Breanne Ejaus
Cathy Miller
English 110, 2998
10 December 2014
Does Technology Affect Our Learning? Computer and technology can be a great asset in helping the way students learn, but should computers be used in class as a teaching tool? This is a topic that students and teachers are hotly debating and arguing about. Today, classroom teachers are using technology in classrooms more frequently then before. Computers and technology can help students with their homework and research, but computers can also be a distraction to students if they are not being used properly in class. It seems that as the years go by, technology continues to have more and more of an effect on us. Advancing technology has completely taken over a student’s learning ability. Despite all the benefits we achieve through technology, it has shown significant effects, both positive and negative, in classrooms. I believe that computers should not be allowed in a classroom because students won’t get their assignments done, it is a distraction to both students and teachers, and it can also get in the way of the teacher effectively conveying the lessons to students. …show more content…
In school, teachers want their students to use basic skills to become a better writer. They also want them to recognize spelling errors, grammar mistakes, and bad sentences in their writing so they can fix the errors themselves and learn from it. David Gelernter wrote in his article, Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills, “While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student’s arithmetic or correct his spelling” (2). Computers have software that will fix all the students’ mistakes with just one click away, and students will not have to put in any of their effort to find their
Cathy Miller
English 110, 2998
10 December 2014
Does Technology Affect Our Learning? Computer and technology can be a great asset in helping the way students learn, but should computers be used in class as a teaching tool? This is a topic that students and teachers are hotly debating and arguing about. Today, classroom teachers are using technology in classrooms more frequently then before. Computers and technology can help students with their homework and research, but computers can also be a distraction to students if they are not being used properly in class. It seems that as the years go by, technology continues to have more and more of an effect on us. Advancing technology has completely taken over a student’s learning ability. Despite all the benefits we achieve through technology, it has shown significant effects, both positive and negative, in classrooms. I believe that computers should not be allowed in a classroom because students won’t get their assignments done, it is a distraction to both students and teachers, and it can also get in the way of the teacher effectively conveying the lessons to students. …show more content…
In school, teachers want their students to use basic skills to become a better writer. They also want them to recognize spelling errors, grammar mistakes, and bad sentences in their writing so they can fix the errors themselves and learn from it. David Gelernter wrote in his article, Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills, “While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student’s arithmetic or correct his spelling” (2). Computers have software that will fix all the students’ mistakes with just one click away, and students will not have to put in any of their effort to find their