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There’s no denying that technology has grown to play a major role in education and learning. Students are using laptops, tablets, and smartphones to research, complete, and even collaborate on assignments, both in and outside of the classroom. Timothy D. Snyder and Thomas L. Friedman both have written articles expressing their opposing opinions on technology in the classroom. Timothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University who has written five different award-winning books. In his article, “Why Laptops Are Distracting America’s Future Workforce”, Snyder explains to students and teachers why he is against technology in the classroom. Thomas Friedman is a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, author of six award-winning

Since children today have become digital natives; they will never truly know a world that is not touched with technology. This means that the educational paradigm has to shift in order to keep up with the needs of our young learners (Jo, 2016). In the last thirty years, technological advances

Cathy N. Davidson suggests an innovative education system, providing an emphasis in today’s digital era, and claiming that the existing education system needs to be renewed according to the new expectations of the digital era. Davidson states that,” In the last half century, many changes have occurred in the technology field, however, classrooms and educational methods have remained fairly steady for the past years as well in consequence students are not being prepared for the future advances of society.” That being said, it is important to improve and to give a change to the current educational methods, adjusting them to the existing demands of the era that we are living and taking advantage of the resources that it provides. “What if we continued to the lesson of internet itself,

Author Nicholas Carr states that the internet is, “making us think superficially.” The only information these students are discerning, are the words in their screens, telling them facts. This does not give students a chance to think strong enough

To demand a new way of teaching and learning involving technology. (Thomas, 2011, p. 4) These popular claims within the seminal literature on digital natives (for example, that digital natives possess a sophisticated set of ICT [Information and Communication Technologies] knowledge and skills or that they have different learning styles or preferences) are largely unsupported by research evidence (Bennett, Maton, & Kirvan, 2008, p. 777). However, using these claims, enthusiasts’ present digital natives as a part of a utopian vision of technology tied to an exoticized picture of liberated young people (Buckingham, 2011). Despite slight distinctions, the terms digital native, the Net generation, and Millennials are used interchangeably (Jones et al., 2010, p. 723). Digital immigrants are characterized as individuals born before 1980 who knew an analogueonly world and still rely on analogue forms of interaction. For digital immigrants, the communication changes happening via the introduction of digital technologies are supposedly learned and relearned, instead of easily becoming second nature (Palfrey and Gasser, 2008, p. 4). Problems are often identified not with the digital natives but rather with older generations of non-natives who display their “digital immigrant accent” (Prensky, 2001a, p. 3) when using new technologies. In this way, digital immigrants are portrayed as being tied to older media, unable to catch up (Buckingham, 2011), therefore embodying the antithesis

Students of Sunnyvale are now expected to learn both in the classroom and independently from the internet, which is yet another way that our school has become more technologically focused. In Mrs. Blue’s class, students listen to lectures in the classroom as well as outside of the classroom to maximize efficiency within their learning process, which is one of many examples that show the trend towards technological literacy within Sunnyvale. This dynamic in the student-teacher relationship has helped the students in many ways, but has also proven to have some detrimental effects. Some teachers now expect the internet to take the place of teaching in the classroom, which has caused many students to struggle academically; however, many teachers

Technology has digitized the traditional setting of a classroom with its enticement of quick access and efficiency. As alluring as it is to Reuben Loewy that we follow along with the times, others believe otherwise, because they believe it puts the students at risk of not only their safety,

Technology based education is contrasted between these two articles. In the first article, “Risks Involved in Intergrading the Internet into the K-12 Curriculum”, the author breaks down the terrors that lurk amongst the internet and explains why they are a threat towards our children. Bernie Poole describes dangers such as, cyberbullying, online predators, invasion of privacy, and information overload. He helps his audience gain an understanding of cyber dangers and what could possibly happen I we allow children access to the internet. Although Bernie’s viewpoints are valid information, he failed to mention how much of a distraction the internet is to children, and the possibility of addiction and social disconnect through constant technology interaction. In the second article, Benefits of Technology in the Classroom”, the author examines the proficiencies of technology based education in the classroom. Janelle Cox goes into detail as she explains how technology prepares students for the future, improves retention rate, helps students learn at their own pace, and connects with

Perhaps that makes the 55-year-old teacher sound like a dinosaur. What he discovered is, after all, one of the most obvious realities shaping education policy and parenting guides today. But, as Loewy will clarify, his revelation wasn’t simply that technology is overhauling America’s classrooms and redefining childhood and adolescence. Rather, he was hit with the epiphany that efforts in schools to embrace these shifts are, by and large, focusing on the wrong objectives: equipping kids with fancy gadgets and then making sure the students use those gadgets appropriately and effectively. Loewy half-jokingly compares the state of digital learning in America’s schools to that of sex ed, which, as one NYU education professor describes it, entails

In Jennifer Fisher’s article “Living and Learning in a World of ‘White Noise’: Technology, Youth, and the University” the article mentions two opinions of scholars on either side of a debate, on the impact of technology in youth. The first extreme is, that the current generation is the “dumbest generation” made up of illiterate, self-absorbed people, who do not care about the history politics or culture of their society. The opposition is a romanticized version, where youth are literate intellectuals, who are “connected , publicly minded, sociable and contributing members to the digital world”. Regardless, both ideas depend on the adoption of information communication technologies, and the internet, a place where anyone can be free to learn

Every day the world is changing and things are done differently. Technology has also affected the way students are taught and in which they learn. It has changed the classroom. Technology saves us time and allows us to access material in only minutes. “The Internet and online subscription databases, even as a supplement to the printed works in the library, allow students to see, and force them to consider or reject, points of view that they might never have encountered in decades past” (Gow 4).With all the time technology produces, it also has downsides and it also may have created a less intelligent society.

There is a trend at Carmel High School that many, including Sean Bradford, may have noticed. There has been an increasing integration of technology and online services in and outside the classroom. “Today we used the laptops, and our phones in a project, ‘conflicts in different worlds: Darfur (a country)’ ”, says Sean a sophomore at CHS, “we had to use Google Slides to make a slideshow to explain what's happening in Darfur.”

In our modern times, it is no argument that digital learning is running rampantly. Prevalent in not only higher education, but in our public and private grade schools alike. It is commonly argued whether or not a strong digital presence in education is beneficial or disagreeable to students. In the essay by Marc Prensky “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” (2001) the author clearly argues a need to adapt to students’ modern learning styles. In author Morgen Witzel’s article “A New Era for Digital Learning” approaches and grapples both the ideas of digital learning becoming a societal norm, and possibly hindering the learning process. In David Streitfeld’s “Teacher Knows if You’ve Done the E-Reading” (2013) Streitfeld discusses with educators

Technology is advancing and becoming complex in our society, as it propels our daily lives. In learning environments such as schools, most students are able to acknowledge the learning differences between themselves and their teachers. These differences occur because a student is more likely to be a digital native, whereas the teacher is considered to group with digital immigrants. Digital immigrants are those who are able to understand the relevance of technology, but choose to utilize it differently. However, digital natives are those who are born in a generation in which technology is at easy access. Since a digital native’s mind is introduced to technology in an earlier stage in life, it functions differently than a digital immigrant

Today’s students and teachers live In a digital age, where an explosion of digital tools and information are available to anyone with online access. One one hand, it represents unprecedented access to information, communication, creating and sharing. Today’s students go online to accomplish many activities. With this power, comes the responsibility for teachers to impart to students the principles of digital citizenship.