From Learning To Learning As Fun Don Tapscott Analysis

Technology is a Mixed Blessing When was the last time you checked your email, Facebook, or Twitter message? With an increasingly widespread use of technology, one may not notice that technology is a part of our everyday life for the most of us. Equally, one may not notice how much technology gains an influence in our education, both as a benefit and a distraction. In “From Learning as Torture to Learning as Fun,” author Don Tapscott believes that learning and fun can go hand in hand. Tapscott wants to tap into the benefit of technology to facilitate students’ learning. He equates fun as using technology to learn and working in a group. He believes technology can promote diversity by having social learning, and self-learning by reducing the interactions between students and teachers and that the students …show more content…
At the same, Tapscott asserts that a teacher’s role in students’ learning should be minimal by acting as a facilitator. On the other, Clifford Stoll, author of “Makes Learning Fun,” asserts a teacher’s role should be more traditional as before technology had a scene in our life or education. He does not equate learning as fun but a process of rigorous training, therefore, technology has no place in our classrooms. Stoll believes that technology only serves as a distraction for students’ learning; also, technology dulls our minds by promoting a “lack” of learning, and it only gives instant gratifications while “commercializing” school. Although both authors make valid arguments to a certain extent, their arguments are subjective since they only provided biased evidence. Technology should play a role in education but not replace a teacher. A good teacher not only teaches or facilitates but both, as well as knowing how to use the right tools to help facilitate students’ learning. Technology is one of these tools, it is a product of our rigorous learning, so we should use it to