The Impose 'New Class War'

The overabundance of stimuli that comes from technology negatively affects the traditional classroom atmosphere and should be done away with. In the article “New Class(room) War: Teacher versus Technology” by Samuel G. Freedman, Freedman brings up the touchy subject of technology in the classroom setting and how numerous students and professors differ in their views concerning the use of technology.

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

In Samuel G. Freedman’s New York Times article, New Class(room) War: Teacher versus Technology, Freedman argues that technology is effecting the younger generations in a negative way inside of the classroom. He explains that while the baby boomer generation sees technology as a useful means for information and communication, the newer generations use technology for counterproductive means such as entertainment and socialization. While it is true that some people utilize technology for unproductive means, the majority of people in the classroom have the self-discipline to pay attention to the professor rather than their phone. Yes, some students may produce worse grades due to technology, but if they didn’t have the technology they would more than likely find a different way to waste time. Freedman exaggerates the issue by acting as if the majority of students are absent-mindedly on their phones during class. There will always be

Technology connects people from all corners of the world. Inventions like the web and the internet has been heralded as the greatest inventions of man. The twenty first century is a fast paced world, with information available at a person’s fingertips. With this new drastic change in society, advocates of education reformation, like Cathy Davidson, pushes for education to be more modernized. In her essay “Project Classroom Makeover”, she points out the outdated education system, and the benefits, technology can have on the failing American education system.

Change takes on the course of a gradual shift away from the traditional and into the modern. Such a process can take on the identity of many forms but in the end, they all contribute to the advancement of society. Throughout “Project Classroom Makeover,” Cathy Davidson explores the need for such change in America’s educational system as it lags years behind the modern standards. Technology serves as an impetus to change and reform this antiquated system through facilitating new means of learning not previously available. While technology does have its benefits in the classrooms, it cannot alone replace the interactions between students and teachers because there are limits to the extent computerization can recreate human connections.

It is important to identify parties or interest groups that have “skin” in the game. In other words, who are the stakeholders? As defined in project management doc.com, a stakeholder is a person or group of people who can affect or who can be affected by a given project or implementation of policy (Project Management, n.d.). The stakeholders in this case study include those in political positions, big business, concerned citizens, elite groups and those from the lower economic class. In the essay “The Masses against the Classes”, written by Ed Miliband (2012) contends that in order for a sound society to exist, the affluent and powerful must attend to the struggles of those outside of the elite class in order to maintain and survive (Miliband, 2012). Is it then, the position of Big-Mart as depicted in this case study to appear in an effort to save the struggling (classes) from the powerful elite masses? Is this

A teacher is standing at the front of any classroom in any school in America. She tells the class she wants the essay typed, and that they should use addition online sources in their paper. The bell rings and the students head to their next class. They will be watching an educational video on different kinds of chemical reactions. None of this would be possible without electronics. From the computer where the students will be tying their essay to the Promethean Board where they watched the video, technology is now a crucial part in teaching all across the U.S. The different kinds of media used to educate young people has expanded greatly through the use of electronics. “Shut Down Your Screen Week” is a movement attempting to deprive students of valuable technology in the futile hope that students will be less distracted. Although many people believe “Shut Down Your Screen Week” will be advantageous to students, Indian Ridge Middle School would benefit from not participating in the event.

As stated in “New Class (room) War,” the growth of technology instigates, “a new sort of generational divide between teacher and student…. separates those who want to use technology to grow smarter from those who want to use it to get dumber” (Freedman par. 10). The modern generation is losing the capability to comprehend a world without technology, which causes a dependence on the devices during all times of the day. This evolution of student’s mentality of reliance on technology causes problems within the classroom through the many distractions it produces, and ultimately causes a tense misunderstanding between professor and student. Differing perspectives on how technology could be ambiguously beneficial and detrimental in the learning environment morphs the disagreement between the student body and the professors.

Twenty-first century society is constantly presented with exciting advances in hardware and software technology. Use of technology in CCT 109 classrooms should be allowed to capitalize on these advances and challenge the learning status quo. Technology’s adoption encourages rethinking of how information is acquired and processed, how people learn, how they are empowered, what jobs will be in highest demand, and what the nature of learning and useful information is. With the increasing accessibility, affordability, and popularity of laptops and tablets, it is essential for students, professors, and institutions to welcome these devices in the classroom. Technology’s benefits to the professor, student, and society far outweigh any perceived disadvantages.

Have you been noticing that at your school, you have been making more of your actions with technology? As years go by, the technology world has been upgrading quite quickly. More devices have been becoming the paper to most schools. Sue Pimentel, a former English Language Arts professor, explained, “The decision was about priorities and that learning to use technology took procedence.”

Being the first true group of digital natives, it is no surprise that the children of Generation Z tend to take in information instantaneously and lose interest just as quickly, especially when it comes to learning in the classroom. Perhaps this is because few classrooms utilize any of the 21st century technologies that are often needed to maintain students’ interest, and for good reasons too. In many works of science fiction, technology is portrayed as inherently evil, and readers are often told stories of the the potential uses of technology that range from bizarre to troublesome, to downright horrendous. However, with so many new learning technologies being created and made available to the public, such as the 3D printer, touch-board electronic desks, virtual reality gear, and the entirely virtual classroom, which is still under development, students are soon going to see a change in not only the way they learn, but also in the physical look of their classrooms.

In the schools, “Technology demonstrates daily its practical value in classroom instruction, teacher and student research, improved school design and operation, increasing student interest and teacher scope, and interlinking the school and the globe” (Nelson, Palonsky, & McCarthy, 2013, p. 280). Hardly anyone uses chalkboards and textbook anymore, and teenagers, better known as “screenagers”, have a unique relationship with technology with or without it in the classroom.

In Kate Lunau’s article, “The touch-screen classroom: How technology can reinvent how and where children learn,” written for the website MacLean.ca’s in January 2012, Lunau details many reinventive ways technology is being used in grade school classrooms. The magazine, Macleans.ca, is a Canadian current affairs publication, which covers stories from the fields of international affairs, social issues, national politics, business and culture. Lunau’s main arguments in the article are that technology in the classroom has already changing how and where students learn and more changes will happen. Also, that these changes to the tools used to teach children, are not fundamentally bad. Within the article Lunau identifies several common negative concerns that parents and education administrators have on the idea of incorporating technology in the classroom. These concerns included that technology will distract students, it will promote cyber bullying and it will erode literacy skills. She addresses these concerns by introducing several strategies to mitigate and she offers several positive comments that may not be common in the conversation around technology in the classroom. The article was written for a popular news publication, therefore the analysis on how technology is changing how and where students learn is barely an overview and not a reliable qualitative study.

Technology has revolutionized the human experience by changing the way one learns. Technology can best be defined as a tool that supports and promotes human learning. This can be seen through the usage of calculators, tablets (example: iPad), Smart Boards, video cameras, and, of course, the computer. These are all innovations that can have a profound impact on classroom learning. Although there are some schools that have a strict policy that technology should be removed from the modern day classroom, other schools believe that integrating technology into the classroom helps prepare our students for the elaborate world they will face going forward. Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on the technology policy and how it has a positive

My father-in-law, Cameron, was born in 1920 in the small Quaker community of Salem, Ohio. He and his younger sister, Elma, grew up attending the one-room schoolhouse in their village. Children in the first grade through eighth attended this schoolhouse and shared only one teacher. During this time technology was limited to a pencil and paper, and chalk and slate. In just a few generations, we see today’s modern classroom as a vastly different environment. Educators now regularly incorporate the use of laptops, digital projectors/Smart Boards, tablets/iPads, Chromebooks, and digital cameras as well as mobile phone devices and iPods. These hardware devices also supply a continuous development of software and applications to be used