A silent menace is creeping into the lives of America’s youth. It can be found on the streets. This addiction-creating snare is passed around at the movie theater when nobody seems to be watching. Paranoid teenagers sneak time in with it in school bathrooms and parking lots. Once-innocent kids are fully ensnared until the early hours of morning. Their red eyes and blank stares note a problem, but only after it is discovered, it is too late. This menace is not reefer or any other drug. It is technology, a new threat. No field advances as rapidly as technology. The newest iPhones and tablets are being introduced into many individuals’ work and personal lives. The most natural progression seems to be the integration of and focus upon technology in public schools. However, a hasty transition into a tech world may be dangerous. Technology use produces a number of negative consequences in the classroom because it enables students to become dependent, prevents effective reinforcement of topics taught in class, and places both societal and classroom minorities at an extreme disadvantage. Despite the advantages of having the extent of man’s knowledge at one’s fingertips, technology is not the best learning tool within the classroom. On a university-sponsored TEDTalk, Stephen Tonti said “We have to teach kids to teach themselves. It’s the best things we can do for our kids…. Our society has to embrace cognitive diversity.” There are three major types of learners: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. If one places the three types of learners in a science lab course, they retain information very differently. Auditory learners thrive when the teacher describes with brilliant imagery wheat happens when muscle fibers contract. Visual learners w... ... middle of paper ... ...ryone in a poor position. Another problem on the productivity side deals with the teachers instead of students: often times, technology gives the educators a way to pay less attention to students and do less teaching. Instead of explaining a lecture, it would be just as simple to send the students links to a YouTube video that covers the main topic. The greatest teaching tool would be a downloadable app instead of the marker on the board. Technology would begin to replace human interaction in the classroom. Even more troubling, a number of students would begin to “act out” in a negative, attention-seeking manner. Technology is simply less personal. An unspoken focus of school is student-teacher interaction. The teachers become trustable authority figures and example setters. Many kids crave emotional connections at school because they are unable to get them at home.
With all of the technological advances there are more things smartphones, computers, etc. can do. More things to distract us from what we need to do. In the article “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction” Matt Richtel builds his argument by using the anecdotes of a few specific high school students and teachers. Richtel also understands his audience because he develops the article in a way where readers are introduced to the topic of digital media’s effect on students with sufficient and reliable information.
Technology is affecting the very way we act whether you realize it or not. Many argue that using technology makes you more likely to not be socially isolated. Gardner Middle School should undergo in national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” due to technology beginning to be an uncontrollable urge, affect to way we act, as well as resulting in a difficulty focusing.
Today, technology is all around us, with computers, laptops, and phones just at our fingertips, and though teens seem to be obsessed with their screens, their electronics time should not be very strictly controlled. It would be ridiculous and ineffective to try to keep kids’ heads out of their screens, exemplified by Chris Bergman as he states, “Sadly… I was limited to an hour of screen… But that only fueled covert binging” (Bergman, 1). His screen time was severely restricted, which only caused a higher craving for it. This shows that not only is the suppressing of electronics fruitless, but it actually causes a heightening of the need for a screen! Contrastingly, Bergman’s children have no constraints on their
We live in an age of technology. Like it or not, technology is quickly changing the way people access information, communicate, and learn. So with this new tool in just about everyone’s hands, why shouldn’t schools use technology to provide better education to students'? Schools should keep in mind the type of technology, the future of human interactions, and the high quality of learning provided by tech. The world is ever becoming smaller thanks to technology.
Children love to learn! When parents and teachers take a moment to think about the best ways to engage children and students into learning, technology is usually a main resource used to pull children of all ages into active learning, and at times helps them retain more information due to the visual aspect of technology. According to Morgan, approximately 65% of the population are visual learners as well as 90% of the information that comes to the brain is vi...
Tablets and iPads are being used in elementary schools to advance the technology in classrooms. Some say that these devices are being used in classrooms because elementary students in this generation are already using these devices at home for learning. Schools all over the United States have begun to carry out million dollar plans to supply their students with Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung electronic “notebooks”. Many schools have hopped on the bandwagon and decided to incorporate iPads and Tablets into their curriculum. Middle and high schools have introduced the idea of using tablets and iPads but only as an alternative to carrying big books. Elementary schools have no legitimate reason to use these expensive devices. Unlike middle and high schools, these devices will only serve as a distraction to young students. iPads and Tablets should not be used in elementary classrooms for learning purposes because they create a distraction, eliminate the traditional ways of learning, include applications that may not portray the right ideas, and there are many difficulties that come with electronic devices.
Every day we deal with technology whether it is checking our phones or typing a paper. People these days cannot live without their phone in their pocket. Although this might sound like a bad thing it is not, technology has many extremely useful benefits but also some downfalls. We see in Sources A, B, and D many ways that technology has been introduced into schools that are very beneficial but these schools must also be careful due to the fact that technology can also be harmful.
As technologies such as cellular phones and computers advance, they are becoming an important and permanent part of society. Today’s youth are growing up in an information age, and many school districts are beginning to consider whether or not the incorporation of technology would be beneficial. However, in the ongoing debates, school officials should consider the potential for technology to distract students, as well as its potential to destroy societal traditions, over the benefits it could provide.
One of the major controversies in education that has been happening for years, and still happens to this day is the way the system is structured. Including technology into a learning environment could be a way of fixing this problem. It would facilitate teachers to educate students in various ways. So that no matter what their way of learning is the information will stick in their brain. Knowing that each child learns differently and being able to include multiple ways of showing one topic would form a feeling of belonging in all the students in the classroom. For example, when I was in school, and even today when I volunteer in elementary schools all the kids are taught the same way and are expected to learn. They are all sitting in front of the board and the teacher is up there showing them all
According to Todd Gitlin, he estimates, technology users see at minimum “160 short units of mass-mediated [messages] per day”, not including the many forms not associated with an hour of watching television (Gitlin 155-156). This outrageous exposure to many forms of disorderly media aimed towards the minds of sponge-like individuals, is unnecessary. Synthesize the number of computers in a high school and this leads to a classroom full of unwanted distractions. Even more prevalent, electronical assignments and due dates have come increasingly more powerful. Seldom do I go through a class period, let alone a whole school day, where I do not use my Chromebook. The growing influences in the way we use technology in a learning environment has become less helpful as technology
As technology is emerging into all places of people’s lives, it is becoming a way of life. By taking proper precautions, personal computers and tablets can be used as an effective learning tool in classrooms without worrying about cost and distraction. The effectiveness of these devices is shown through higher test scores and better classroom environments. In fact, technology does not just allow students to stay connected with family and friends, they are also an excellent tool for learning, and they encourage the responsible use of technology. As you can see, technology should be implemented into schools to improve education.
Schools throughout the world have been incorporating technology into the classrooms of students for quite a few years. Teachers use technology as a tool to help students use different programs and to find information for various things. In this day in age, the internet is so advanced that students can finish assignments in less time because they have the ability to type and research online. Before technology, students had to search through books at the library and handwrite or use typewriters to finish assignments which took longer and could become more of a hassle if a mistake was made. There are many advantages and disadvantages with incorporating technology in the classroom. Advantages to using technology in the classroom include, it is easier to find a larger quantity of information for various assignments, it makes learning more fun for students, it helps students learn at their own pace which helps them to accelerate when
Technology has progressively become an enormous part of our everyday lives. Between the Internet, television, and countless handheld devices available, technology has effectively altered our sense of people, time, and space. Society has increasingly become more and more dependent on technological advances and creations. Numerous aspects of our daily lives, such as communication, business, and education are constantly changing due to the rapid advancements in technology. This rapid change could potentially be harmful to adolescents and society as a whole. As a result of the increased use of technology throughout the years, society has become lazy, dependent, and unable to effectively think without the aid of a technological device. In many ways, modern technology has had the effect of making us work harder, just to stay in the same place.
“New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.” quoted by David Wong, an American humor writer and novelist elucidates that technology is in the power of the beholder and whether they abuse the power that is granted to users, or not. There has been many arguments on the topic of technology making us “dumb,” whereas; many arguments stating that technology and the accessories it has produced, has made us more intellectual. It is dependent on how the user is taking the advantage of the sources linked to the smartphone. In this generation and more to come as technology continues to grow, the children and teens will have access to objects that will think for them and to have just about anything
There was a time when learning was slowed down by the limitations of books and whiteboards, but we now know this is not the case because of the innovation of today’s technology.