The Importance Of Mobile Technology In The Classroom

Even though while technology is helpful to people in and out the classroom, teachers should monitor the amount of mobile technology in the classroom, because mobile technology makes it easy to look up answer for assignments and test on the internet, and it takes their intelligence away because no one is learning the material or gaining skills. Technology helps Students and teachers in the classroom because as we sail through the 21st century, technology in the classroom are becoming more predominant and teachers should use technology in the classroom because it improve students’ achievements, keep the student involved, and promotes higher thinking. For example, US News journalist Ryan Lytle wrote an article stating an Advanced Placement Calculus teacher named Stacey Roshan, an instructor at Bullis; a private school for students in grades three …show more content…
I have witnessed first- hand what the effects of technology can offer for students. I am definitely an independent learner, but having the technology in my classes has caused me to become more engaged, because there were times that I would just ignore the teacher just because of boredom, or for the fact that what he/she were teaching was uninteresting. That and I had a hard time focusing in class. There were also times where I would feel like I could not retain the information I was taught, but with the technology available to the class, it just seemed like the information would click better. While Technology is helpful to Students and Teachers in and out the classroom, teacher should monitor the amount of technology in the classroom, because technology makes it easy to cheat in the classroom, it takes our intelligence away because we are defending and putting all of our trust in too much technology, and at times it is not always