2-At school technology starts to turn a corner
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17essay.html
Newspaper: The New York Times
By STEVE LOHR
Published: August 16, 2008
There is an increasing tendency to the belief that the use of high tech tools in the class may be the best way to teach and to learn since technology encourages students to study more and more. Virtual reality, the internet, scanners and printers allow the students to study easily through pictures, to have access to diverse information in a fast way and to present their researches with the help of visual supports. The author of this reflexive essay dealing with technology and its benefits clearly reflects the opinion that the use of technology transforms education.
What’s more there are many pedagogical approaches that make the best of the use of technology in the class; one of them is the project based approach. The approach gives the students the freedom to research on their account and to present their classes with riveting content and visual aids. It is also said that this approach prepares students for globalization and technological changes. Students must know the world they would find when they come out from high school. Students must be ready and well prepared to face this technological era. They have to know how to handle high tech tools. As a result, students have a better performance in class while they are still at school and then, in the everyday world and labour market.
Some others do not agree with the use of technology because they are continually pointing out that they can not afford a computer. However many individuals have this idea; it’s just an excuse since there is a wide open variety of computer trades that are even cheaper than ten years ago. Personal credits are also a simpler way to afford technology if it is still considered that expensive. The author suggests that exposing that technology is no affordable is due to the ignorance of those who reject to learn how they should use technology.
Now, technology and its benefits have its costs but not that much in comparison to the price of what students learn; this has no price. The extra cost is $1000 per student a year. The price may vary from country to country according to the value of money in each country. Many countries may consider expensive especially those who have no access to technology in an equitative way. Generally, in poor countries the elite are the only ones who can afford to have technology at their schools. A raw reality but unfortunately, that’s reality.
To sum up, the author encourages the use of technology as a help in classrooms to prepare the students to the new technological reality they will face after they get their secondary degree.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17essay.html
Newspaper: The New York Times
By STEVE LOHR
Published: August 16, 2008
There is an increasing tendency to the belief that the use of high tech tools in the class may be the best way to teach and to learn since technology encourages students to study more and more. Virtual reality, the internet, scanners and printers allow the students to study easily through pictures, to have access to diverse information in a fast way and to present their researches with the help of visual supports. The author of this reflexive essay dealing with technology and its benefits clearly reflects the opinion that the use of technology transforms education.
What’s more there are many pedagogical approaches that make the best of the use of technology in the class; one of them is the project based approach. The approach gives the students the freedom to research on their account and to present their classes with riveting content and visual aids. It is also said that this approach prepares students for globalization and technological changes. Students must know the world they would find when they come out from high school. Students must be ready and well prepared to face this technological era. They have to know how to handle high tech tools. As a result, students have a better performance in class while they are still at school and then, in the everyday world and labour market.
Some others do not agree with the use of technology because they are continually pointing out that they can not afford a computer. However many individuals have this idea; it’s just an excuse since there is a wide open variety of computer trades that are even cheaper than ten years ago. Personal credits are also a simpler way to afford technology if it is still considered that expensive. The author suggests that exposing that technology is no affordable is due to the ignorance of those who reject to learn how they should use technology.
Now, technology and its benefits have its costs but not that much in comparison to the price of what students learn; this has no price. The extra cost is $1000 per student a year. The price may vary from country to country according to the value of money in each country. Many countries may consider expensive especially those who have no access to technology in an equitative way. Generally, in poor countries the elite are the only ones who can afford to have technology at their schools. A raw reality but unfortunately, that’s reality.
To sum up, the author encourages the use of technology as a help in classrooms to prepare the students to the new technological reality they will face after they get their secondary degree.
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