Reflection
#3
It
was not difficult at all to answer some of the questions from the
article, because technology is a
huge part of my age group's world. The question "Can technology
improve education?", I definitely
think it could improve education, and not only education, but also your
careers after school. Just
because a job doesn't involve technology, doesn't mean that it will
always be like that. For example,
teachers 10 years ago didn't have to use technology in their
classroom. They had their black board, and
their attendance book. Now, however, teachers are required to
learn all kinds of technology because
they will be teaching with projectors, computers, and many different
computer programs.
For the question "How was technology used in my high
school?", I would say that my teachers didn't
really use anything other than a projector and a computer to take
attendance. We students were not
taught how to explore different programs on the computers. The
only thing we had to ever do was
write a paper and print it. I didn't learn anything more than
that until college. It's amazing to see how
the Barry students are already doing powerpoints, when I didn't even do
that until my 3rd year in
college.
Answering the question "Why has technology
consistently failed to impact education?", I would say
that some schools that are not in a very wealthy district, such as city
schools, do not get the technology given to them. Other times it
is because a teacher has it available in the classroom, but the
teacher does not know how to use it, which deprives the students of the
technology as well. Other times a teacher may have the technology
and use the technology, but it may not work right one day
and might mess up a lesson, because the teacher forgot to write an
alternative lesson plan in case the
technology did not work, so maybe the teacher got frustrated and viewed
the technology as more of a
pain in the neck as helpful.