Technology Has Impacted Students Writing

Undoubtedly, technology has done wonders throughout and left an ineradicable mark on education, but technology has its

Introduction. New technologies in the classroom are a cutting-edge field of study in contemporary history. Education is now going digital. With the creation of online software for students, the lessons learned in the classroom have shown more efficiency and has made a big contribution to higher literacy rates for students. Not so many years ago, the internet was limited both in what it could do and in who used it. Today, most teachers have not only been exposed to the internet but also have access at home and at school. As we become increasingly more reliant and absorbed in technology, it is no surprise that today’s children have become avid users as well. Laptops are being developed for children as young as five. Smart phones are now in the hands of children as young as ten. In fact, a large number of schools are being retrofitted to place the internet in every classroom. Technology has become an integral part of the majority of Americans’ daily lives. We get our news through various websites and digital newspapers, pay bills, manage our love lives, send and receive mail, and find information all on the Internet. More than 500 million people communicate and keep in touch with friends through social networking. Our new technologically driven lives are thanks to the constantly developing and affordable technology available in the United States. I will discuss how new kinds of technology, active and passive learning roles, the sphere of Autism learning, learning styles and

Not So Fast,” Andrea Lunsford argues that rather than leading to a new illiteracy, the digital technologies in the modern world help students to develop their ability of writing. Not only that students are daferrors than 25 years ago, actually with less spelling errors. In order to help students with the challenges, the teacher should offer solid instructions and encouragement rather than derision.

People claim that new developments have caused kids to be so dependent on their devices, that they can't think for themselves. This claim can also be turned around by saying that technology has given kids more opportunities and chances to learn, and in particular, more opportunities to write (Source 7, Clive Thompson). An example of this is a study done at Stanford University, where it was discovered that Stanford students did a stunning 38 percent of their writing outside of the classroom (Source 7, Clive Thompson). With the developments of E-mail, texting, and social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, younger people are constantly writing in their every day lives. In the past, people would, for the most part, stop writing once the finishes their education. Now however, people are more comfortable, and more used to, writing. And while the argument that technology has decreased level of the vocabulary and vernacular of young people is true in some cases, the increase in writing shown by young people has led to a greater ability to convey information to other people, and a greater comfort in talking to people they don't know (Source 7, Clive Thompson). As Andrea Lunsford says, "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek Civilization" (Source 7, Clive

In this article Terry Heick discusses the problems technology has caused in our classrooms. The first issue is the pace of change, he argues that not all schools can keep up with the rapidly changing technology, and that keeping technology in all classroom and updated is ultimately very costly. He thena argues that education is starting to lean more toward being online schooling and he strongly believes that it does not offer the same social or educational benefits of a regular school setting. These are a couple different points that i can utilize in order to explain how the introduction of technology is affecting students and teacher and how it is an issue overall.

Technology plays a huge role in today’s society. Humans have been using the technology for years for almost everything in life. When it comes to today’s generation, people tend to rely so much on technology in order to help them with their writing. In the article “Writing Is Itself a Technology,” Clinton R. Gardner writes about the importance of using technology, how it affects the student’s writing skill in a better way, and how it advances student writing. On the other hand, Norm Goldstein, the author of “Speed Kills Good Writing Skills” stands against the usage of technology in student’s writing skill. Although many may argue about this topic, Gardner debates on this issue and gives his readers well supportive evidence on why technology is not harmful for students in his article. He provides some information concerning how it’s sympathetic for students to use technology in their writing. First, he mentions how writing and chatting online can be extremely useful in order for students to get feedback regarding their writing. Second, they have the opportunity to share their writing via online and can be seen by almost everyone around the world. Third, it gives the ability for students to write in a well-structured way using the right words and improve their grammar.

As technology has progressed so has our composing practices. Dennis Baron, a linguist who studies literacy and communication technologies, wrote From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies, a paper about how writing has progressed as a result of the progression of writing technology, for example the pencil and computer. Grabill et. Al, a collaboration of professors and assistant professors, wrote From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies, a paper about the writing technologies that students use most, and there importance to the student. The Grabill et. Al paper demonstrates how students have moved toward computers and away from paper for writing. Technology has greatly affected composing practices as it has progressed and developed.

n today's society, texting and social media are affecting many students in progressing in their writing and sadly affecting them by negative comments among their classmates. Technology brings many negative outcomes when used by many students. Teachers are finding many students using improper grammar and using abbreviations in their writing. Because of technology fewer than half of the nation's 2012 high school graduates who took the SAT college admissions test were deemed ready for college-level writing. Too many people they think that technology advancing could improve the society, but really it's just giving more students an opportunity to learn a language in the improper form. How do you think technology is affecting students in their classes today?

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.

Technology is a helpful tool for teaching the writing process, and Marchisan and Alber (2001) concluded that writers can be taught to write using the writing process approach paired with tools of technology, direct instruction, and committed well-trained teachers. Graham, (2008), Graham & and Perin (2007a), and Rogers & and Graham, (2008), agreed that technology makes the process of writing easier and often provides very specific types of support. Word processing provides at least four advantages: (a) revisions are easily made, (b) publishing is professional-looking, (c) typing provides an easier means for children with fine motor skill challenges to produce text, and (d) word-processing programs have software programs, such as spell and stylistic checkers designed to reduce specific types of miscues. Other tools are speech synthesis (i.e., the writer’s spoken words are transcribed to electronic text) and word-prediction programs (i.e., the computer program reduces the key strokes by predicting the writer’s next word). This is helpful for students with difficulties with spelling and the mechanics of writing. In addition, outlining and semantic mapping software can aide with the planning process, and the use of computer networks and the Internet can help to promote communication and collaboration among writers.

Most classrooms now have computers or tablets in the classrooms for students to do there classwork. Teachers are starting to give homework assignments through online sources to turn in for grades. If you look back a hundred years ago from today, class work and home work was done in class with pencil and paper, there were no computers to this and the smarts of students were a lot higher than what they are today. “students are getting false hopes and getting lower test scores with the use of technology"(Coughlan). Now that technology is a big tool that students think they need, when they are given and assignment to write or research and essay for instance the first thing that most students will do is get on a computer and search for a topic and ideas of what to do. The search engines' that are on the computer is a tool on the internet where you can look up anything that your heart desires and also the answers. This technology that the Unites States has adapted to is taking away from children being able to think for themselves and brainstorm to develop critical thinking

There is still both enthusiasm for and doubts about the usage of educational technology in the classroom. However, the integration of technology in reading instruction has kept up with the movements and changes in the field of the reading and writing curriculum. While faced with many book shortages, this article also gives ideas for strengthening the skill of students in writing and reading instruction. It suggests that students participate in “invisible writing” as a sort of pre-writing activity. Through this, students will turn the monitor of the computer off for approximately one to three minutes, so that they cannot see what they are typing. Students have reported that this exercise has helped them develop fluency, has freed them from continuously checking their mistakes and losing their train of thought, and has also increased their interest in viewing what they had to say. Thus, students will have learned how to produce more thoughtfully enriched texts that teachers can build on through other types of instruction.

Technology affects every aspect of our lives. From romance to business, it has shown its presence everywhere. But technology has had a huge impact on education that cannot be denied, and has done nothing but improve the quality and quantity of education.

Across the U.S., technology used in education has been increasing exponentially. Every learning institution ranging from elementary school to college have incorporated technology into their teachings. Online textbooks, quizzes, notes, and classes are all examples of how education has been utilizing technology. While technology has a place in education, not everything in education needs to involve technology.

The use of technology in schools and education has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. Classrooms have gone from paper, pencils, and chalkboards, now to laptops, smartboards, and online homework. Much of the homework students do is now turned in online, where it can be graded instantaneously and the results given right away to the student. This also saves teachers time from not grading each paper individually and allows them to focus on what is next in the lesson. Online school work allows students to share files and documents, work on group projects where everyone can edit a paper at the same time, and work on papers any time or place where technology is available. Note taking and studying have become much more efficient