Why Technology? Technology has become one the greatest innovations in the world today. Maybe the real question should be whether or not it is helping with the teaching and education of society today. Technology is readily used in most schools today including elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. However, it may not be all that it is cut out to be; corrupting youth and classrooms all over the world. Students are more tempted to cheat, slack-off with school work, play video games during class, and, even teachers, are becoming less involved with the actual teaching part of the class, and even the work that the students and teachers have to put towards an assignment becoming effortless. Affecting many schools throughout the
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Many of the assignments that are given in class are to be done in class, however, they are to be done on their tablet silently without a partner. Teachers depend on technology as far as grading purposes as well. If a test is given through a website, teachers, most of the time, do not have to do anything else with the test except enter the grades. Even sometimes the grades will automatically be entered for them. Even though this process easier and less time consuming for the teacher, sometimes the computer program may be wrong and the teachers do not go back through to make sure that what the computer says is right cheating a student out of an answer. Or, even if a student has a question on how to answer a question a certain way the teacher may not know considering they are not interactive with the class as far as teaching them the correct material. Another disadvantage of having technology in classrooms is the lack of effort that is put into a assignments by students. When doing a research paper, for example, many students do not use books as a citation. Many students are not aware of how to cite a paper without using a web site to do the work for them. As a high school student, they are often not discharged from school for plagiarizing unlike college. Back when college and going to school was becoming mandatory, students did not have internet to find all of the answers that they
Many of the assignments that are given in class are to be done in class, however, they are to be done on their tablet silently without a partner. Teachers depend on technology as far as grading purposes as well. If a test is given through a website, teachers, most of the time, do not have to do anything else with the test except enter the grades. Even sometimes the grades will automatically be entered for them. Even though this process easier and less time consuming for the teacher, sometimes the computer program may be wrong and the teachers do not go back through to make sure that what the computer says is right cheating a student out of an answer. Or, even if a student has a question on how to answer a question a certain way the teacher may not know considering they are not interactive with the class as far as teaching them the correct material. Another disadvantage of having technology in classrooms is the lack of effort that is put into a assignments by students. When doing a research paper, for example, many students do not use books as a citation. Many students are not aware of how to cite a paper without using a web site to do the work for them. As a high school student, they are often not discharged from school for plagiarizing unlike college. Back when college and going to school was becoming mandatory, students did not have internet to find all of the answers that they