Kantianism is the reasoning to do the right thing, the duty, and having treating everyone equally and not to use someone as a means to an end, and by this theory, the RUX’s action is not ethically justified. The RUX Universities actions on restricting computer usage is in fact justified by this theory. Research by the MIT’s Department of Economics and the US National Bureau of Economic Research show the negative impact on student’s academic performance with computer usage. What the RUX University is trying to accomplish, is to restrict the usage in classroom, which assumes the halt of the negative impact. So they are indeed trying to do the right thing by helping student’s academic performance improve, which is morally doing the right thing, hence it being justified.…
Pitchon 12/18/2016 Scenario #3 (Needs Assessment) Identifying Need In 1985, with the introduction of computers in schools, the ratio of students to computers was 63:1(Kress 2011). Today, approximately ninety-nine percent of the schools in the country have access to the internet, and the ratio of student-to-computer has greatly decreased to 4:1(Kress 2011). Computer use has become an increasingly vital part of academia. Computers have become integrated into the learning process in academic…
Relationship between comfort level, tutorial participation and academic performance An Annotated Bibliography Sphiwe Modise May 4, 2015 References [1] M. S. Farooq, A. H. Chaudhry, M. Shafiq, and G. Berhanu, “Factors affecting students quality of academic performance: a case of secondary school level,” Journal of quality and technology management, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1–14, 2011. Aim: The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that are affecting secondary school students, who are in the 10th…
The purpose of this paper is to gain more information on academic dishonesty within colleges, along with the disciplinary actions that follow. Some people may wonder why students will cheat, and plagiarize papers. Kumar Jagadesh explains in his article, “ Increased competition to get better grades and a skewed shift in our focus from the joy of learning.” (Jagadesh). Jagadesh points out students are cheating is for the sol purpose of trying to maintain a high grade, and having less stress of the…
"Introduction The continual rise of women in STEM fields is a topic that has been persistently catching the attention of the current population. “Women’s absence from STEM is particularly puzzling, given their increased presence in other traditionally male-dominated fields, such as medicine or law (Seeking Congruity)”. Statistically speaking, there are more men in STEM or Computer Science based fields than women. While the number of women in these fields are growing, the lack of representation…
Procedure The subjects were asked to individually fill out the digital surveys online during their PSYC121 labs. The classroom is set up with computers lining the walls on three sides of the room. The Classrooms hold a maximum of 16 people per lab. There were dividers between each of the computers so that subjects could not see each other’s screens and because subjects where facing the walls minimised distraction by other subjects. The study was approved by the Victoria University ethics…
learning, socializing, and entertaining. My school recognized the importance early on, and incorporated a mandatory computer class into the school day. This was most likely the stem of my addiction to computers. As time went by, computers became more compact, and portable. Now practically everyone has a smart phone. The smart phone is the smallest form of a computer that is available to me. I use my smart phone at least four to five hours every day, whether that be texting, playing games, going…
Christy J., et al. "Benefits of Laptop Computers for Elementary Teachers." Journal of Research On Computing in Education 33.5 (2001): 1-9. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Oct. 2016. Summary: In “Benefits of Laptop Computers for Elementary Teachers”, by Christy J. Falba. et al, two different case groups were studied. The two groups showed how teachers’ educational tactics would change if provided with laptops. From the study, the article states when given laptops teachers could gain greater…
Methods The goal of the project is to understand analyze the impact of personal computers and tablets have on the education of U.S college and university students and how they are used in classrooms. I am particularly interested in how computers are used either to aid education or are they a distraction for those that use these devices. Ethnography and participant observation will assist in determining how people use these devices. Survey and semi-structured interviews will help in finding out…
gaming, business, education, or just light browsing, we rely on the computer to aid us to execute these tasks. Since the rise of the computer, society has greatly advance in ways of improving efficiency, problem solving, medicine, and etc.. As the years go by, we increasingly depend on them in order to solve many of the world’s problems. Since the start of the sale of personal computers to the public in the 1970’s, modern society has greatly changed. The computer is a electronic device that…