Laptop

Should schools have to have a laptop per child What you may think is “what is she going to tell me about”.Today I am going to tell you what I think schools should be should schools provide technology, such as laptop or tablets, for all students.The reason, that schools should is because then the kids can have fun learning so that they don’t just have to sit in one stop and do nothing they are playing on whatever the school lets them have at grade 3.Know that I have told you what I am going to…

In “A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop,” published on Scientific American, May (2014) talks about the consequences of using laptops to write notes. She compares two note taking methods, handwriting and typing on a laptop, and try to persuade readers that using laptops is not much helpful in learning. Since Scientific American is an academic trade news website, potential readers are generally educated people and those who hold teaching position or people are students may have…

In “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away” by NPR the author(s) addressed the problems in classroom and how students were taking notes. Their argument was that students needed to take notes via paper and pen rather than with their laptops or other electronics. They used research from Pam A. Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer. In which they stated “‘This is suggestive evidence that longhand notes may have superior external storage as well as superior encoding functions’”(NPR 2). NPR is making…

understanding the material and they are taking in the information. A way that students make sure they are engaged is by taking notes. In A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop by Cindi May, the author expresses her position about taking notes by hand versus typing notes. Cindi believes taking notes with a laptop is insufficient for the knowledge of a college student. For this claim, Cindi provided adequate evidence based on a study by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer. Throughout…

The article, “Why Laptops in Class Are Distracting America’s Future Workforce” was written by Timothy D. Snyder in 2010. His purpose in writing this article was to persuade professors against having laptops in the classroom because he feels they are a distraction. The arguments Snyder uses against laptops in classrooms are, they distract students’ attention, students miss out of the best part of American life, and he generalizes that this lack of attention will spill over into the workplace.…

except you in and treat you right but what happens when all you see is people that are too focused on their laptops or phones in the cafe? Sure I know what people are thinking “why does it matter, cafes are always like that. It is not like it affects the cafe anyway” well believe it or not it does affect them, and it has been a problem for cafes for a while now. In the article “What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?”, written by Karen Stabiner, she proves why it is hard for…

Photoshopping Disorder” to explain the false ways media influences harmful and unrealistic expectations, towards people especially women. Professor Clay Shirky, is also against media in his article,”Why I just Asked My Students To Put Away Their Laptops”, by pointing out to the people, that distractions such as media can conflict learning. Even Multi-tasking, everyone attempts, but never accomplishes it because the distractions from one task to another, in his case classwork to notifications.…

Clay Shirkey in “Why I Just Asked My Students to Put Their Laptops Away,” and Serena Elavia in “The Collective Conscience of Reality Television,” both agree that what the people want, the makers of social media, and distractions are brought to the surface with the use of each other. Shirkey states that mobile devices are the biggest distraction in the classroom, so much that he has even banned all of his students from bringing them into his classroom (209-214). Elavia states that the producers…

is when students have to write papers. In the article “Learning with Laptops” and data found “laptop students became more motivated to complete schoolwork and often went beyond required assignments, thereby improving the quality of their work” (Mouse 462). Typing can make the writing process go faster, and the tools in word processing software make it easier for students to edit their work. A project to give students laptops in the classroom in Maine resulted in an increase in student writing…

different strategies to use for all of the different countries in the world. Going into Germany to sell laptops seems like a good idea after looking into Germany’s culture and comparing their culture with the United States culture. It is important to be self-aware of one’s own values and culture. Going forward, this paper will identify the key parts of Germany culture and the usefulness laptops would have in German culture. Cultural Analysis Germany is a country that has a low level of power…