From my personal experiences with technology in the classroom, I believe that technology is very exciting for students to use; particularly the computer, PowerPoint or internet. Because you are not sitting there 7-8hrs a day hearing a teacher talk with pencil and paper in hand; so boring. Students with various learning styles: visual and auditory learners, students with special needs, students with vision problems, students with hearing problems and many more are, able to benefit from this technology. As for teachers they are able to understand the writings because everything is mostly typed. Also it’s a different way to teach a subject that may be hard to teach or for students to understand in an auditory way, so you can use a software, power point or other websites to help.
However, technology in the classroom can cause a huge distraction. One moment your typing your research, then flicking on to face book, then flicking back to your research, this back and forth between typing your paper and searching face book or playing games can cause harm; such as having grammar errors in your paper, due to your attention not fully being there on your paper. Also it can create mental laziness because you’re not using your cognitive skills as much. You make a spelling error click spell check or you have a math problem, just plug in the problem into your graphing calculator. Another important thing is that when some students don’t understand the technology right away and struggle with it. Also when computers go down and there’s no one available to fix it immediately, that causes a problem and the teacher has to now think of another way to teach.
According to my past two blogs the similarities between them is that I am still amazed at how far technology has come and now that it has come this far; at first cassette tapes to cds to I-pods, I wonder what’s next. I really can’t picture life without it. I’m really excited to see how technology will continue to have an affect in the classroom and how it may affect teachers.
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Ashley, I agree with you on the fact that Technology is a very useful to way to stray away from the boring listening to a teacher lecture and learn that way. When teachers teach like that I think that students lose their focus easier. When there is technology, there is something for them to look at and pay attention too.
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