when the time comes to demonstrate knowledge later or never learn the concept at all. Also with many concepts building on others throughout an academic career, when one skill isn’t mastered and the student moves on they will often struggle at some point later in time. (McCabe, 1996) When students at any point can reach into their pockets and ask Google the answer to a question, at what point will learn occur?
The next element of this paper addresses how the distraction of technology in the classroom might outweigh the benefits of further implementation of technology. There is no question that for some elements of the teaching/ learning experience, technology is a tool that can be greatly instrumental in the comprehension of certain materials. When students can visually see how an element interacts with another, first hand it creates a type of understanding that a verbal description cannot. The same can be said for interactive learning. Some students learn more effectively when they can touch and visualize graphically what is happening. Technology offers the opportunity to do just that. Programs have been created that allow students to interact with the lessons that teachers prepare by means of researching a topic instantly that they don’t …show more content…
The recent 2011 Horizon Report projects mobile learning 's time to adoption as one year or less with two convincing statements: "By 2015, 80% of people accessing the Internet will be doing so from mobile devices" and "Internet-capable mobile devices will outnumber computers within the next year" (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine, & Haywood, 2011, p. 12). This report acknowledges mobile technology is the future, it shows no signs of slowing so the solution cannot be to eliminate technology from the classroom, but to modify the classroom and the teaching methods in it, to effectively utilize
The next element of this paper addresses how the distraction of technology in the classroom might outweigh the benefits of further implementation of technology. There is no question that for some elements of the teaching/ learning experience, technology is a tool that can be greatly instrumental in the comprehension of certain materials. When students can visually see how an element interacts with another, first hand it creates a type of understanding that a verbal description cannot. The same can be said for interactive learning. Some students learn more effectively when they can touch and visualize graphically what is happening. Technology offers the opportunity to do just that. Programs have been created that allow students to interact with the lessons that teachers prepare by means of researching a topic instantly that they don’t …show more content…
The recent 2011 Horizon Report projects mobile learning 's time to adoption as one year or less with two convincing statements: "By 2015, 80% of people accessing the Internet will be doing so from mobile devices" and "Internet-capable mobile devices will outnumber computers within the next year" (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine, & Haywood, 2011, p. 12). This report acknowledges mobile technology is the future, it shows no signs of slowing so the solution cannot be to eliminate technology from the classroom, but to modify the classroom and the teaching methods in it, to effectively utilize