The Importance Of Technology In Elementary Schools

The number of American classroom is in 20 or so. It belongs to the small class teaching. The small classroom is like a laboratory in China from the function.In such small classroom teaching ,the teacher ,on the one hand,can understand the students more faster and better. The teacher have more opportunity to understand each student’s learning conditions, personality hobbies, special skill, ability and so on and the teacher also has more time to guide students individually and can get better communication with students.On the other hand,Students can take full use of multimedia technology for homework as much as possible .Each student has chance to use technology in class to give their presentations and involve in the teaching interaction in the small classroom.

As the educational system is expanded and altered, so is our students. For a school system to work, the students must be able to show improvement from one grade to another. The teachers are required to demonstrate how their teaching method is affective compared to others that are qualified for the job. Although one teacher could have more experience in education, another might be able to display the knowledge better. Along with history, education has been shaped primarily on the invention of technology. Without computers and cell phones, the world would not have evolved as it had. The same can be said about education.

As humans living on the earth, society send people to learning institutions for education. A learning institute is one of the most popular place where people get knowledge based on what they have choose as field of study. In this twenty first Century, technology has improved human’s education systems a lot. Although, technology is now part of everything that human does in daily basis, a balance should be established between methods of education and technology. Getting knowledge today is done by utilizing traditional education system, keeping the basic of learning and maintaining the use of technology tools in education.

Every student has a different way or learning, just as every teacher has a different way of teaching. Times have changed, our technology has become a more dominant aspect of our lives. From grades pre-kindergarten to the college level of learning you can be sure that each classroom will be using some sort of technology while being taught by a teacher. There are many ways we can use technology in the classrooms from powerpoints, video clips, and even simply taking an online class. As one expert has claimed “The traditional approach where students learned from the teacher standing in front of the room has long been left behind.” (Hayre, 2014) Now the issue is using the technology at hand properly to help enhance the learning for each student.

The learning place has been invaded by the ability to know anything and everything. While this picture shows promise, it is actually more complex and distorted with regards to the receivers; these would be the students of today. What makes us capable of distributing the infinite amount of information that can be labeled “anything and everything” is truly remarkable, and that is precisely what technology has allowed us to do. Being that, it is safe to say that technology has expanded to heights worth exploring, and while this brings good resources to the pupils of today, it is the way students will explore and discover through the internet that should be taken into consideration by their teachers before introducing it to the curriculum.

As a teacher, we must learn how to achieve academic success in the classroom and with our students. The educator philosophers Borich and Wong have different points of view of how learning should be taught. Borich focuses on how technology integrates in the classroom, also on how questioning strategies help with targeting inquiry, and how teacher directed strategies help improve learners to actively respond. On the other hand, Wong focuses on everything you need to prepare for when you as the teacher have your own classroom such as: having a well-managed classroom, how to introduce yourself to your class, seating arrangements, grading systems, discipline plans, and how to achieve opportunities to learn. Consequently, the teacher should be able to balance the way the classroom acts expressively, and the same time encourage them to be culturally responsive to learning.

Many are misled regarding technology in schools because they fail to realize the difference between technology usage and technology integration. Technology usage focuses on the physical device, delivering information, and majority conduct comes from the teacher; whereas, technology integration supports the physical device to promote learning objectives, constructs knowledge, and allows students to operate it themselves (Harris 7). This is what separates technology efficient schools from the rest, technology is not their goal, education is (Levin and Schrum 51-53). Instead of taking a “one size fits all approach”, schools are able to succeed because they make learning relevant, provide opportunities, and promote important skills by integrating technology with curriculum. After using that method, and providing a laptop for every student in the school district, Mooresville, North Carolina dramatically improved high school standardized test proficiency from 68% to 88.5% (Levin and Schrum 51-53). However, Robert Kozma argues, ‘“What are the actual and potential relationships between media and learning?”’ (qtd. in Harris 2). Other critics have also stated concerns that technology does not influence achievement, teachers need training to effectively administer usage, and making sure every student has access. On the other hand, proponents of classroom technology say it allows creativity and is better fit for today’s society. Public schools across the United States, from low to high

When learning arithmetic, students were constantly told that they could not rely too heavily on calculators, as they would not always have one on hand in the future. Today that statement couldn’t be further from the truth. The widespread prevalence of portable electronic devices has allowed literally everyone to carry a calculator wherever they go. While technology has been rapidly changing and evolving in the past few decades, the school systems has almost stagnated and has shown nearly no change within 150 years. Based on a variety of expert anecdotal accounts, when students are asked what they think the purpose of the school system is for, most of them will reply that it’s either to prepare them for higher learning (university or college) and/or to prepare them for the workplace. However, much of the knowledge currently taught is becoming increasingly outdated. As schools are straying increasingly further from their intended purpose, changes ought to be made. This problem would be easily solved if technology is integrated into the teaching system. Moreover, by enhancing the learning environment with technology, students will be able to instantly access innumerable websites’ worth of information, use computers to lessen their workload, and gain the necessary skills to achieve success in their future work endeavors.

It acts an additional instructing tools for the teachers. Technology is a capable gadget that can reinforce and change preparing from various perspectives, from making it less requesting for teachers to make instructional materials to engaging new courses for students to learn and participate. The use of computers, smartboards gives more flexible i.e it permits a wide range of types of media – including photographs, outlines, maps, charts, recreations, and video, to be shown. These devices advance the classroom encounter as well as help to grow the idea of substance that can be utilized as a part of learning. Furthermore, SMART Boards makes figuring out how to be more powerful inferable from the diverse types of introducing data. Computers provides web access that enable the students to get diverse educational resources from everywhere throughout the world, accordingly

As a student in the modern era, where technology is at an all-time high everywhere I look technology is being introduced into a teacher's curriculum. Technology in school, although once banned it is now being praised to have technology intertwined with a school lesson. Everywhere I look people give up old habits such as keeping a planner because your phone now offers a new way to be organized in an easier and faster manner. One habit that students are giving up with this technological surge is taking notes by hand. Personally, I at one point tried to take notes on my laptop or even study pre-written notes, found myself distracted with such easy access to the internet. Consequently, I found my grades had become lower due to me not paying attention and not being able to truly grasp the lesson being taught. Eventually, I discovered that writing notes by hand benefited me immensely more and allowed me to try process the information being taught. In the article “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away” written by NPR staff member James Doubek, he illustrates why my grades had decreased during my time of writing notes on my laptop.

The problem of the slow student, teachers must make sure that students with poor study skills do not present an inferior report to the jigsaw group.

The current educational system is designed on the fifty year old premise that the teacher holds all the knowledge. With all the advancements in technology, a plethora of information and facts lies at our fingertips. With re envisioning the pace of education, students learn skills to find knowledge, dive deeper into their interests and still meet academic standards through intentional educational targets. Likewise in the old education, spaces are designed to facilitate students learning from the teacher only. Through introducing flexible seating, and a variety of learning centers, teachers and students can partner in their education and the focus will shift from a teacher centered classroom to one that is driven by collaboration. Lastly, our biggest constraint is time. We are governed by laws that dictate seat time, and schedules that tell

Despite its importance, writing is not given enough attention in schools compare to reading. Since the turn of the 21st century, “there have been a number of significant changes in the contexts in which we teach and in which our students learn to write”. Our culture has taken a digital shift in all aspects of life, including schooling and the way students are exposed to writing curriculum. Robinson, McKenna and Conradi state that “The context of schooling has also changed, with programs and practices affected most directly by an emphasis on standards and assessments as a part of a growing concern with accountability. Given a focus on reading, rather than writing or literacy more generally…this movement has had an impact on teaching and learning at all levels of public education” (Robinson, McKenna & Conradi, 2012, p. 243).

Technology is here to stay and appears to be ever advancing, but teachers are struggling to adapt with learning about the new software and tools that the districts are trying to implement into the curriculum. Teachers shape the minds of our future; thus making teaching the most important occupation in the world. In order to achieve maximum greatness in the classroom a teacher must be open to changing the methods in which they teach. With time, technology has seemed to shimmy its way into almost every aspect of the average American’s life; including the classroom. Technology is ever changing and with new advancements teachers must be able to adapt. The main issues that teachers as well as schools are facing with technology is the price of

The idea of futuristic smart classroom falls under the field of Intelligent Environment. Intelligent Environment may be defined as augmented area equipped with various technological items like computers, cells and sensors, batteries and internet devices. All these items are interconnected or networked into a system of computer logic and algorithms Changhao Jiang, C., Shi, Y., Xu, G. And Xie, W. (2010).