My educational issuse is does technology effect learning in the classroom?
The reason why I am asking this question is because i grew up in a city that was always behind in technolgy. We never had the projectors or the black boards etc. Are classrooms held over thirty kids and the teachers barely knew everybodys name. I know it sounds kind of bad but it actaully was not as bad as it sounds! For example my high school was so old that everything leaked the doors didnt lock kind of "ghetto" i guess you could say. But as i graduated high school of course a brand new high school was built the following year with all the blackboards and the automatic locking doors! I guess you could say i kind of lucked out on the new teachnology part of things. Although i do believe because my commuinty was a poor community without the proper equipment and books it made it hard to compete with schools in a riched community with all the books and proper equipment to teach. Example of this is the mcas test, my school was one of the lower scoring schools compared to schools say in Reading or Davers, which are the richer communities.
In the article i found it states that "It should be among our top priorties to provide our students with the tooks they need to maintain and build upon this standing"(Sutton) Which is exactly how i feel with out the top technology and teaching strategies how would you expect students to do there very best at all times. Providing students with new books, and new advances in technolgy should be a top priority in are state. The students in our schools our are future and without the proper equipment it make its harder for students to advance and compete against other students who have such equpiment. It is also said and stated in the article that "The US Congress has given the go ahead for a new centre to explore ways advanced computer and communication technologies can imporve learning."(Bonnie Tracy Sutton) Which is also proving and working on proving that infact technologies do improve students learning.
Name of article :Teachers to blame? I dont think so.. Look more closely at the poltics of Education
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton
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