Crowdsourcing Disadvantages

Technology has become a critical part of our lives. From waking up in the morning with alarms on phones to doing late night expos essays on a laptop or macbook, we utilize technology in numerous facets of our daily life. For students or anyone who has a desire to learn or study, technology plays a prominent role in their education in the contemporary world. Most of the assignments for classes are online for students. In today’s day and age most things have become digital. Things such as groupmeet, google hangouts, chat rooms, study room and etc have become a hub where a group of people collaborate to come up with solutions to problems. That is what “crowdsourcing” is: inviting a group to collaborate on a solution to a problem. Cathy Davidson argues in her text, “Project Classroom Makeover” that crowdsourcing is the step to reform the education. She has many valid points but also places where there are holes in the proposed educational revolution. Crowdsourcing- like technologies are a critical factor to the necessary ways of reforming education due to its educational …show more content…
The proposition of Cathy Davidson to use this idea is way too radical because she wants it to be the only pillar of education. Implementing part of this idea is a better choice as it still holds relevance to students and keeps them engaged in learning while still providing them with traditional classroom setting. In a week full of classes, two lectures and one day where you are on your tablets developing an app or software or whatever that class prefers to use it for would engage the students to be active listeners in lectures in order for them to be successful in that digital workshop or class. This would satisfy the kids who are interested in being well rounded. The goal of education is to make students well rounded and not obsessed with one thing. Technologies can only reform education if used in a moderate way and not a radical