Educational Technology, Potentials, Expectations and Challenges

Great advances in technology have opened new horizons in the field of education for teachers and learners. Many up - dated themes have evolved in relation to independent self- learning far learning and implementation of technology in classrooms through smart boards and usage of on- line resources in addition to learners indulgence in social media networking, I Pad learning and many other forms of acquiring knowledge through different channels that minimize the role of teachers or even substitute it completely especially in interactive programs. Many people therefore became advocates of the idea claiming that technology is the language of this age so undoubtedly it should be used primarily in addressing the young generation who understand it well enough without the need for an instructor whose authority in the classroom has worn away. However, many other people deeply believe that technology can never impart the values of disciplines, punctuality and many other life essentials that a teacher can communicate to learners. They claim that learning doesn’t only involve receiving information but rather adapting the skills of critical thinking that allow learners to assimilate knowledge and relate it to their own experiences .It is the art of life through perceiving knowledge and it is a job that only teachers can do. In such a struggle for dominance who will survive, the human, the master who invented the machine or his invention? Will the invention surpass its inventor? Will teachers survive the competition with technology? Or is there no conflict at all? In my research I will try to put aside all my favouritism of teachers over machines to try to answer the above questions as transparently as possible through all the means known to me of collecting information, revising the literature related then doing the analysis and evaluation needed to deliver my research results, citing the references I used as objectively as possible.