Mothers have always said that looking at a screen for too long will rot your brain, so they should not be used for education. Technology has revolutionized the way that people can learn and share new ideas, but online classes are taking the individuality out of education. In his article “Online Learning: The Ruin of Education” Alexander Spring discusses the problems with online classes and how money is apparently worth more than our minds.
Spring, a sophomore at Tufts University, emphasizes that teachers are wonderful tools that should be available to all students. A good teacher is what makes the material stick into the minds of students. Sadly, teachers are being replaced by computers and learning is being replaced with cheating. Spring argues that online classes should not be an acceptable way to teach because they give students the opportunity to cheat with the Internet at their fingertips. It also gives students the chance to procrastinate because most online classes give you all of …show more content…
Online classes take all of the one-on-one experience and learning out of the school system. Dumping kids into a computer lab is like treating themes if they were computers. Students can not be expected to sit in a chair, stare at a screen, and gain a quality education without the proper assistance. Students can not ask specific or curious questions which takes the wonder out of learning. Spring is correct when he points out the online classes are used to make money off of the students. These classes are taking the learning out of the school and putting money into the principal’s pocket. I also agree that online education fails to teach students lessons that they need to know for life outside of the classroom. They do not learn time management and students who take online classes are also prone to cheating. Growing minds need teachers to help them
Spring, a sophomore at Tufts University, emphasizes that teachers are wonderful tools that should be available to all students. A good teacher is what makes the material stick into the minds of students. Sadly, teachers are being replaced by computers and learning is being replaced with cheating. Spring argues that online classes should not be an acceptable way to teach because they give students the opportunity to cheat with the Internet at their fingertips. It also gives students the chance to procrastinate because most online classes give you all of …show more content…
Online classes take all of the one-on-one experience and learning out of the school system. Dumping kids into a computer lab is like treating themes if they were computers. Students can not be expected to sit in a chair, stare at a screen, and gain a quality education without the proper assistance. Students can not ask specific or curious questions which takes the wonder out of learning. Spring is correct when he points out the online classes are used to make money off of the students. These classes are taking the learning out of the school and putting money into the principal’s pocket. I also agree that online education fails to teach students lessons that they need to know for life outside of the classroom. They do not learn time management and students who take online classes are also prone to cheating. Growing minds need teachers to help them