It's only good because we now live in a technological world.  As far as the “need” for it in education, the highest form of technology required are books, paper, pencils, and a desk.

I would say that technology has made it so that you don?t need to know the basics the way you used to, so a lot of students don?t bother as much. However, it has also made it possible for those who are hungry for knowledge to gain a great deal more. I?d say there is a wider gap nowadays. The slackers can slack more so they?re further behind, but the scholars can learn more so they?re further ahead.

As with anything else there are advantages and disadvantages to technology.  I think we should look at technology as a tool just like any other.  It does not make people smarter but it does not make them dumber either.  I think also that in many ways technology, especially the internet, has tended to make peoples level of knowledge much more shallow.  We are probably all guilty of using Google to find a fact and then not going any farther once we have found the fact or snippet of information we are looking for.  At the same time, we can use the internet to get a wealth of information if we take the time to really dig.  It is almost a case of information overload; who has not started searching for one thing and found themsleves looking at something completely different than they originally intended when they cam out the other side of the rabbit hole?  For example, the other day I wanted to look up historical inflation numbers and ended up an hour or so later perusing the Wookiepedia and reading about the Star Wars canon.I have a mixed view of technology.  In the end, I think it comes down to the individual.  like anything else, it is a case of we get out of it what we put into it.

Do you think we had this same discussion 30-40-50 years ago?  Does the incorporation of microfiche in the college library erode the students' abilities to conduct research and learning where to find information?Does the use of the overhead projector and transparencies erode the professor's lecture skills?  Is oratory dying because professors now use transparencies, pictures, and projected text instead of straight lecture?  Does it erode the Socratic method?Word processors!  Don't get me started!  Not only do word processors mean an erosion of typing skills, they allow students to write their papers at the last minute and not give their papers the appropriate proof reading!(okay, seriously, proof reading has gone down the toilet as a lost skill with the advent of "spell check" - most students I know are in desperate need of a "homonym checker"!).As mentioned above, technology has acclerated research - allowing historians unprecedented access to documents and resources.  However, as always, there are good students/historians and bad/lazy students/historians.  Technology makes plaigerism much easier to execute (and much easier to catch).  It allows people to take shortcuts in place of adding efficiencies.

There is no “lazy” student. All kids are eager to learn, discover.How to keep their attention without being a "clown" today when everything is a kind of temptation to make people brainless, just consumers ... ?

There were several hundred lazy students at the University of Central Florida. 🙂

I assume you are being tongue in cheek here?  I can name several "lazy" students that I know personally; one of them is my son who seems to think that knowledge will jump into his brain with no effort on his part.  His recent grades prove the fallacy of that notion.

I think I confused about what you meant by student : If it's about High School, College and University students, well I agree that some of them may be called lazy.  I was thinking more about "pupils" (even if it's not easier with them, different I think). Lack of vocabulary knowledge , my bad !