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The prevalence of technology drastically affects many areas of society in positive ways, including education. Modern-day students not only have computers to help them with their schoolwork, they also use the Internet for research while teachers use technology to enhance their lessons.
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Research
If a school's library is outdated or lacking in a selection of titles, a student mightfind it difficult to compile the necessary research for an essay or research paper. As long as the school has a computer lab, students are able to use the Internet and digital encyclopedias to obtain the research they need. While students should be wary of the legitimacy of some of the content they read online, many schools use software like the Encyclopedia Britannica to help students doresearch.
Globalization
When schools in different parts of the state, country or world connect, students can "meet" their counterparts through video conferencing without leaving the classroom. Some sites, such as Glovico, are used to help students learn foreign languages online by pairing a group of students with a teacher from another country.
Educational Games
In younger grades, teachers exposechildren to computers through educational games. Instead of playing board games that focus on education, students can learn the basics of spelling, counting and other early educational lessons through computer games that make learning fun. Because many schools have at least one computer in each classroom, the teacher can make that computer a vital part of learning for young students.
DistanceEducation
In the past, students could take distance or continuing education classes, also called "correspondence courses," at community colleges and universities. After enrolling in a course of this style, a student would receive course documents in the mail and would be required to mail assignments to his teacher at the educational institution. The process could be long and complicated. Thanks totechnology, continuing education students can take courses over the Internet at their convenience.
Web Seminars
Not every school has the resources and budget to send its students on field trips related to the course of study. When this is the case, the students' education can suffer. But thanks to technology, students can use the Internet to virtually attend Web seminars put on by museums and othereducational institutions. NASA, for instance, offers a program that allows students to talk to astronauts in space.
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Neither MichaelWesch or Mark Bauerlein are fundamentally wrong.
How can neither be wrong if they, respectively, wrote blogs in this forum where one said technology in classrooms could really helpand the other said technology in classrooms has been proven again and again to be basically useless?
It’s simple really.
Technology for technology’s sake is not a cure in the classroom. But technology can be a part of the solution for our schools, provided it is implemented correctly.
Why Schools Struggle
One of the core reasons our schools struggle is that the way they teach and test do notmatch the way students learn.
It is perhaps an obvious point, but every individual learns differently. Setting aside the question of whether students today are digital natives and meaningfully different from students of a generation ago, we know every individual brings different interests and motivations to different subjects; we have different intelligences, aptitudes, and learning stylesdepending on the subject; and we all learn at different paces depending on the subject.
Given that we know this, we might expect schools to customize the way they teach and test. But we also know from our experiences that, with certain rare exceptions, they don’t do this much at all. You don’t need to take Wesch’s description for it. Just think back to your own experience. When a unit was over in your...