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How Does Technology Affect Students ' Academic Performance? Essay

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Technology and Student Performance
Cihat Akviranli
North American University
EDUC- 5313/Fall 2016
Research Problem
How does technology affect students’ academic performance?
Introduction
As the 21st century has started, technology advancements have been adopted to almost every part of our lives and have affected our daily habits such as how we shop, socialize, connect, communicate, play, enjoy and most prominently learn. With technology, we find different ways of learning and teaching. Technology in education plays an important role in enhancing the educational skills and knowledge of the students. This makes an endless circle like student-technology-learning.
Technology can aid teachers to fulfill the requirements of a different student population, better organize the students for lifetime learning, and help to prepare the students for the classrooms and places of work of the future (Eldakak, 2012). There are a lot of considerations in teaching such as classroom size, the number of students, readiness to the class, socio-economic class and background of students, mental and physical impairments and etc. These all criteria affect the quality of education and educators sometimes cannot fill the gaps because of the criteria. On the other hand, education systems have been changed by the development of technology and have it already been integrated all schools’ curriculums. Technology serves different and beneficial opportunities to all steps of education and fills

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