The world of today is made possible due to the advancement of technology.
Different fields of professions incorporate technology into their line of work to improve skills for better achievement. For example, the film industry started off simply with silent black and white motion pictures filmed by constantly cranking a camera handle back in the 1890s. As the time passed, the world entered into a technological evolution. Slowly, films were being made grander with each decade. Silent motion pictures progressed into audio colored films and later developed into a more complex craft that told further captivating stories. Technology was used as a driving force for the film industry due to human initiative and inventive nature. Films, like The Avengers, …show more content…
Money is a big factor in achieving technology in education, and it is something a lot of schools would not be able to afford. School districts would have to cut budgets and let loose staff members to pay for replacement of equipments. Schools that are in poverty cannot even afford filled textbooks for every student, so how are they supposed to get money to update their technology? The answer to this is President Obama’s administration proposed plan, ConnectED, a plan to provided new equipment and make digital learning available to more than 15,000 schools in two years through the combination of government and private sector contributions of over two billion dollars (Parsons). Obama himself has admitted that while Congress lacked cooperation with him, he has the aid of private sectors and several companies’ investment. Big name companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T, are committed to provide funding for new laptops along with updated software to struggling schools. The hope is that this initiative will lead to 99 percent of American students with high-speed internet in schools within the next five years (Parsons). Schools that were at a disadvantage will be connected, updated, and caught up in the digital age. The digital divide between …show more content…
But as with every argument, there are oppositions. There is worry that students are taking advantage of the massive sources and not using these tools “to build with, to learn with, to create with (Manzo).” Students are merely skimming through information rather than digesting the information to gain some intellectual development. Research has ultimately equal Googling. Unfortunately, in some cases this is true. In fact, I myself used Google to obtain information for this research paper. However, with the amount of research I did, it was impossible not to learn anything about my topic. I analyzed and critically thought about what I wanted to present in this research paper. I was able to do this because of how I was taught in school by my teachers. They always made it a point that it was not the amount of information you find, but rather the amount of information you process that made you a better and smarter student. Knowledge over memorization. Students lacking in the cognitive department is no fault of technology, after all, it is a tool, and tools “can be helpful or harmful depending on how we use them
Different fields of professions incorporate technology into their line of work to improve skills for better achievement. For example, the film industry started off simply with silent black and white motion pictures filmed by constantly cranking a camera handle back in the 1890s. As the time passed, the world entered into a technological evolution. Slowly, films were being made grander with each decade. Silent motion pictures progressed into audio colored films and later developed into a more complex craft that told further captivating stories. Technology was used as a driving force for the film industry due to human initiative and inventive nature. Films, like The Avengers, …show more content…
Money is a big factor in achieving technology in education, and it is something a lot of schools would not be able to afford. School districts would have to cut budgets and let loose staff members to pay for replacement of equipments. Schools that are in poverty cannot even afford filled textbooks for every student, so how are they supposed to get money to update their technology? The answer to this is President Obama’s administration proposed plan, ConnectED, a plan to provided new equipment and make digital learning available to more than 15,000 schools in two years through the combination of government and private sector contributions of over two billion dollars (Parsons). Obama himself has admitted that while Congress lacked cooperation with him, he has the aid of private sectors and several companies’ investment. Big name companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T, are committed to provide funding for new laptops along with updated software to struggling schools. The hope is that this initiative will lead to 99 percent of American students with high-speed internet in schools within the next five years (Parsons). Schools that were at a disadvantage will be connected, updated, and caught up in the digital age. The digital divide between …show more content…
But as with every argument, there are oppositions. There is worry that students are taking advantage of the massive sources and not using these tools “to build with, to learn with, to create with (Manzo).” Students are merely skimming through information rather than digesting the information to gain some intellectual development. Research has ultimately equal Googling. Unfortunately, in some cases this is true. In fact, I myself used Google to obtain information for this research paper. However, with the amount of research I did, it was impossible not to learn anything about my topic. I analyzed and critically thought about what I wanted to present in this research paper. I was able to do this because of how I was taught in school by my teachers. They always made it a point that it was not the amount of information you find, but rather the amount of information you process that made you a better and smarter student. Knowledge over memorization. Students lacking in the cognitive department is no fault of technology, after all, it is a tool, and tools “can be helpful or harmful depending on how we use them