Laptops: The Rise or Fall of Student Learning?
Introduction-
Many schools are switching to a more technological based way of teaching. A computer for every student is a goal that has been discussed for years among politicians and educators. Despite the numerous calls to meet this goal, most school systems in the US have fallen short. Indeed, some school systems have attempted and scrapped laptop programs as unmanageable. Even with the difficulties involved, laptops improve the education of students in schools.
Debate & WATCO- There are still many schools that have not switched to doing the majority of work on computers and there are people that say this is a good thing. They argue they are an expensive and distracting waste of time. “When …show more content…
It is far easier to revise papers using word processing software than it is using pen and paper. Spell and grammar checks find larger problems before peer editing even takes place. There are websites you can go to that also will spell and grammar-check your paper. Computers give you many ways to make sure your paper has little to no flaws, allowing you to spend more time on the quality of your paper than checking for small mistakes. Keeping track of sources and organizing references using websites like Citefast and Easybib are more convenient than old fashioned ways, when you had to go through the tedious process of writing out sources. There is no problem moving sentences or even whole paragraphs from one part of the paper to another without rewriting the whole thing like you have to do with pen and paper (Keppler, Weiler & Maas 284). When you are finished your paper can be printed out or turned in …show more content…
Wasatch high school is not the only school to have seen this rise in performance after introducing laptops to their student’s curriculum. A middle school in South Carolina let its students choose between doing their work on laptops or on pen and paper. A study they conducted showed students that chose laptops had a 50 percent higher grade point average (Gulek and Demirtas
Introduction-
Many schools are switching to a more technological based way of teaching. A computer for every student is a goal that has been discussed for years among politicians and educators. Despite the numerous calls to meet this goal, most school systems in the US have fallen short. Indeed, some school systems have attempted and scrapped laptop programs as unmanageable. Even with the difficulties involved, laptops improve the education of students in schools.
Debate & WATCO- There are still many schools that have not switched to doing the majority of work on computers and there are people that say this is a good thing. They argue they are an expensive and distracting waste of time. “When …show more content…
It is far easier to revise papers using word processing software than it is using pen and paper. Spell and grammar checks find larger problems before peer editing even takes place. There are websites you can go to that also will spell and grammar-check your paper. Computers give you many ways to make sure your paper has little to no flaws, allowing you to spend more time on the quality of your paper than checking for small mistakes. Keeping track of sources and organizing references using websites like Citefast and Easybib are more convenient than old fashioned ways, when you had to go through the tedious process of writing out sources. There is no problem moving sentences or even whole paragraphs from one part of the paper to another without rewriting the whole thing like you have to do with pen and paper (Keppler, Weiler & Maas 284). When you are finished your paper can be printed out or turned in …show more content…
Wasatch high school is not the only school to have seen this rise in performance after introducing laptops to their student’s curriculum. A middle school in South Carolina let its students choose between doing their work on laptops or on pen and paper. A study they conducted showed students that chose laptops had a 50 percent higher grade point average (Gulek and Demirtas