How Does Technology Affect Education

How Technology would help Education
Education has Increased by technology over the past centuries throughout history. Since then, education standards have risen to new heights and still are rising. The education system produces graduates that are eager to begin a career. Graduates would improve the country economically, and reduce the unemployment rate. High School’s should start encouraging an academic curriculum that would aid students in developing their writing skills with new digital technologies for professional careers and any situations outside of the classroom. Students would learn how to write professional emails, how to read and complete writing templates related to responsibilities in everyday life. They would also learn how to …show more content…
In Grabill’s previously mentioned piece, he explains how the public believes that integrating newer technologies in the classroom will not encourage success; instead it will promote distraction (Grabill 11). Today’s current high school students can utilize social media websites through just about any type of modern and new technologies, and the public fears that students will just use class time to browse them. This concern does make a compelling argument, but instead of promoting education it prevents it. Students comprehend that writing is essential to achieving success, and the previous curriculum mentioned would exhibit that its methods using emerging technologies offer great value to a student’s life outside of the classroom and can help them be successful. If we take away this opportunity to encourage students to be apart of an atmosphere that can create responsibility for developing their own writing skills and the technologies they practice them on, we are preventing them from being properly prepared for situations outside of the