Successfully Using Technology as a Student

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Successfully Using Technology as a Student
The importance of using technology in the classroom is becoming increasingly important. As technology continues to evolve it becomes more and more imperative that it’s integrated in the classrooms as well. This allows for children who do not have access to technology at home the opportunity to learn these technologies that they will need their entire student careers. To have the advantages of technology available to some kids, and not to others gives those with the privilege of computers, etc… an advantage. The way that life is now, there is not man jobs, or many aspects of life in general that do not require the use of a computer, or even something more advanced. Not only do people who are technologically savvy have a leg up in the career force, but they also have the LEG UP with new technologies that come out. There are so many amazing pieces of technology that aid in learning and are beneficial to the learning environment. As more and more technologies are invented it becomes more and more important that it is integrated
Though there are a good deal of positive side effects of technology, and plenty of reasons that it should be assimilated into the classroom, however, where there are positives there are also negatives. There are arguments that using too much technology hinders creativity. Another dispute against a lot of technology use is that it encourages laziness. A great point was brought up by Wenglinsky (2005) that having technology in of itself is not a benefit. That the way it is used is more important to the successfulness of using it in the classroom. In the book Using Technology Wisely, there are two approaches to teaching that vary, the constructivist approac...

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Using technology certainly has changed the way we learn today! Between changing how we go to school, to how we learn, there is certainly no limit to how it can help improve the capability to learn!

References
Clyde, W., & Delohery, A. (2005). Using technology in teaching. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Daly, J. (2012). How technology is powering academic success. Retrieved from http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2012/10/how-technology-powering-academic-success-infographic
Goldman, S. & Lucas, R. (2012). Issues in the transformation of teaching with technology. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012(1), 1792-1800 Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/39848
Wenglinsky, H. (2005). Using technology wisely: The keys to success in schools. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

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