The Importance Of Technology On Students

Technology is becoming a more prevalent part of society. Many people have cell phones. Many schools are required to have computers. New technologies are going to keep coming up and consistently as educators we are told to continually learn about the new types of learning technologies that are coming out. Therefore, I was wondering about how much of a difference technology can impact a student’s learning. One researcher from Walden University, wrote a research article called, “Hypermedia and Vocabulary Acquisition for Second Language”. This article goes through a research study seeing if multimedia has an effect on students’ vocabulary learning in Spanish. The research questions for this study included in the study looked at the differences in the achievement, motivation, and attitudes in vocabulary acquisition among students who were exposed to multimedia compared to students who were exposed to traditional methods. The researcher was able to make hypotheses on the research …show more content…
I particularly liked the idea of the focus group because it shows more open ended answers and ideas from the students. In the focus group, it states how some students like the traditional method, some like the multimedia method and some like both. Through the focus group study, I allowed me to realize that it all depends on the learning styles of the students. Which really captured the purpose of the focus group because it allowed me to think a little differently from just the data collected from academic scores and the surveys. Technology can be very helpful to some students, but so can traditional methods as well. Creating flashcards may be helpful for students in helping them write the words and physically flipping the cards may help them learn better. Some students would rather see it on the screen, but it depends on the preference and learning style of the