Is it possible/appropriate to hold educational technology
accountable for student learning gains and losses?
It is possible to hold technology accountable for student learning
because it is molding learning in a particular way. It is pulling the minds of
young children into a world where a necessity is placed upon an object created
by impure connections in the mind. This connection has created a learning
environment distracting students from pure values and knowledge, placing them
on material items. What is the purpose of technology? To save time that is also
created by man? To make the classroom more entertaining to increase motivation?
To provide support in engaging a full classroom of students? All of these
things ring back around on the issue of what our world has decided to hold as
our top priority. We have decided that technology makes things more efficient and
interesting; creating knowledge based system around man-made items. This has
taught our young to place their importance in a small scale outlook. This small
scale outlook does not allow students to broaden and expand their minds. Technology
is responsible for the losses of student learning, creating habits of
dependency. This creates an environment where one settles and is satisfied with
less than personal interaction.
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Your point of view takes the idea of student "losses" to another level - beyond test scores/measurable outcomes and into the realm of how technology is affecting our whole selves. A very interesting angle on which to focus!
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