The excessive use of technology in the American classroom is creating a legion of conundrums. The use of such devices as laptops, is being taken for granted. Students in classrooms across the nation are using these privileges for activities outside the realm of the educational material provided. In addition, cheating has become more prevalent in schools due to the accessibility of rapid answers for assignments with the tap of a few keys. Furthermore, the cost of outfitting an entire school, can put sizable pressure on budgets. Contrary to the popular belief that the use of technology in the classroom can only bring positive, satisfactory results, this practice will inevitably activate the recession of the American education system because technology
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Instead of participating in the appropriate educational tasks assigned, preoccupation ensues through the countless off topic websites that are available. According to Bonnie Thone Boylan, the author of “Technology in the Classroom: Too Much of a Good Thing”, “A quick stroll through a computer lab finds many students off topic, playing games, shopping or viewing YouTube” (Technology). Boylan’s quotation is an accurate representation of the ongoing conditions of the level of recreational distraction in classrooms across the United States. The more frightening matter on hand though, is the fact that the students are treating the situation with flippancy. For example, a recent study done by Cengage Learning on high school students, revealed what is really happening behind the monitors during educational purposed time. Sixty percent of those surveyed claim that texting is a source of much diversion, fifty percent are busy checking social-media, forty-five percent play online games, and twenty-five percent are engrossed in finding answers in order to cheat (Strang).These results are disheartening and they further prove that technology has become an interference in …show more content…
Heloise Pechan, a high school teacher, can quickly recall the multiple occasions in which she has faced cheating in her classroom. In an article written by the Business Inquirer, Pechan describes an incident in which a normally average student produced an extraordinary paper, an event that was quite unusual. A simple Google search revealed that the entire paper had been plagiarized. Pechan explained, “I went from amazement and excitement to 'Oh my God' in the space of a half-second”(qtd. in Keilman) Educators are stretched thin by attempting to always keep an eye out for cheating because technology has made the act so much easier for students. As Eric Anderman, a professor of educational psychology, tells the Business Inquirer, “If you have 30 kids in a classroom, it's not easy to catch them," he said. "There's only so much one person can do. The kids really can get away with it” (qtd. in Keilman). Exterminating technology from the classroom will not completely stop cheating, but it will to cut off the raising rates of
Instead of participating in the appropriate educational tasks assigned, preoccupation ensues through the countless off topic websites that are available. According to Bonnie Thone Boylan, the author of “Technology in the Classroom: Too Much of a Good Thing”, “A quick stroll through a computer lab finds many students off topic, playing games, shopping or viewing YouTube” (Technology). Boylan’s quotation is an accurate representation of the ongoing conditions of the level of recreational distraction in classrooms across the United States. The more frightening matter on hand though, is the fact that the students are treating the situation with flippancy. For example, a recent study done by Cengage Learning on high school students, revealed what is really happening behind the monitors during educational purposed time. Sixty percent of those surveyed claim that texting is a source of much diversion, fifty percent are busy checking social-media, forty-five percent play online games, and twenty-five percent are engrossed in finding answers in order to cheat (Strang).These results are disheartening and they further prove that technology has become an interference in …show more content…
Heloise Pechan, a high school teacher, can quickly recall the multiple occasions in which she has faced cheating in her classroom. In an article written by the Business Inquirer, Pechan describes an incident in which a normally average student produced an extraordinary paper, an event that was quite unusual. A simple Google search revealed that the entire paper had been plagiarized. Pechan explained, “I went from amazement and excitement to 'Oh my God' in the space of a half-second”(qtd. in Keilman) Educators are stretched thin by attempting to always keep an eye out for cheating because technology has made the act so much easier for students. As Eric Anderman, a professor of educational psychology, tells the Business Inquirer, “If you have 30 kids in a classroom, it's not easy to catch them," he said. "There's only so much one person can do. The kids really can get away with it” (qtd. in Keilman). Exterminating technology from the classroom will not completely stop cheating, but it will to cut off the raising rates of