualism from overseas. We learned CCU (one of courses, the abbreviation for
Cross-Cultural Understanding). Our ability to educate
and prepare the world’s future leaders in politics, business, and education
along with our determination to set positive examples for the value of
democracy, civility, and human rights can shape the future of the world. That’s why, we need it in order to
support the information globalize in modern technology era.
