In the article “Can Students Have too Much Tech?” ,Susan Pinker cares about Barack Obama’s policy regarding students having too much technology. Pinker is a stakeholder who is involved in the controversy by being a Psychologist and Columnist. However Pinker is not the only stakeholder in this article. President Obama’s is also a stakeholder because he is the one making the agenda to promise to expand the internet.
President Obama found out that the kids coming from struggling families with network devices will not shrink the class in education, they will actually widen the education.(par.2) The Duke University economists Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd began to research middle school kids that were disadvantaged. They researched their math and …show more content…
The more privileged kids with parents that have more money, the more success they have with their vocabulary and succeeding in school. The more time children spend in front of screens or on their electronic devices the more likely to be apart from their peers and affect their learning behavior by the fourth grade. (par. 8). Researchers then ask a big question of why would adding more viewing and clicking to their school days be considered a good idea? (par. 8)." They didn't get an answer, just results of gadgetry leading to an educational flaw in the program. In 2006 a nonprofit started the project called One Laptop Per Child. All students over six years old would get their own laptop. With the power to go online and educate themselves without a teacher, even the children who came out of low-income families would get one too they were just paid for by donations. But the project didn't go as planned the machines would bug out and broken down. When they did work properly the students spent more time on other sites rather than their homework such as games and to chat with their friends.
Technology does have a role in education, Randy Yerrick a professor at the University of Buffalo says "it is worth the investment only when it's perfectly suited to the task (par. 12)." When technology is used
President Obama found out that the kids coming from struggling families with network devices will not shrink the class in education, they will actually widen the education.(par.2) The Duke University economists Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd began to research middle school kids that were disadvantaged. They researched their math and …show more content…
The more privileged kids with parents that have more money, the more success they have with their vocabulary and succeeding in school. The more time children spend in front of screens or on their electronic devices the more likely to be apart from their peers and affect their learning behavior by the fourth grade. (par. 8). Researchers then ask a big question of why would adding more viewing and clicking to their school days be considered a good idea? (par. 8)." They didn't get an answer, just results of gadgetry leading to an educational flaw in the program. In 2006 a nonprofit started the project called One Laptop Per Child. All students over six years old would get their own laptop. With the power to go online and educate themselves without a teacher, even the children who came out of low-income families would get one too they were just paid for by donations. But the project didn't go as planned the machines would bug out and broken down. When they did work properly the students spent more time on other sites rather than their homework such as games and to chat with their friends.
Technology does have a role in education, Randy Yerrick a professor at the University of Buffalo says "it is worth the investment only when it's perfectly suited to the task (par. 12)." When technology is used