Technology is everywhere you turn and it's taking over the classroom, too!
Positive Impacts of Technology
Technology has many positive effects on education. The list is long and will continue to grow, for now I'll highlight just a few positive impacts that technology has on education.With technology in the classroom, the traditional student and teacher roles have evolved. The student has become a lot more active and engaged. The teacher is no longer relaying information in a lecture-style manner where the student has to commit this information to memory, but rather teachers are using technology to enhance and engage their students. Technology helps students collaborate with other students and their teachers in and outside of the classroom quickly and easily.
Personalized learning is improved with the help of technology, too. Lessons can be customized to fit each student’s progress and learning style. Through these learning tools educators can provide opportunities for students to be able to work and excel at their own level and pace.
Technology is transforming the face of education as I write.
Negative Impacts of Technology
With a technology-enabled classroom there comes more chance of distractions for students. Games on devices, text messaging, email and websites are all areas that take attention away from the subject on which they are supposed to be focusing. Technology can also lead to dangerous situations as students can be exposed to inappropriate online materials or online predators in chat rooms, etc.Students can also rely on their mobile devices or a web site to find answers to questions that may be asked of them by their teachers. Students can just look up the answers to questions and copy them down word for word. They are simply repeating information instead of learning concepts and ideas. When students do this, they do not actually learn the material.
What a wonderful post! It was clear and easy to understand and you went beyond the surface level of technology and focused on the why and how it supports students in their growth. I am also a sucker for quotes. :)
ReplyDeleteNow that you've learned more about technology, which technology tool is your favorite and will you use it in your classroom?
ReplyDeleteI'm really liking everything I've learned in this class so far, but I thought the screencasting tool was pretty cool. I will definitely be using this tool as a teacher with my students to explain my classrrom web site and where they can find weekly spelling tests, assignments, etc. It's a great tool when teachers are working with parents, too, to explain how to do an assignment or how to find things on the classroom web site.
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