Well, technology has become an inseparable part of our lives and it’s of course used in many fields like advertisement, healthcare and education. Education is a crucial part of our lives from the age of three or four to 18 years old. We get a compulsory education and in that education we learn our most basic skills such as simple mathematics problems, some literature, some history of the world and of our own country, etc. But what is the place of technology in education? Well, technology in education actually to me had an important part of it during the pandemic. That was a time that people were not able to leave their houses so that we couldn’t go to school to get educated and then these online meeting programs and online teaching programs entered our lives and an advantage of technology was that even from our safety of our houses we were able to get educated. But what was a disadvantage? Well, the disadvantage of education was during that time plagiarism and cheating has become a whole issue on a whole new level because you can’t check it.
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Well, technology has become an inseparable part of our lives and it's, of course, used in many fields like advertising, healthcare, and education. Education is a crucial part of our lives from the age of three or four to 18 years old. We receive a compulsory education, and in that education, we learn our most basic skills such as simple mathematics, literature, the history of the world, and of our own country, etc. But what is the place of technology in education? Well, technology in education actually had an important role during the pandemic. That was a time when people were not able to leave their houses, so we couldn't go to school to get educated. Then these online meeting programs and online teaching programs entered our lives, and an advantage of technology was that even from the safety of our houses, we were able to get educated. But what was a disadvantage? Well, the disadvantage of education during that time was that plagiarism and cheating became a whole issue on a new level because you couldn't check it.
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