Should Students Have iPads
For the past decade, technology has been advancing, so has the educational systems. Putting those two together may have not been the greatest idea of the century. Their are so many negative effects that technology can bring to schools. As a student, it understandable that we have to grow along with the technology to understand it for jobs in our near future. To mix it in with the education, as in do almost all of our homework on the iPads, is a bit extreme. A survey has been done with some teachers and students, 7 out of 11 people answered that we should get rid of these iPads. The other 4 have said it depends on the reason. IPads shouldn’t be used for education systems because they are causing financial problems
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During classes, students sometimes don’t do their homework. They, instead, go on their iPads and play games. I have tallied up some examples. About every ⅗ student's mess around on an electronic of some sort, mainly their iPads. They sometimes do this to make it look like they are actually doing the schoolwork they need to do. Another problem I have noticed is that notifications can distract a student from what the teacher is talking about. When their notification volume is up, you can hear a clear “ding”. Or they can see their iPad screens light up when they receive a notification from classroom or from their emails. Studies show that some students earned grades at a C or below, while only 23 percent of children who used media for less than three hours per day suffered from the same bad grades. If parents were to find this our, they would be furious, and that’s an understatement. Lastly, students can be influenced to play games and look random things up on the iPads instead of doing their homework at home. Schools have now given a student another piece of technology to distract a student at home. These students At first there were TV’s, radios, phones, and gaming systems. Now there are iPads to add onto it. These iPads have added a factor that can disrupt a student, even if their intention was to help
Where ever you live and whatever grade you teach, technology has made it into the lives of teachers and students. Whether it is an ebook, laptop, iPad, computer, or Smartboard, they all have brought teaching literacy to a new level. These tools are not going to leave our classrooms, if anything they will impact the learning at new and higher levels. There will come a day, and I think it will be soon, that every student will have access to their own technology devices at school and at home. As teachers, we need to embrace technology and try and stay ahead of our students if possible.
Students are not entitled to solutions to every problem that may come about as a result of their choosing to use technology; if a student chooses to use technology than it is their responsibility to solve those problems for themselves.For example, just because a teacher allows computers in class, it does not mean that the teacher must also supply a way for the students to charge their computers if the situation may arise that one needs to charge her computer; this is the student’s responsibility and she must solve the problem on her own. Computers do offer easily accessible distractions during class if they are used for note taking, however if a student chooses to be distracted by their computer and use it for the purpose of entertainment instead of notes taking then it will show when it comes test time and they don’t have the notes to study. Students that are easily distracted by what is happening in front of them and would be distracted if another student were to use a computer in class can simply choose not to sit behind a student that uses technology to take
If you were to ask some high school students, “Have you ever looked up a sports score or checked your Twitter feed in class on your phone or computer?” what do you think their answer would be? The answers from most, if not all, of the students would be “yes”. Technology use has drastically increased over the past few years, and this dramatic increase is having its effects on classrooms. With online textbooks, homework, and lectures, it is inevitable for it to have an effect. Technology is rising at a rapid pace, and it is rapidly being integrated into secondary classrooms in many forms, such as online textbooks, homework, and lectures. Because of this swift incorporation of technology, high school students have a decreased focus in the classroom, have decreased motivation and patience, and it has changed the roles of teachers and students, in addition to having negative effects on a students’ writing and spelling skills.
It can cause many distractions, it can be difficult to use and can take away from learning time. People are convinced that technology is an effective tool that will further learning. This can be true, but when you use tablets and different devices in class for an hour every day, the students will not be focused on schoolwork. In the article “Technology in the Classroom: Beginnings and Endings”, Mary Ann Matras suggests that, “The pencil is still the most efficient tool”.
Buzzzzzzzzzz! Another cellphone is going off in the middle of class, causing her to blush and discreetly check her new text message. A virtual conversation is buzzing back and forth inside one classroom and into the classroom across the hall, having a discussion about the party that night or the lipstick color chosen at the mall. In another classroom, a student posts the answers to the English exams on her profile page, allowing all of her buddies to read and use for their time of the exam. There are multiple examples of students using their cell phones during class time to communicate their thoughts, images of their environment or dangerous crimes. In addition, the percentage of students with cellphones now soars to about 80% (Ban). This highly increases the chance for students to have a cell phones on them during school. Cell phones can also be harmful to students during class, taking them into another world of technology, separated from the classroom, and turning them down a road of decisions they never intended on doing. Overall, cell phones alter classroom learning in a negative way, and should be banned from use in the classroom at all schools.
When we step foot into our home, we are surrounded by technology, whether it is a television or a telephone sitting on the counter. Once we walk outside we are surrounded by many with a phone in their hand, wrapped in a world full of technology that seems to improve our lives. We have become engaged in a society that is dependent on technology to work, to study, to live. Before thinking to introduce technology such as tablets, Chromebooks, or technology that gets rid of textbooks in school curriculums, such establishments should consider whether it will limit student's development, make them too dependable on technology, or if it is truly necessary in order to teach. Such factors should be taken into consideration before introducing revolutionary
Many people’s back throb in pain from the amount of textbook they carry in their backpack. In my junior year, I used to carry three textbooks because of my Advanced Placement classes. Every year, millions of young children and teenagers develop back problems due to the unpleasant weight of the backpack. While children continues to have back problems, engineers develop light-weight, sustainable laptops. Millions of trees are being cut down to produce more textbooks.
In an ever growing world being filled with new technology every day we have to bring in the new and out with the old. One of these old things we should get rid of is school textbooks and replace them with tablets. At a first glance of this argument it seems stupid because we’ve used textbooks for as long as we all can remember but a lot has changed in a little amount of time. In the twenty first century we’ve gone from giant computers that could do very little commands to mobile devices that can access the internet anytime with the touch of a button, and this can all fit in your pocket. Textbooks are big, bulky books that are a pain to students. The tablet is a great innovation that the school system should use them because it is an all around smarter choice than textbooks. Tablets are more beneficial to our education system because they weigh less than textbooks, it costs less to make tablets than to print textbooks, and tablets can update instantly to new editions.
Once electronics come into the world, students are unable to concentrate on learning and will not have enough practice in what their teachers are teaching them. Tablets can be a distraction and can also cause students to not do their schoolwork and can easily get out of it. Tablets can affect students during school and what they want to learn. According to decodedscience.com, Students may pay attention to apps, email, games, and websites instead of their teachers. 87% of K-12 teachers believe that "today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans. Many students in class may use the tablets as an advantage of doing whatever they want, and can also distract many students from their priority and work that they have to do. It states in procon.org that students have new available excuses, including: "the tablet broke/froze," "I forgot the tablet at home so I can't do schoolwork today," and "I couldn't find my charger." These excuses can cause trouble and will be harder from teachers to teach students when they never did their schoolwork, so the students didn’t get to practice on their own. When tablets overrule textbooks there is no telling what will happen to students while in school. Tablets will create threat to students when they replace it with textbooks. Knowing that there can be unsatisfactory once you hit the digital world and see the unknown secrets of one device that can show you everything. When you have a textbook in front of you, you don’t need to worry about any unsafe items that might pop up. Tablets are different on the other hand, so it’s safe for you to just stick to
Paper has officially been replaced with iPads. Just kidding, but there are over 1.5 million iPads that are being used in classrooms by students on a daily bases rather than using printed textbooks as main learning resources (Graduating With Technology). With recent advancements in technology, many school districts have turned the focus off traditional learning methods of using textbooks, and are now focusing on integrating the use of tablets and computers as the main means of learning for students. Technology is going to continue to advance throughout this digital age and is going to gain popularity within education, but there are questions arising of how effective technology is when used in the classroom. The opportunity of using new technology to enhance learning should be seized, but textbooks should not become extinct within the education system or become a secondary learning method due to tablets and other types of technology becoming more popular in the education system. Textbooks are reliable, they can be used by anyone, and there are enough textbooks for each student to have their own, and be able to take them home. Also, technology is impacting the way the brain receives information. Reading digital print isn't as productive for readers as printed text, and there is limited access to resources needed for tablets to be effective when used by students. While this is true there are benefits to using tablets and other forms of technology in the classroom. It is easier for teachers to have assignments emailed directly to them, or post assignments on the internet, the use of technology is required in many core classes, and textbooks are easily worn, and expensive.
Electronics are a huge part of our society. “Out of the world’s estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones” (Wang). Over thousands of these cell phones are owned by students K-12. A major debate topic is should cell phones be allowed in schools? “Twenty-four percent of schools have banned mobile devices altogether and sixty-two percent allow them on school grounds, but not in the classroom” (Raths). Cell phones should not be allowed in school because children focus more on the phone than schoolwork, it will create more drama, and it promotes cheating.
The use of smartphones in class affects students’ focus and academic performance in school and their relationship with their teachers. “Staying up all hours to play online games, letting homework slide and avoiding friendships in the real world are some symptoms to watch for in intense gamers” (Tamsyn). This shows that students who are obsessed with playing games on their smartphones (and other technologies) can be easily distracted from doing their homework and finishing their projects. When students also play too many video games, it can result to a lack of sleep which makes them come to school late and get moody. Teachers notice that some of their students’ marks are dropping due to students not handing in their assignments on time and not paying attention during classes. In...
On the forefront, some folks feel tablet utilization is less cost savvy than using textbooks for class resources. Costs for tablets include the device itself, wireless internet access, and resources such as electronic textbooks also known as e-textbooks. Though initial startup costs for tablets in the class room are high, e-textbooks cost about 50-60 percent less than print textbooks (Adams, 2004). Another element folks regard as concerning are the distractions associated with tablets in considering the wide variety of resources students will have at their fingertips. Will children be attempting to play games, chat via instant messengers or browse non-course related websites? The answer is no as schools work diligently to ensure students are browsing and working electronically via secured networks with strict permissions and monitoring to certify students are focusing on their studies. With regard to learning styles and pace, folks feel concern that retention is missing from tablet based learning. Some children are not yet familiar with reading content electronically, the limited group that is working towards a new style of reading can temporarily print content and read hard copies until their able to adapt to electronic reading. The final argument folks may have is that is that tablets may be difficult for the less tech-savvy student to
Technology has a great impact on the academic performance of a child. As much it’s an advantage for some, it’s also a curse for the other’s. There are many technological gadgets to which a child gets addicted to, using it more than they study and not caring about their studies, which can cause wastage of a great deal of valuable time. This results in
The twenty-first century has arrived, and it has brought some of the most advanced computing technologies into the classroom; this leaves us with a very important question, do we really need technology, such as iPads or computers, implemented in our learning plans? As a student that has taken entire courses on iPads or computers, I can tell you that the former is not the case. There are plenty of reasons to teach about technological advances in each individual field of learning, but, more often than not, technology is unreliable and distracting for students. Not to mention that methods of maintenance rehearsal, like taking notes by hand, are more effective for recollection of information than staring into a screen. The bottom line is, using technology as a tool for education in the classroom is not necessary because it can inhibit the way students learn material.