Benefits Of High-Tech Classroom

High-Tech Classroom Even though most schools are going to online teaching is it really helping? Is it really increasing and helping students learn like teachers thought it would? Most schools that have gone to a high- tech classroom base their teachings on one concept.The questions parents need to ask themselves is, with this concept are the students really learning, are their test scores really increasing? But lastly are schools even necessary, should students even have to come to school even though everything is on the computer with limited teacher interaction?
Most parents would ask their child’s teachers, is my child actually learning the material that he/she needs to learn? Do they know the material they are learning? “A recent meta-analysis …show more content…
Those are usually the parents of the students that learn concepts quickly. Since the teachings and lessons are on the computer, their child can move on faster and not have to wait for the rest of the class to get finished. They are able to move on to the next lesson without having to wait only if the lesson is available. They’re able to go at their own speed and not everyone else 's speed. But there are some students that don 't learn as fast as others. The parents to those children are the ones that most likely question the online teaching styles. They might question that their child isn 't getting the teaching he/she needs to learn the concept on the …show more content…
Will the students stay on task while they 're at school and in class. “A study to be published in the journal Computer & Education in September shows that college students who bring their laptops to long lectures spent about two-thirds of their class time for off- task activities” (Neal). Since students are doing off-task activities during school, why do they need to come to a school building when they can stay at home and do the same thing.? If students aren 't doing their work at school then why do students still have to come? They may not do their work at home either. But if the off-task students work from home then it would help the other students stay on task. Most students, even when the teacher thinks they 're doing their work in class on the computer,are usually doing off-task activities.
Today there are PRS (Personal Response Systems) that can help students in multiple different ways. ¨Personal Response Systems, hand-held devices in which students answer questions electronically in class. These devices could make students more interested in attending and focusing during class” (Stanley). So by using Personal Response Systems some students might be focusing more but there is still the chance that 's some aren 't. While other students might not be interested in attending school anymore since there using PRS or because